Product & Process Implementation; PPI Manager - Wet

Overview

The Product & Process Implementation (PPI) Manager - Wet is responsible to deploy R&D specifications needed for manufacturing of WET products on existing manufacturing standards and for new technology to achieve process specifications conformance and finished product specifications conformance.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s or in Engineering, Food Science, or a related technical field or equivalent
• Demonstrated industry experience as R&D engineer or Quality & Food Safety Engineer
• 2+ years of experience in a people leadership role, with demonstrated ability to develop and engage a technical team.

• 2-3 years relevant experiences in food technology development, process & product scale-up and/or implementation
• Working in a company with multicultural and international features

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Food Science, or a related technical field
• Green belt or Black belt for Lean 6-Sigma is a plus

• 5+ years relevant experiences in food technology development, process & product scale-up and/or implementation
• Proven track record of leading complex industrialization or commercialization projects from pilot to full-scale production
• Project Management experience

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Lead, develop, and engage a WET PPI team, building deep technical capability, accountability, and a strong performance culture.
• Role‑model Mars leadership behaviors, ensuring clarity of expectations, regular feedback, and growth of future leaders.
• Deliver technical training to site teams on process principles, product quality, and performance standards.

• Translate R&D and Quest (our long-term innovation pipeline) strategies into clear regional Wet industrialization priorities.
• Own delivery outcomes across the manufacturing network, ensuring disciplined execution and measurable business impact.

• Own the deployment and sustained conformance of Wet product, process, and raw material specifications.
• Safeguard food safety, quality, and performance in line with Royal Canin standards and the Mars Quality principle.
• Follow and enforce pre-requisite actions for process validation as a requirement for Hand Over 0 (HO0) signature.

• Lead regional industrial risk assessment and decision-making for new materials, processes, products, and technologies.
• Lead complex problem solving (troubleshooting level
  2) related to raw material, product and process.
• Drive robust, data‑based decisions to enable compliant, resilient, and scalable implementations.
• Own the Hand Over 1 (HO1) signature for small/minor projects and support the Global Technology Specialist on major projects.

• Act as the regional R&D leader for Wet industrialization, driving innovation scale‑up, portfolio transfers, and critical regional initiatives.
• Implement robust processes for commissioning, capturing learnings, and establishing repeatable, best-practice ways of working.

• Build strong, trust‑based partnerships with Quality, Food Safety, Regulatory, Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning, and Commercial teams.
• Enable seamless execution through alignment, clarity of roles, and shared accountability.
• R&D representative for the Commissioning, Validation, and Start-Up (CVS) process.
• Support CVS and PPI teams with on-site protocol execution.

• Shape the future of Wet technology by contributing expertise and key learnings to global R&D and PPI communities.
• Proactively strengthen future deployments by investing in team capability and establishing a knowledge transfer framework.

• 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.
• 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.

Mars does not sponsor visas for this role.