Job Description:
Location: Hungary
Duration: 12 months contract
Job Description:
• As Customer Activation Specialist, this role is about being responsible for Activation strategy deployment and tailoring of activation plans together with cluster One Demand team and local Customers on Hungarian market
• The person on this role is aimed to drive cluster EBAs and local TMAs activations, taking specifics of a local market for more customer centricity and actionability in activity development
What are we looking for?
• 2+ years relevant experience in Trade/Customer/Shopper Marketing or Sales in FMCG or at Key Retailers' side
• English – Upper intermediate, Hungarian – Native/fluent
• Experienced in MS Office programs (SAP/Ariba - nice to have)
Skills & Competencies:
• Business Acumen (Understanding of Cluster specifics, FMCG market and Customers environment)
• Project leadership and Action Planning
• Efficient team player
• Work processes optimization
• Drives for result & actionability
• Balancing internal & external stakeholders
• Collaborates effectively
What will be your key responsibilities?
• Close cooperation with local Demand and Sales teams to ensure seamless execution across all key processes
• Managing the execution quality of national activities (EBAs) at customer level
• Full ownership of localized Customer Activations (TMAs) and customer-tailored selling stories
•Managing customer-specific temporary displays and POSM production, leveraging both cluster and local toolkits.
• Collecting and translating local customer needs into actionable requirements, including alignment with One Demand during annual planning
• Serving as the owner of Activity Booster Meetings as a critical alignment input for the S&OP+ process, as well as representative of CA function into other S&OP+ cycle forums (incl. feeders)
• Managing the local Consumer Promo budget
• Representing the CE CA team in assigned cross-market projects and driving cluster-level initiatives from a local perspective, ensuring consistency, collaboration, and high execution standards across markets
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.
• A strong focus on 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.
Please, apply with English CV only
Skills Required
- 2+ years of relevant experience in Trade Marketing, Customer Marketing, Shopper Marketing, or Sales
- Experience in FMCG or on the key retailer side
- Upper-intermediate English proficiency
- Native or fluent Hungarian proficiency
- Experience with Microsoft Office programs
- Experience with SAP or Ariba
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.
