What are we looking for?   

• Ideal candidate profile: A highly organized, analytically strong portfolio/program manager who can bring structure to ambiguity, manage recurring governance routines, synthesize complex project information into clear recommendations, drive follow-through across a matrixed organization, and coordinate (and potentially manage) a small team supporting portfolio execution.  

• Business experience: 5-8 years of experience in portfolio management, program management, PMO operations, financial/savings tracking, strategic planning, change management, or similar roles in a complex, matrixed organization.  

• Governance and process discipline: Familiarity with Stage Gate, project intake, scoping, and other governance processes, including process discipline, required fields, documentation standards, and consistent application across teams.  

• Analytical capabilities: Experience using project data, savings assumptions, timing, risk, and resource inputs to support scenario modeling, prioritization, investment analysis, portfolio trade-off discussions, dashboards, summaries, and leadership-ready materials.  

• Communication and influence: Strong stakeholder engagement, change management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across levels, simplify complex portfolio trade-offs, and reinforce follow-through through concise, data-driven storytelling.  

• Working style: Comfortable working in ambiguity and shifting priorities, with strong organization, ownership, attention to detail, bias for action, and a continuous improvement mindset.  

• Tools and systems: Experience with portfolio, savings, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Sopheon Accolade/PPM, Sievo, Excel, Power Query, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, project trackers, and action logs.  

What will be your responsibilities?  

• Portfolio analysis and prioritization: Lead and support scenario modeling, prioritization views, and portfolio analysis to evaluate Value Leadership pipeline options, including impact, feasibility, savings potential, timing, risk, and resource trade-offs.  

• Decision support and storytelling: Translate portfolio analytics, project updates, and reporting outputs into clear recommendations and senior leader communications on portfolio health, value delivery, escalation needs, and open decisions.  

• Governance and operating rhythm: Support recurring Value Leadership project reviews, action tracking, decision documentation, escalation follow-up, and consistent use of the portfolio single source of truth.  

• Process adoption: Act as a change agent for portfolio processes, including idea management, DVF/project intake, recurring review routines, standard reporting practices, and non-consumer-facing Stage Gate deployment.  

• Capability building and knowledge management: Strengthen portfolio management capability through playbooks, onboarding materials, process guidance, recurring routines, documentation standards, and shared knowledge repositories.  

• Tool and process improvement: Identify portfolio tool, reporting, and process gaps; map continuous-improvement opportunities; and partner with technology, data, finance, and functional teams to deliver practical improvements.  

• Team and stakeholder coordination: Lead or indirectly guide project managers, workstream owners, coordinating priorities, clarifying ownership, tracking actions, and reinforcing accountability.  

What can you expect from Mars?  

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.  

• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.  

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.  

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.