Sr. Director Strategic Business Communications Partner – Digital Technologies

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior business partner to the CDIO and Snacking DT Leadership Team, helping shape digital strategy and business decisions from the start. Advise on priorities, timing, and what decisions mean for stakeholders, communications, and reputation.
• Develop the communications and engagement strategy that embeds the digital strategy across the company’s transformation and integration work. Connect DT workstreams and help senior sponsors agree on a shared story, how the work fits together, and the outcomes to achieve—turning strategy into leadership commitments, Associate behaviors, and ways of working across functions and markets.
• Partner with DT leaders and cross-functional teams to engage Associates around business objectives, growth priorities, and results. Shape the approach to key internal and external moments, choosing the right channels, timing, and stories.
• Make complex digital priorities clear through compelling content and real examples that show progress and impact, bring functions and markets together, and connect segment goals with the enterprise digital strategy.
• Define the executive positioning and leadership engagement strategy for the CDIO, connecting the strategy with DT’s business, transformation, and integration priorities; establish the leadership narrative, stakeholder priorities, and desired outcomes that guide reputation building efforts.
• Shape the long-term thought leadership agenda with the CDIO, using business priorities, stakeholder insights, and digital trends to choose where Mars Snacking should lead the conversation on technology, data and analytics, and AI.
• Develop content and materials to support primarily the CDIO on leadership engagement, including town halls, leadership meetings, leader messages, Q&A, video scripts, presentations, and intranet articles; equip next-level leaders with aligned materials.
• Support executive readiness and presence through messaging development, panel preparation, and leadership briefing materials.
• Partner with External Communications on media relations and issues management, connecting executive visibility to business and reputation goals.
• In partnership with the transformation communications team, lead priority digital transformation programs, building understanding, readiness, and commitment to new capabilities and ways of working.

Requirements

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree required (Communications, Public Affairs, Journalism, or related field preferred), 12+ years of experience in communications, corporate affairs, or related roles.
• Executive Counsel: Demonstrated success advising C-suite and senior leaders, influencing decisions, and providing constructive challenge.
• Digital Transformation Acumen: Fluency in digital strategy, AI, data and analytics, technology modernization, and enterprise transformation, with the ability to connect technical change to business value.
• Storytelling & Delivery: Exceptional writing, presentation, and project leadership skills across executive, digital, social, and live channels in a global environment.

Benefits

• Industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.