We're looking for passionate collaborators to help us become the foremost leader in Mars Snacking and positively impact society along the way. If you're looking to be a part of an inspiring, energetic and entrepreneurial environment, you've found the right place. 

What You’ll Do

As the Senior Manager R&D for Nature's Bakery, you will lead product development activities while providing advanced technical leadership for product innovation, solving complex problems, and building functional capability across the portfolio. You will serve as the technical leader for a team of three direct reports, guiding their professional development and managing resource allocation, while remaining actively engaged on the benchtop leading and developing high-impact innovation and renovation projects. This role operates with high autonomy and is accountable for technical delivery, prioritization, risk management, and associate development.  

What will be your key responsibilities? 

• Set team priorities, direct product development activities, allocate work, manage delivery trade-offs, and coach up to three direct reports. 
• Plan and execute technical work to deliver product innovation, formulation, prototyping, product quality, scale-up, and commercialization readiness against project objectives, timelines, quality, safety, and compliance expectations. 
• Use data, experimentation, risk assessment, and technical judgment to make recommendations and resolve complex issues. 
• Partner with cross-functional teams including R&D, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, commercial, regulatory, and external partners. 
• Document assumptions, specifications, methods, decisions, learnings, and handoffs in accordance with governance requirements. 
• Lead complex investigations, establish best practices, influence technical strategy, develop talent, and ensure effective team performance. 

What are we looking for? 

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Nutrition, or a related technical discipline. 
• 10-12+ years of experience with recognized product-development expertise, complex project leadership, and demonstrated people leadership. 
• Deep expertise in product innovation, formulation, ingredient functionality, prototyping, product testing, scale-up, quality systems, and commercialization readiness. 
• Strong capability in technical strategy, experiment planning, data analysis, risk assessment, and technical documentation. 
• Proven ability to lead complex programs, direct team execution, develop standards or best practices, and make risk-based technical recommendations. 
• Flexibility to travel to laboratories, pilot plants, manufacturing sites, suppliers, or consumer/market learning locations as needed. 

What You Can Expect from Mars 

• Work with 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. 
• A strong focus on learning and development from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. 
• An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus.