TPM PMO lead

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

This role comprises the following key responsibilities:

• Project Management: Coordinate the end-to-end implementation of the TPM solution within a market, ensuring timely and successful execution while aligning with business objectives and other dependencies
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Finance, IT, and other key stakeholders to manage overall program timelines, activities, and communication activities
• Training & Change Management: Provide inputs on key business timelines for training, change management activities, and communication strategies to ensure smooth user adoption and minimize disruption to business operations
• Status Reporting & Issue Resolution: Manage all project risks, issues, actions, and decisions, and escalate as required to responsible teams in the overall program rollout. Manage corresponding status and facilitate cadences for project updates
• Continuous Improvement: Develop and monitor program delivery KPIs across timelines, budget, business case tracking, and overall user adoption for inclusion in leadership status updates

As the leader of the SRM Trade Promotion Management deployment, the role collaborates closely with GMs, Sales Heads, CFOs, local SRM and Sales Finance leaders to deliver against the value creation plan in OEs

Context and Scope

• This role serves as the primary point of contact for the India TPM rollout, coordinating between the Global Pet Nutrition SRM Team and local market / deployment teams, ensuring overall TPM deployment success via stakeholder management, risk management and mitigation, status reporting, and overall ownership of TPM delivery success metrics for the program
• Scope of the role to include:
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Risk identification and mitigation
  • Integrated project planning across several workstreams and business functions
  • Identification & prioritization of key program dependencies
    • This role interacts and aligns across all functions of the organization to drive the full execution of trade promotion management system solution. This role will collaborate with senior global stakeholders and Mars Operating Entity leadership teams to deliver enterprise internal and external KPIs
    • Influencing and Stakeholder management are critical to the success of this role
    • This role will require strong collaboration across Regional CIO Organization, global product teams, IT teams data & analytics teams, and business teams
    • Executive presence and strong communication skills

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.