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®, ECLIPSE®, PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS®, DOLMIO®, 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.
Role Title: Customer Development Analyst, Coles
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Hours: Permanent, Full time
Segment: Mars Pet Nutrition ANZ
Reporting to: Customer Development Head – Coles
Are you looking to accelerate your commercial career within one of the world’s most iconic FMCG businesses?
At Mars Pet Nutrition, we are seeking a Customer Development Analyst to join our high-performing Coles account team. In this pivotal role, you will be the operational backbone and analytical engine behind one of our largest retail partnerships, supporting a core commercial portfolio.
This role offers an exceptional launchpad into National Account Management or Commercial Strategy. Beyond operational discipline and financial administration, you will have direct stakeholder and category range management exposure, and a pathway for commercial growth.
What you’ll do
- Own critical end-to-end administrative and commercial processes for the Coles customer relationship, ensuring seamless execution across promotional programs and new line introductions.
- Oversee accrual management, claims reconciliation, and deduction resolution, providing financial analysis and recommendations to optimise ROI and operational efficiency.
- Support the Coles enrichment and activation process for New Product Development (NPD), promotional submissions, and pricing execution in close collaboration with Customer Development Leads.
- Customer Collaboration & Joint Business Planning (JBP): Partner with internal cross-functional teams and external retail stakeholders to generate actionable insights and commercial solutions that support joint growth plans.
- Take guided commercial ownership of a dedicated Coles Pet Care sub-category, partnering with the Customer Development Head to build relationships with Coles Category Managers, sell in new ranges, and execute category strategies.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify process bottlenecks and champion automation, simplification, and reporting efficiencies across both Mars and Coles teams.
Your unique ingredients
- Analytical Rigour & Commercial Acumen: Demonstrated capability in leveraging sales, scan, and financial data to uncover actionable commercial insights and evaluate promotional performance.
- Technical Skills: High proficiency in Microsoft Excel; prior experience with trade management / accrual platforms (e.g., Promax) and retail scan data tools is advantageous.
- Customer & Stakeholder Agility: Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional peers and build long-term, trusted customer relationships.
- Execution & Prioritisation: Outstanding organisational habits, strong attention to detail, and a proactive mindset to balance competing deadlines in a fast-paced retail environment.
- Qualifications: A tertiary degree in Business, Commerce, Marketing, or a related discipline is preferred (or equivalent practical FMCG/retail experience).
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
- Demonstrated ability to use sales, scan, and financial data to identify commercial insights and evaluate promotional performance
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for influencing cross-functional stakeholders and building customer relationships
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize competing deadlines
- Proactive mindset and ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment
- Experience with trade management or accrual platforms such as Promax
- Experience with retail scan data tools
- Tertiary degree in Business, Commerce, Marketing, or a related discipline, or equivalent FMCG or retail experience
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.
