Marketing Acceleration Manager

Job Description:

Marketing Acceleration Manager

The Marketing Acceleration Manager acts as the connective tissue across the Marketing organization, partnering closely with senior leaders to ensure strategic priorities are translated into action. This role provides the coordination, planning, and organizational leadership needed to keep key initiatives on track, align teams around common goals, and drive accountability across the function. Rather than owning a single area of Marketing, this position helps optimize how the entire organization operates and delivers results.

Working at the intersection of strategy, operations, capability development, and organizational effectiveness, the Marketing Acceleration Manager helps leaders maximize the impact of their teams. From managing planning cycles and leadership forums to driving capability-building programs and organization-wide engagement initiatives, this role enables Marketing to operate with greater focus, alignment, and effectiveness while accelerating progress against business objectives.

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field; MBA preferred.

• 5+ years of experience in Marketing, Sales, Marketing Operations, Strategy, or related commercial functions within the CPG/FMCG industry.

• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional projects and organizational initiatives, with the ability to influence stakeholders, drive alignment, and deliver results in complex environments.

• Strong understanding of marketing strategy, business planning, organizational effectiveness, and change management with the ability to solve complex problems and navigate ambiguity.

• Experience developing and implementing capability-building programs, training initiatives, and best practice sharing to improve organizational performance.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, project management, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across all levels of the organization.

• Strategic mindset with a passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and delivering measurable business impact.

What Will Be Your Key Responsibilities?

• Strategic Priority Acceleration - Drive visibility, alignment, and execution of Marketing's highest-priority initiatives, ensuring teams remain focused on key business objectives. Partner across stakeholders to identify risks, manage dependencies, remove barriers, and maintain momentum against strategic goals.

• Organizational Planning & Operating Rhythm - Lead the coordination of the Marketing organizations operating rhythm, including annual planning cycles, business reviews, leadership forums, and key cross-functional meetings. Ensure priorities, decisions, and action plans are effectively communicated, aligned, and executed while supporting strong leadership team operations and decision-making.

• Functional Modernization & Capability Acceleration - Own the Marketing learning and development agenda, including onboarding, capability-building programs, training initiatives, external learning opportunities, and best-practice sharing. Help accelerate adoption of future-ready marketing capabilities, tools, and ways of working across the organization.

• Marketing Engagement & Experiences - Design and deliver impactful Marketing-wide events and experiences, including offsites, town halls, recognition programs, and other initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration, culture, and cross-functional connectivity across the organization.

• Functional Health, Visibility & Continuous Improvement - Develop meaningful reporting and visibility tools that track priorities, milestones, capabilities, and organizational health. Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve knowledge sharing, strengthen collaboration, reduce duplication, and enhance overall organizational performance and effectiveness.

What can you 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.

• 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.