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Mars UK • Aimargues, Gard, France

EOS Purchasing Business Process Owner F/M/X

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top 3 scores:
94%

Location flexibility

91%

Hours flexibility

90%

Autonomy

Job Description

Job Description:

Royal Canin’s mission is to transform each cat and dogs’ health and well-being by pushing the limits of nutrition and knowledge in partnership with pet professionals. Through our products and services, we serve almost half a billion pets every year, and through our global scale, passionate Associates, knowledge, and capabilities we help shape the future of pet care.

To make our ambitions a reality, Royal Canin is undertaking a major business transformation focusing on end-to-end business processes, people, and data, enabled by technology. Through this transformation we are aiming to reinvent our core processes, adapting our data models and tech platforms while focusing on enhancing the experience for users, customers, and our Associates.

The business transformation includes initiatives focusing on protecting business continuity to create a more efficient, easy, and sustainable organization of work. The outcomes of this transformation will result in an excellent level of service that will drive competitive advantage, easy-to-do business for our customers and consumers, improved operations that increase Associate wellbeing, as well as processes and capabilities to power our health through nutrition business while enabling sustainable growth.

Are you a Commercial and/or Inbound Supply professional with a passion for driving value through process design and technology? Do you thrive in transformative environments where you can make a real impact? We are seeking a Mars associate to join the EOS program and build our next generation Procurement processes and digital capabilities, working on our global business transformation that contributes to Royal Canin's Purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. Working on the transformation will allow you to drive strategic initiatives that will revolutionize the way we do business.

What are we looking for?

  • Business or Engineering School Degree
  • + 10 years’ experience in Commercial and Inbound Supply roles

    Deep expertise in procurement operations, ideally built both at Royal Canin and across other Mars divisions, or from previous roles at other companies

  • Knowledge and interest for process design and process improvement

  • Experience working with distributed multi-cultural teams

  • Knowledge of the Royal Canin ERP ecosystem and/or knowledge of SAP

What will be your key responsibilities?

  • Owns the Royal Canin global Direct Purchasing end-to-end processes.
  • Works with the MDM vendor domain owner, providing functional inputs, to build the direct vendors data model.
  • Has direct accountability for process design and for building system capabilities to efficiently run procurement operations, as well as supporting regional EOS deployments.
  • Partners with Royal Canin business stakeholders to capture and document pain points, functional gaps and business requirements, informing fit-for-purpose process modeling.
  • Partners with a wide range of stakeholders across Mars segments and corporate functions to drive the design, development and configuration of standard best-practice global business capabilities.
  • Orchestrates EOS template design/build activities with the program business and system integrators to ensure timely project delivery.
  • Provides guidance and functional expertise for the functional area in scope.
  • Ensures new template solutions are fully tested and signed off.
  • Ensures knowledge of new processes Is effectively transferred to the trainers In charge of end user training and works with the EOS Change Experience Management team to support change management activities and drive adoption of new system capabilities.

What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with over 140,000 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.

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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.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps

We asked employees of Mars UK what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
94%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
91%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
84%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
80%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
81%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
90%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
75%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
78%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
86%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
84%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
70%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Mars UK

Company employees

4,000 In the UK

Gender diversity (male:female)

57:43

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Awards & Achievements

1st – Large companies

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Flexa100 2024
Consumer Goods

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Industry awards 2023
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Flexa100 2023
Retail & Ecommerce

Retail & Ecommerce

Industry awards 2022