Mars Inc

Product & Process Implementation (PPI) Manager - Wet

Mars Inc • $85K — $110K *
North Sioux City, SD 57049In-Person
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Food Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience as R&D engineer or Quality & Food Safety Engineer.
  • 2+ years in a people leadership role, capable of developing a technical team.
  • 2-3 years in food technology development or product scale-up.
  • Experience in a multicultural and international company.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a WET PPI team for technical capability and performance culture.
  • Model leadership behaviors and ensure clarity of expectations for team growth.
  • Deliver technical training on processes and quality standards to site teams.
  • Translate R&D strategies into Wet industrialization priorities regionally.
  • Own outcome delivery across manufacturing, ensuring execution and business impact.
  • Deploy and ensure compliance with Wet product and process specifications.
  • Lead industrial risk assessment and decision-making for new technologies.

Benefits

  • Work with diverse, talented colleagues guided by core principles.
  • Join a purpose-driven company focused on building a better future.
  • Access to best-in-class learning and development opportunities.
  • Industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including bonuses.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

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.

What are we looking for?

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?

Leads Self & Others
  • 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.


Delivers Results
  • 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.


Ensures Quality & Safety
  • 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.


Decision Quality & Managing Complexity
  • 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.


Leads Change & Industrialization
  • 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.


Collaborates & Balances Stakeholders
  • 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.


Thinks Long Term
  • 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.


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.


Mars does not sponsor visas for this role.

About Mars Inc

Mars, Incorporated is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products. It was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Mars operates in six business segments: Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, and Symbioscience. Some of its most popular brands include M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Skittles, and Pedigree. The company is known for its commitment to sustainability and has set a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 67% by 2050.
Learn more about Mars Inc
Size
125,000 employees
Industry
Food & Beverages
Founded
1911
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