Associate Health & Wellbeing Effectiveness Lead at Mars, Incorporated in Hackettstown, New Jersey

Job Description:

Job Description:

What are we looking for?
The Associate Health & Wellbeing (AH&WB) Effectiveness Lead is responsible for supporting key stakeholders internally (AH&WB team) and externally to design, implement, embed and govern the Mars' health strategy to ensure that we fulfill our commitments.This role will work across the regional AH&WB portfolio of services such as occupational health management, clinical services, population health management, and own wellbeing programming to drive effectiveness in the region.

This role will co-develop, plan, execute, and govern multiple work streams and projects to ensure delivery on time and within budget. Additionally, this role is expected to act as a co-pilot on content, partner with the Senior H&WB Managers on the team as required and think critically (and pro-actively) about how to accelerate and embed the regional health and wellbeing program in the business.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Responsible for the overall delivery of key projects impacting the regional team, keeping all work streams and initiatives on track, and maintaining appropriate sense of urgency and relevance while providing timely updates to key stakeholders.


• Build and manage relationships with 3rd party vendors, contractors and suppliers to advance the health and wellbeing agenda


• Drives alignment between the global AH&WB strategy and the regional strategy to ensure that the region is executing on the priorities that have been set


• Facilitate the project plan development:


• Ensure that appropriate priorities are set, and that key initiatives and actions are clearly articulated using good quality project charters, clearly scoped and 'resourced to win' with the right people


• Coach or support others in defining and delivering challenging project initiatives, doing a "deep dive" on content of any work stream as needed.


• Manage the work streams scope through a standardized way of working to ensure consistent project disciplines are applied to individual initiatives and activities (e.g., clear deliverables and milestones)


• Ensure excellent execution


• Manage the regional program agenda & activities, coordinate and integrate inputs and outputs, track progress through dashboards and metrics


• Co-develop the methodology and target setting exercise for regional priorities and advance project management governance and reporting capabilities.


• Ensure appropriate leadership focus and intervention to remain on time and on budget and that risks are recognized and resolved.


• Establish governance for processes


• Maintain the knowledge capture system through clear and effective documentation to build project management capability across the region


• Manage the regional portfolio and ensure the appropriate mitigations are in place to address risks


• Represent the regional AH&WB team internally and externally with key stakeholders, industry groups and peer organizations as needed.


• Manages the communications specialist responsible for developing and deploying the messaging that drives participation and engagement in advancing the health and wellbeing agenda


• Manages the AH&WB Operations Analyst who is responsible for technology operations and enablement of tools designed to drive efficiency and effectiveness


• Manage the Leave Management vendor and the internal leaves team responsible for handling escalations

• Undergraduate degree in business, management or a healthcare discipline is required; Master's degree preferred.


• Certification(s): Project Management Professional (PMP) or other project management related certifications a plus


• Prior PMO experience required, with demonstrated ability to execute standard project management skills (e.g. developing work plan and tracking milestones, preparing reports, managing a budget etc.)


• Must be able to demonstrate a history of driving a regional team to implement a plan and influence critical stakeholders as well as subject matter experts from functions.


• Demonstrated history of translating data insights into action


• Occupational health and wellbeing experience desirable


• Strong analytical and problems solving skills.

• Work with over 150,000 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.