Senior Data & Analytics Program Delivery Manager

ropriately across teams and initiatives.

• Own program-level reporting across RC D&A, providing transparency into progress, blockers, resource allocation, and delivery/squad health. Work with the Analytics Delivery Director and Product Delivery Managers to align key performance metrics and definitions of delivery success.

• Hold accountability for program business case process; ensure they are created to quality, tracked through the governance lifecycle, and have associated value realization and resource plans.

• Possesses the ability to craft executive-level presentations, insights and deliver updates to senior management and stakeholder groups.

• Hold specific financial accountability for our foundational capabilities in data science and engineering. Build and utilize mutual vendor partnerships to empower these teams to focus on what they do best.

• Facilitate annual execution planning (AEP) activities at a program level, including data preparation, initiative tracking, and meeting coordination.

• Partner with Product Delivery Managers on cross-team delivery initiatives, including tool usage and internal reporting mechanisms. Ensure these are managed effectively, including management of any identified risks or dependencies, with intent to empower data-driven decision making.

• Foster strong working relationships across delivery, product, and business leadership to ensure shared understanding of priorities and outcomes.

• Support effective inter and intra-team communication. Act as a liaison between the D&A organization and the wider Digital Technology division, ensuring delivery activities remain aligned to strategic priorities.

This role operates at the intersection of execution, governance, and communication. It is a role requiring partnership over policing, so not to reduce the flexibility and speed of delivery that Agile empowers.

A successful candidate will be able to operate alongside other Agile roles (e.g. Scrum Masters, Product Managers) to enhance and standardize their day-to-day operations without absorbing responsibilities or generating non-value add activities. It may require challenging squad's status quo, in pursuit of improving delivery in the long term and meeting enterprise-level requirements. You will help connect the dots between teams and present a common way of operating to stakeholders outside the team itself. As such your ability to navigate organizational dynamics, anticipate challenges, and broker different approaches (e.g. speed to value against process/governance rigor) will be crucial to your success.

What are we looking for?

• 5-7 years of experience in a PMO, Delivery Operations, or Project Portfolio role within an Agile or hybrid organization. Direct experience of product execution is beneficial, but not essential.

• Strong finance acumen, understanding of delivery in Agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and how they scale across teams and programs.

• Proven ability to operate in complex organizational structures, working across product, development, and financial teams.

• Experience managing delivery governance, planning cycles (including annual execution planning), risk management, and stakeholder engagement at a program level.

• Familiarity with benefit/value tracking or Lean Portfolio Management.

• Advanced skills in PPM and overall reporting tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Power BI).

• Strong presentation skills, with experience preparing executive-level content.

• Confident communicator with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence without direct authority.

Education/Qualifications

• Batchelor's degree in Management, Business Administration, STEM subject or similar.

• Advantageous: PMO or Agile certifications (e.g. Scrum, SixSigma, PMI-ACP, PMO Practitioner)

• Advantageous: PowerBI certification, Change management qualification (e.g. PROSCI)

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.

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