People Operations

• Act as a strategic co-pilot to the Plant Director and Factory Management Team across factory operations
• Drive the people and culture agenda across the Nairobi site
• Champion the Mars Five Principles
• Embed talent and capability roadmaps
• Drive Mars Supply Excellence Work Systems to support zero-loss operations and agile execution
• Lead the People Pillar and partner with the Education & Training Pillar to build functional competencies
• Deliver coaching and embed continuous improvement behaviors
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and Centers of Excellence to attract talent and build talent pipelines
• Implement Mars Leadership Competency roadmaps
• Serve as an Associate Advocate and culture champion
• Oversee associate relations and counsel line managers on complex P&O matters
• Lead recognition programs
• Manage factory P&O metrics, overheads, and budget allocation within the site P&L
• Ensure alignment with Mars Signature processes and governance standards

People & Organization Business Partner

• Serve as the dedicated people partner to approximately 200 Global Shared Services employees
• Advise and coach GSS leaders from managers through VPs on team structure, workforce needs, talent, and people decisions
• Lead organizational design and workforce planning, including structure, role definition, levels, sizing, and sequencing
• Own talent and succession planning, including readiness, flight risk, and single points of failure
• Partner on performance and compensation decisions, calibration, promotion cases, and band placement
• Coach senior leaders and global managers on leadership, behavior, and performance conversations
• Lead people-side change for restructures and leadership transitions
• Represent People for global staff and hold employment decisions within the organizational framework
• Define behavior and underperformance categories and communicate them across the organization
• Audit country-level case handling and create global standards for intake, escalation, responsibility, and documentation
• Build an employment decision framework and delegated authority matrix with Legal
• Design and deliver enablement for managers, HR Managers, and staff
• Establish a centralized record of investigation outcomes to identify patterns and inconsistencies
• Recommend within the first 90 days who should support behavior and underperformance cases in each country
• Coach HR Managers through cases and serve as a technical escalation point
• Provide People input during case triage and monitor outcomes for consistency
• Report to the Head of People

People Operations jobs in Kenya

People & Organization Business Partner

Director, People Partnering