Job Description:
Mars: Where your Tomorrow Starts Today!
Mars is a family-owned business that has been making products for people and their pets for more than 100 years. We’re behind some of the best loved brands in the world including MARS®, SNICKERS®, EXTRA®, NUTRI GRAIN®, COCO POPS®, PRINGLES®, PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS®, BEN’S ORIGINAL ® MASTERFOODS ® and ROYAL CANIN® ORIJEN® ACANA® . We are dedicated to making a positive impact on people and the planet.
Join us in building a sustainable future where people, communities, and the planet can truly thrive.
Segment: Mars Snacking Australia
Role Title: Brand Manager - Pringles
Location: Melbourne, Vic
Hours: Full-time
Reporting to: Portfolio Marketing Director
We are on the hunt for a talented, passionate, and commercially savvy Brand Manager to lead our iconic Pringles brand and champion our ambitious Salty Snacks agenda across Australia.
Reporting to the Portfolio Marketing Director, this is a rare opportunity to own one of Australia’s most loved brands. If you are a self-reliant, decisive marketer who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves turning data-driven insights into creative action, and is excited by the prospect of shaping a brand's long-term growth strategy, this is the perfect next step for your career.
This is not your average brand management role. This is a unique strategic pivot point for Pringles in Australia.
You will play a defining role in co-creating the brand's from 5-year growth plan and strategy the ground up. Operating in a tight-knit, highly supportive team, you will have the autonomy to establish local ways of working, drive our innovation pipeline, and make real, tangible waves in the market.
Key Responsibilities
- Growth Planning & Strategy: Co-create the 5-year strategic growth plans for Pringles, identifying untapped market opportunities, defining commercial priorities, and translating consumer insights into action.
- Campaign & Creative Execution: Partner with premier agency networks (creative, media, digital) to build and execute high-impact campaigns across paid, earned, shared, and owned media (PESO).
- Innovation Pipeline Management: Lead a robust 3-to-5-year innovation pipeline. Partner cross-functionally with R&D, Supply Chain, and Sales to deliver exciting packaging, flavour, and format innovations on time, on budget, and on brand.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the central hub for the Pringles brand, aligning key local, regional, and global stakeholders across Portfolio, Sales, Category, Shopper Marketing, Finance, and Supply.
- Commercial Analysis: Leverage scanning, scan data, and market metrics (such as Nielsen/IRI) to evaluate performance, understand business interdependencies, and provide clear recommendations for commercial action.
What You Will Bring
- FMCG Marketing Experience: Marketing experience, ideally within a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment.
- Strategic Thinkers & Doers: End-to-end project management experience with a track record of driving customer-facing initiatives from strategic idea generation to shelf execution.
- Analytical Capability: Advanced analytical acumen with the ability to turn complex scan, customer, and market data into actionable growth strategies.
- Ambiguity and Change Resilience: The capability to stay level-headed and navigate complex stakeholder networks, establish new processes, and champion ideas in evolving organizational environments.
- Diverse & Authentic Perspective: Excellent storytelling and communication skills. We are looking for someone who isn't afraid to bring a fresh perspective, challenge the status quo, and voice their strategic thinking.
Why you’ll love working for Mars:
· Purpose: Help craft beloved brands with a legacy of over 100 years of local manufacturing making products that people and pets will love all while helping to build a more sustainable future.
· People: A culture that values your contributions, fosters leadership, and recognises the impact you make. Your work truly matters here.
· Development: Shape your career with personalised development and real opportunities to grow from day one.
· Enjoy a team and business environment that is invested in helping you manage and grow your energy for work and life.
Skills Required
- Marketing experience, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment
- End-to-end project management experience driving customer-facing initiatives from strategy through execution
- Advanced analytical capability using scan, customer, and market data
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, organizational change, and complex stakeholder networks
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills
- Ability to develop strategic growth plans and translate consumer insights into action
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
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