Job Description:
Title: Pet Specialty Category Management Analyst
Location: Franklin, TN
Workstyle: Onsite
Mars Snacking does not sponsor visas for this role. This position is not eligible for relocation benefits
A Mars Petcare Category Management Analyst plays an integral role in leveraging analytical data and converting it into insights and recommendations for key stakeholders that will achieve business objectives. This role will support the Pet Specialty Category Managers in analytics and customer presentations.
What we are looking for?
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2 years in sales or category analytics or management
- 2 years of consumer-packaged goods analytical experience
- Highly skilled in Excel and PowerPoint
- Able to effectively communicate and interact with others and work effectively within a team
- Strong analytical skills and ability to distill complex data into clear and impactful stories
- Strong sense of curiosity
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Utilize data to Identify business trends, competitive market activity, shopper trends, product performance, and provide actionable recommendations to partner retailers
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to track performance of business objectives (shelf performance, product effectiveness, retailer initiatives)
- Build, update and refresh weekly and monthly dashboards (weekly POS + monthly category recaps)
- Provide ad hoc support as needed
Other Responsibilities
- As a category analyst you will play a critical role in supporting the category advisor team and building a strong partnership with our customer(s)
- You will conduct high quality analysis and synthesis of multi-source data to evaluate item performance, assortment planning and store clustering through the modular process, while leveraging effective communication & influencing to orchestrate action
- Participate in the development of category presentations incorporating syndicated data and other sources of data that address business issues
- Work closely with our Category Management and Space Planning teams to ensure quality results are delivered
- Keep abreast of customer(s) KPIs, strategies, and other important information
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, business, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in internal, corporate, employee engagement, executive, or strategic communications
- Experience partnering with business leaders and stakeholders on communications
- Exceptional writing, editing, presentation development, and storytelling skills
- Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities
- Experience developing communication strategies, plans, and campaigns
- Experience using communications metrics and analytics to measure effectiveness and drive improvement
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.
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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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