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Mars UK • London, London, United Kingdom

Global Climate Data Manager, Petcare Innovation

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top 3 scores:
94%

Location flexibility

91%

Hours flexibility

90%

Autonomy

Job Description

Job Description:

Job Purpose & Overview

The Global Climate Data Manager, Petcare Innovation will work with a cross-functional team of R&D and Commercial associates to provide support in assessing the climate impacts of our raw materials. This work ensures the link between sustainability objectives and our business decision-making, ensuring that sustainability data is accessible for R&D and strategic sourcing and teams, and enabling lower carbon footprint innovation.

Role responsibilities include raw ingredient Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis, emissions factor development, and supporting supplier sustainability initiatives. The position requires technical knowledge in LCA, experience developing new business processes, as well as strong stakeholder management skills. The ideal candidate will be a data-driven, adaptable critical thinker who can maintain collaborative relationships with our regional teams, global teams, and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

1) Evaluate Supplier LCAs

Responsible for working with active and prospective raw material suppliers to gather and evaluate LCA / carbon footprint data. This includes critically reviewing data against relevant internal and external standards, identifying opportunities for data improvement, and identifying opportunities for impact reduction. The associate must have a foundational knowledge of agricultural and/or manufacturing emissions sources and be comfortable engaging directly with suppliers around data quality requirements.

2) Generate & Validate Emissions Factors

Provide support in creating raw materials emissions factors based on primary and secondary data, leveraging supplier data and internal LCA software. Emissions factors to be generated will range from exploratory figures to guide decision-making to final validated emissions factors used in official climate reporting. The associate must be able to balance speed with rigor in order to deliver reliable figures in a timely manner.

3) Drive Process Efficiency

Internal stakeholder demand for this custom emissions factors has increased dramatically over the past several years. This role will continually pinpoint opportunities for improvement in the request and fulfillment processes around new or improved emissions factors, and will proactively propose new ways of working to streamline communication and expedite delivery.

4) LCA and Carbon Accounting Support

In addition to the primary responsibilities outlined, this role will serve as one of the segment technical experts on LCA and carbon accounting and will be expected to support ad hoc requests related to these topics in accordance with available bandwidth.

Job Qualifications

  • Degree in business, engineering, food science, data science, or a sustainability-related topic

  • 4 years’ experience working in a quantitative data analysis field or discipline, with a focus on environmental sustainability, climate, and/or sustainable sourcing

  • Demonstrated experience evaluating and/or authoring LCAs, with a focus on agricultural or industrial products

  • Working understanding of LCA/climate accounting standards and practices

  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to translate key aspects of LCA to various non-sustainability audiences, with patience and creativity

  • Ability to facilitate data driven discussions to influence business strategy and growth

  • Ability to work flexibly with global teams across different time zones

  • Occasional travel may be required

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.

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
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Flexible working week
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
LinkedIn learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

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

Currently Hiring Countries

Denmark

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Ireland

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United Kingdom

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Office Locations

Awards & Achievements

1st – Large companies

1st – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
Consumer Goods

Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023
3rd – Large companies

3rd – Large companies

Flexa100 2023
Retail & Ecommerce

Retail & Ecommerce

Industry awards 2022