Job Abstract

Mclean, VA

This role will be the central point of contact for the corporate division for talent data related matters.  This role will partner with Corporate HR Business Partners (BPs) enabling them to lead progressive, meaningful Management Development Review (MDR) processes to supporting business succession planning for senior roles.  Working to assure divisional interdependencies for Corporate’s Global functions.

It will provide support for Talent Development Review (TDR) content and analysis and the interconnection of annual Performance Development Process (PDP) data in order to manage the respective talent pipelines more efficiently, proactively, and consistently. This position is responsible for maintain Talent process capability building for HR BPs, Line Managers and others as relevant.  It will also be involved in demand planning in line with the Mars Inc. standard talent processes along with being an escalation channel for talent queries that are submitted to the HR shared service team (MyP&O). 

This role will also drive delivery of HR data analytics for all Corporate functions.  Supporting strategic projects such as Equality, Inclusion & Diversity (EI&D) this role will drive the continuous improvement agenda for business insight generation with quality and availability of relevant data points to optimize data based decision making within the Corporate HR team.

What are we looking for? 

• 3 to 4 years of work experience within the talent arena
• Ability to turn data into trends and insights that will support the global talent agenda
• External perspective and a continuous improvement mindset to drive challenge into existing process and drive for iterative improvements
• Excellent skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BI, Data Analytics tools
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills (high degree of political savvy)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and readjust work priorities in a dynamic environment: knowing when to make tradeoffs, escalate, engage a third parties for help, etc.
• Customer insights analysis experience is a nice to have
• Experience improving and managing customer focused organization solutions
• Dealing with Senior Leaders on a day to day basis

What will be your key responsibilities? 

Talent Partner for Corporate

• Support Corporate HRBPs, Global Talent Centre of Expertise (COE) partners, Learning teams and EI&D COE to pinpoint and analyze talent challenges, starting from what Corporate wants to accomplish in terms of business goals

• Ensure that Corporate HRBPs, Senior Leaders and Line Managers are aware of and are able to role model the up-to-date global talent management processes and materials and are able to utilize them
• Provide relevant talent trends, analysis and insights to feed the talent strategy
• Partner with Corporate HRBPs, Global Talent COE, Learning and EI&D COE to take the data provided on succession planning and functional talent pool planning and drive relevant segment and x-segment insights and initiatives
• Support other talent activities and priorities as becomes evident from the segment demand planning and priority setting, including ad hoc analytics and insights.

Talent Analytics and Insights

• Provide relevant talent trends, analysis and insights to feed the talent strategy
• Partner with Corporate HRBPs, Global Talent COE, Learning and EI&D COE to take the data provided on succession planning and functional talent pool planning and drive relevant segment and x-segment insights and initiatives
• Support other talent activities and priorities as becomes evident from the segment demand planning and priority setting, including ad hoc analytics and insight

Talent Management Process Deployment

• Drive Corporate’s deployment of Mars Inc. talent signature processes utilized within the Talent Management space (i.e. MDR, PDP, TDR)
• Work with the Global Talent COE on Mars Inc. signature Talent processes (i.e. MDR, PDP, TDR) and other talent management related strategic initiatives in order to support training, implementation and assist with the regional/global planning and execution
• Collaborate between Corporate HRBPs, Global Talent team, Learning team and EI&D COE and others to be the subject matter expert (SME) to support other talent management activities and priorities as becomes evident from demand planning

P&O Analytics and Insights

• Provide relevant trends, analysis, insights to feed the Corporate HR team’s strategic priority projects
• Partner with HRBPs to understand the business objectives and drive the use of the most relevant data strategies to support insight generation relevant to the work initiatives
• Support the data agenda in projects and programs to represent the interests of HR as a SME to drive the acquisition of relevant internal and external data points e.g. EI&D data in support of diversity agenda.

What can you expect from Mars? 

• Work with over 130,000 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. 
• Chance to work on world-renowned brands such as m&m’s, Ben’s Original, Pedigree and Royal Canin within Mars Canada. ?
• 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.  

Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site. 

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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.