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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director Deployment, Portfolio, and Flywheel - **Company:** Mars - **Location:** Franklin, TN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/74544748-director-deployment-portfolio-and-flywheel ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. * 10+ years in insights, analytics, strategy, or consulting roles. * Proven experience driving insights to business impact and influencing senior stakeholders. * Experience building processes, frameworks, or operating models that scale across teams. * Strong background in analytics, research methodologies, and performance measurement. * Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and capability-building programs. * Strong hands-on experience conducting business analytics and translating outputs into business recommendations. * Demonstrated ability to combine market insights and primary research to tell a complete story of consumer behavior. * Prior ownership and development of standardized but engaging periodic reporting processes. ## Description Are you passionate about turning data into action? Do you excel at connecting the dots between research, analytics, and tangible business results? As the Director of Insights Deployment, Portfolio, & Flywheel for Mars Petcare, you will be the driving force ensuring our insights create a measurable impact across the entire organization. This is a highly visible role where you will not only shape our strategic direction but also build the essential processes and capabilities to embed data-driven decision-making into the heart of our culture. If you thrive on breaking down silos, accelerating growth, and leading a thought leadership agenda that influences senior leaders, this is the opportunity for you to make your mark., * Develop, execute, and operationalize a thought leadership roadmap, personally driving business intelligence and analytics, ensuring insights are translated into clear recommendations, and driving to action through collaboration with the broader Insights team. * Develop and execute a strategic communication plan for Insights that highlights key work and business impact across stakeholders. * Break down silos across Insights teams by embedding consistent processes, forums, and tools that promote collaboration and action. * Lead and embed portfolio and growth analytics processes (e.g., white space identification, demand spaces, flywheel, long term planning, etc.), partnering across the org to ensure robust, insight-led decisions. * Build and implement a standardized methodology to drive research-to-impact, including tracking outcomes, measuring effectiveness, and maintaining a living pipeline of actions yet to be executed. * Own and continuously improve reporting and communication vehicles (e.g., periodic reports, dashboards, webinars, competitive Intelligence), incorporating AI and advanced tools to increase efficiency, depth, and accessibility. * Design and lead cross-team enablement programs to ensure all insights associates understand ongoing work, analytical outputs, key learnings, and recommended actions-driving alignment and accelerating execution. * Oversee budget management and prioritization, ensuring optimal allocation of resources, identifying efficiencies, and maximizing return on insights investments. * Design and deploy training programs for marketing and Insight teams, enhancing capabilities in performance management, measurement, data interpretation, and data-driven decision-making. ## Related Videos - [Inside Mercedes-Benz: 140 Years of Heritage meet AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100054-inside-mercedes-benz-140-years-of-heritage-meet-ai) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [AI is dead, long live AK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1093-ai-is-dead-long-live-ak) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) ## Related Articles - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Graph and AI Trends 2026: Why Is AI Running but Not Yet Delivering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/680-graph-and-ai-trends-2026-why-is-ai-running-but-not-yet-delivering)