Jobs at Mars

Leads category management for Mars Snacking’s AFH foodservice and unattended retail business. Analyzes syndicated, distributor, operator, POS, and customer data to develop category growth strategies and recommendations across assortment, shelving, merchandising, and space allocation. Advises customers, supports planning and business reviews, creates insight-led presentations, partners with Sales and internal teams, and conducts ad hoc analyses. This remote role requires up to 30% travel.

Manages Mars Snacking’s confectionery category partnership with Target by analyzing shopper, marketplace, competitive, and category data. Develops recommendations for assortment, shelving, pricing, promotions, planograms, and long-term category plans. Leads category captaincies, retail tests, reporting, measurement, and insight development while collaborating with Target stakeholders and internal teams. Requires customer-facing category management, business analytics, data interpretation, presentation, and project coordination skills.

Leads regional strategic sourcing and procurement partnerships across direct and indirect categories. Owns sourcing strategy, supplier relationship management, negotiations, cost reduction, working capital improvements, risk mitigation, and performance accountability. Serves as the liaison between regional teams, global sourcing categories, and shared services while leading cross-functional initiatives and matrixed teams. Requires substantial procurement experience, strong financial and analytical skills, and proficiency with Power BI, SAP, and MRP systems.

Build and scale cost modeling, category intelligence, and cost engineering capabilities for procurement. Develop should-cost models, analyze materials, packaging, labor, overhead, yields, scrap, and supplier margins, and digitize analytical tools. Provide insights for sourcing negotiations, forecasting, capacity planning, value engineering, and product roadmaps. Lead continuous improvement and cross-functional alignment across technical, commercial, manufacturing, and supply chain teams.

Build and scale category intelligence, cost modeling, and cost engineering capabilities for procurement. Develop should-cost models, analyze cost drivers and market intelligence, digitize modeling tools, identify value-engineering opportunities, and support sourcing negotiations, forecasting, capacity planning, and manufacturing cost optimization. Partner cross-functionally with sourcing, technical, and commercial teams to deliver savings and improve procurement processes.

Leads indirect tax and VAT compliance across the DACH and Benelux regions, managing two direct reports and relationships with tax authorities. The role oversees audits, tax risk controls, process improvements, acquired-entity onboarding, cross-border trade tax analysis, and business support for new initiatives. It also develops organizational VAT awareness and contributes to global tax projects.

Leads Demand Business Operations across demand systems, sales systems, data and analytics, and asset management across MEA. Builds and develops a high-performing team, partners with business and technology leaders to create roadmaps, drives adoption and value realization, and governs commercial chiller and freezer assets to improve availability, utilization, productivity, and profitable growth.

Leads the North Europe supply chain organization across six markets, overseeing planning, customer service, logistics, quality, warehousing, and supply chain development. Defines and executes strategy, improves S&OP, drives operational excellence and transformation, manages service, cost, inventory, and performance objectives, and partners with commercial, finance, manufacturing, and regional teams. The role emphasizes people leadership, developing experienced leaders, stakeholder influence, and execution in complex, transformational environments.

Supports regional R&D enterprise systems across Mars business segments. Responsibilities include incident and escalation management, user training, testing documentation, requirements translation, data and process analysis, root cause analysis, system change impact assessments, deployment support, and coordination with development, business, and technical teams.

Leads Mars Snacking market development in Iraq, including route-to-market strategy, distributor capability building, channel development, key-account relationships, sales and distribution performance, P&L and trade-budget management, demand forecasting, supply coordination, and execution of category and shopper initiatives.

Manages end-to-end e-invoicing project delivery, including scope, timelines, cross-functional team mobilization, stakeholder alignment, risk and issue tracking, milestone monitoring, escalation, and deployment of new projects across global, regional, and local teams. The role supports business transformation and project execution through build, run, launch, and expansion phases.

Leads corporate affairs, sustainability communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, media relations, executive thought leadership, and reputation management across Australia and New Zealand. The role develops corporate narratives, supports policy strategies, manages government and industry relationships, oversees external agencies, and handles issues and crisis communications. It requires strong communications leadership, commercial awareness, sustainability experience, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex matrixed environment.

Supports site R&D activities, including product, packaging, and raw-material trials, process development, scale-up, SPC analysis, HACCP and risk assessments. Implements process improvements to reduce waste, downtime, and energy use while increasing production rates. Collaborates with Quality, Supply, Engineering, and Product Development teams, and may manage minor projects, budgets, contractors, and technicians.

Manages corporate financial reporting, KPI analysis, budgeting, long-term strategic planning, scenario analysis, and SGA cost control. Partners with accounting, IT, global regions, executives, and the parent company to deliver accurate reporting and actionable financial recommendations. Oversees financial planning software, supports risk and opportunity assessments, coordinates reporting processes, and mentors junior staff.

Leads Walmart account strategy and execution for Mars Food brands, delivering revenue, profit, distribution, merchandising, promotion, and pricing objectives. Manages customer relationships, joint business plans, trade funding, forecasting, customer P&L, category growth, broker partnerships, and executive engagement. Uses retail analytics and cross-functional collaboration to drive sustainable sales growth, household penetration, and category leadership.

Owns financial systems strategy and SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions across Mars Snacking Accelerator. Responsibilities include configuring FI/CO, product costing, intercompany processes, CFIN integration, roadmap development, governance, AI-enabled automation, AMS oversight, and leadership of a Finance Functional Analyst. The role requires extensive SAP Finance expertise, CPG experience, financial controls knowledge, and delivery experience using SAP Activate and project management tools.

Owns enterprise supply chain functional solutions across procurement, inventory, warehousing, P2P, 3PL integrations, EDI, batch traceability, and FEFO processes. Leads SCM capability roadmaps, SAP S/4HANA architecture and delivery, warehouse and inventory design, AI-enabled exception management, regression testing, AMS vendors, and a functional analyst. Partners with procurement, logistics, warehousing, and food safety stakeholders while ensuring compliance and effective project execution.

Supports the CVS account sales team through business analysis, financial reporting, system updates, promotional spend and deduction management, and customer reporting. Responsibilities include CVS GSV, shipment, and consumption reporting; internal financial system inputs; IBP process support; customized analyses; and interpretation of findings to improve business decisions. The role requires strong Excel skills, syndicated data analysis, CPG experience, and up to 10% travel.

Build and scale digital shelf analytics capabilities, primarily through Power BI dashboards, KPI governance, and integrated data sources. Translate digital commerce data into actionable recommendations that improve product visibility, conversion, pricing, content quality, and retail media performance. Partner with PXM, marketing, sales, commerce, and technology teams to establish closed-loop processes connecting insights to PIM and marketing systems. Drive global analytics standardization, automation, continuous improvement, and emerging AI-driven capabilities.

Develop and manage a territory across Luxembourg and Wallonia by building relationships with veterinary practices, providing consultative sales advice, analyzing customer potential, creating growth plans, guiding assortment and brand activities, and increasing market share. The role involves frequent travel, collaboration with Marketing, Customer Service, and Supply teams, and promoting the health and welfare of cats and dogs.