Growth Science Practice Lead

Nashville, TN (Unknown)

$170K/yr – $234K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own and evolve the enterprise growth flywheel and its learning cycles to enable cross divisional adoption of growth science and scalable capability products.

  • Lead the evolving enterprise operating model and learning cycle to turn data into action.
  • Drive cross divisional adoption by embedding Growth Science into local planning.
  • Translate complex marketing science into practical, repeatable tools and playbooks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Evolve the Enterprise Operating Model: Align, operate, and continuously evolve the Mars Growth Flywheel that captures evidence, synthesizes learning, and feeds it back into better commercial decisions.
  • Architect the Systematic Learning Cycle: Build and run the end-to-end process that moves learning from data on a page into adoption, impact measurement, and continuous improvement.
  • Drive Harmonization over Standardization: Lead the harmonization of growth model scorecards, balancing scale efficiencies with specific divisional nuances across Mars key business segments of Snacking, Petcare, and Food Nutrition.
  • Build the Enterprise Evidence Base: Create and maintain a living, centralized database of cross-segment Flywheel insights to identify patterns that individual markets cannot see on their own.
  • Accelerate Cross-Divisional Adoption: Work closely with Insights leads in the business segments to embed Growth Science directly into local commercial planning cycles, shifting teams from passive dashboard viewers to active practitioners of the growth process.
  • Develop Scalable Capability Products: Partner with analytical and methodological experts to translate complex marketing science into practical, repeatable products including playbooks, decision frameworks, training, and/or AI-enabled knowledge tools.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Data Science, Economics, Behavioral Sciences, or a related field.
  • Global Marketing Insights Experience: 8 years of progressive global experience in Marketing, Brand Management, Marketing Analytics, Consumer Insights, or Marketing Transformation.
  • Empirical Growth Theory Expertise: Expert-level mastery of evidence-based marketing laws, specifically the frameworks of Byron Sharp (How Brands Grow) and Jenni Romaniuk (Building Distinctive Brand Assets), with the strategic capability to operationalize concepts like Mental/Physical Availability and Light Buyer acquisition models.
  • Change Management Collaboration: Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a proven track record of leading large-scale change management, organizational design, and navigating highly matrixed global divisions.
  • Process Engineering Systems Thinking: A demonstrated ability to build, scale, and operationalize end-to-end business workflows that drive technology, tool, and methodology adoption across decentralized, matrixed multi-market teams.
  • Inspirational Communication EQ: High emotional intelligence with the ability to simplify highly complex marketing science into practical, intuitive guidance for local brand managers and business leaders.
  • Tech AI Acceleration: Pragmatic mindset with an openness to leverage AI and advanced technologies to accelerate organizational learning velocity.

Preferred

  • Deep experience in the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) / FMCG industry.
  • Hands-on experience with the integration of acquired global brands or teams

Benefits

  • 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.
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$170K/yr – $234K/yr

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