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Product & Process Implementation (PPI) Manager - Wet

Lead WET PPI team to scale wet technology from pilot to full-scale production
North Sioux City, South Dakota, United States
Mid-Level
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Produces popular confectionery, pet care products, and food brands globally as a large, privately held consumer goods manufacturer.

Product & Process Implementation (PPI) Manager - Wet

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.

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

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.

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Product & Process Implementation (PPI) Manager - Wet
North Sioux City, South Dakota, United States
Customer Success
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Produces popular confectionery, pet care products, and food brands globally as a large, privately held consumer goods manufacturer.