Job Description:
Category Analyst – 6 month contract (2 positions available)
At Mars, we believe in inspiring moments of everyday happiness. As part of our Category Development team, you’ll help shape the way we support our customers, streamline processes, and bring our iconic brands to life across our key grocery partner. This is more than a Sales Ops role — it’s your opportunity to connect people, performance, and purpose every day.
Reporting to the Head of Category Development, and working alongside our Category Development Leads for Grocery, this role is responsible for analysing segment-level trends and performance to identify future growth opportunities and formulate appropriate recommendations for our Grocery customers. There will be a deliberate focus on current in market performance to an 18-month time horizon.
What are we looking for?
- Business Graduate with experience in a blue chip FMCG/CPG business with category & customer understanding and analytical skills
- Experience working and delivering results in a blue chip FMCG/CPG organisation.
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to interpret data from a mix of data sources and translate insights into relevant strategies and tactics (actions / initiatives) and execute with our customers in a clear, simple and engaging way
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Analyse segment, customer & channel trends, and performance to identify future growth opportunities and formulate appropriate recommendations, ensuring sustainable category growth
- Develop and deliver relevant periodic reporting and analysis to underpin the category leadership agenda; lead the advancement of our reporting utilising automation & predictive analytics tools
- Responsible for range and assortment analysis needed for customer range reviews and for the creation of planograms based on assortment performance, Product Quadrant Analysis (PQA), our Merchandising Must-Haves (MMH) & our Pictures of Success (PICOFS) embedded in our Perfect Store program
- Support Category Development Leaders with store level analysis on customers & strategic test and learns utilising tools such as Nielsen, Quantium & Synergy
- Responsible for range and assortment analysis needed for customer range reviews and for the creation of planograms based on assortment performance, Product Quadrant Analysis (PQA), our Merchandising Must-Haves (MMH) & our Pictures of Success (PICOFS) embedded in our Perfect Store program
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with 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.
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
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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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.
