Global Sustainability Demand Manager M/F/X Mars

This role’s mission is to create value out of Royal Canin’s significant sustainability credentials and assets, turning them into brand equity, customer trust, and business growth.

The Global Sustainability Demand Lead sits at the intersection of Demand and Sustainability — primarily translating sustainability activities into commercial value, while also bringing a Demand perspective into shaping sustainability strategy itself.

This role acts as the Center of Excellence for Sustainability and Demand, owning the sustainability agenda and strategy across all Demand functions, spanning the full arc from strategic direction to operational implementation — across three main areas/ Innovation & Portfolio, Communication & Activation, and Enablers.

Reports to the Global Innovation Director, with a dotted line to the Global Sustainability VP.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (preferred) in Business Management, Marketing, or related fields.
• Business Experience: 8+ years of total business experience, with at least 5+ years of direct experience in a Demand role.
• Sustainability Literacy: Sound understanding of sustainable practices and principles, paired with a strong passion for sustainability, and willingness to learn. Prior experience in successfully integrating sustainability into major global brands is a major plus.
• Strategic & Operational Duality: Proven ability to operate seamlessly across both strategic and operational horizons – capable of building high-level, long-term strategic plans and equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves to turn them into concrete, day-to-day operational action.
• Stakeholder Influence: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Communication & Networking: Excellent communication, relationship-building, and networking skills.
• Resilience & Mission-Driven Mindset: Comfortable working toward a purpose-driven mission amidst varying interests across the organization. Possesses the independence to stand alone, the courage to stand up for the agenda, and the personal resilience to champion a topic that is not always the priority for the Demand team.

What would be your key responsibilities?

This role leads the sustainability agenda for the demand organization, acting as a strategic owner and a central point of consultation. Responsibilities are structured across four key pillars:

1. Sustainability Leadership & Strategy

• Own the Demand Sustainability Roadmap: Update and govern the sustainability Demand Vision, Strategy, and activation roadmap for the global demand organization, ensuring alignment with Royal Canin’s overall business objectives.
• Act as the “Voice of Demand”: Represent Demand within the Royal Canin and Mars Petcare Sustainability matrix. Contribute to corporate sustainability agenda by injecting critical insights from the pet ecosystem (pet owners, veterinarians, and retailers).

2. Portfolio & Innovation

• Unlock Sustainability Value Proposition: Define and lead the sustainability choices for our global portfolio, ensuring it is systematically linked to our overall Portfolio Architecture and Innovation pipeline. Through this strategy, identify and capture value proposition opportunities across the portfolio, realized either through physical innovations or renovations (product, packaging, or service) or through meaningful and distinctive product claims.
• Scientific Substantiation & Certifications: Partner with R&D, Corporate Affairs, and scientific teams to develop robust sustainability proof points (eg, scientific research on climate/environmental impacts on pet health) and secure recognized third-party sustainability certifications to structurally validate our portfolio’s credentials.
• Sustainable Innovation Governance: Seamlessly embed sustainability assessments and target-setting directly into the end-to-end innovation process, ensuring every new pipeline project actively contributes to Royal Canin’s global sustainability targets from concept to launch.

3. Communication & Activation

• Sustainability Communication Framework: Own the Global Sustainability Brand and Commercial Communication strategy, defining the brand’s core sustainability narrative and its communication channels. Partner with global functions—Global Innovation, VCMs, Brand & Corporate Communication, POX—t