Job Description:
The Digital Shelf Analytics Lead is responsible for building analytics capabilities, translating complex data into clear, actionable insights that drive business performance. This role is pivotal in developing a "closed loop" analytics process, turning data from the Digital Shelf into decisive actions that enhance our product experience and digital growth.
Acting as a strategic partner to the PXM, Marketing, and Digital Commerce teams, the job holder will use insights to identify opportunities and recommend actions that improve product visibility, conversion, and overall performance. By ensuring our strategies are data-driven, this role plays a critical part in helping our brands win on the Digital Shelf and Perfect Digital Store (PDS) initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
The Digital Shelf Analytics Lead will be responsible for dashboards, analytics, insights generation, and capability building:
- Develop & Scale Analytics: Design, develop, and scale our Digital Shelf Analytics capabilities. Create and maintain intuitive dashboards (primarily in Power BI) that provide clear visibility into key performance indicators (e.g., availability, content quality scores, share of search, pricing, ratings & reviews).
- Generate Actionable Insights: Translate complex data into strategic recommendations. Proactively identify trends, competitive threats, and opportunities on the Digital Shelf and Perfect Digital Store, including new product introductions and promotional activities.
- Drive Closed-Loop Execution: Partner with the PXM and technology teams to create and refine "closed-loop" processes, ensuring that insights from analytics are seamlessly integrated into our PIM (Salsify) and other platforms to enable rapid updates and optimization.
- Strategic Business Partnership: Work closely with the PXM Community, Marketing, Digital Commerce, and Sales teams to understand their priorities and deliver insights that support superior decision-making and drive measurable business outcomes.
- Standardize & Govern KPIs: Define, standardize, and govern the key metrics for measuring digital shelf performance across all markets, ensuring alignment with our global analytics framework and the "Perfect Digital Store" program.
- Leverage Multiple Data Sources: Integrate data from various sources, including Digital Shelf Analytics (DSA) solutions, retailer platforms, and internal systems, to build a cohesive and comprehensive view of our digital performance.
- Inform Retail Media Strategy: Utilize DSA insights on competitor strategy and search positioning to partner with marketing teams, informing and optimizing retail media ad purchases and campaign strategies.
- Champion Continuous Improvement: Continuously enhance our analytics solutions by automating reporting, introducing new metrics, and exploring emerging capabilities like AI-driven analytics and sentiment analysis on consumer reviews.
Job Specifications/Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Product Management, Marketing, or a related field
- Fluency in English, both written and oral
- 3+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or digital analytics roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Power BI (dashboard development, data modeling, visualization, best practices)
- Relevant experience working with Digital Shelf Analytics solutions such as Salsify Automated Insights (preferred), e.fundamentals, NielsenIQ, Profitero, PriceSpider.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into business insights and recommendations
- Familiarity with developing "closed-loop" processes that connect analytics insights into action within PIM or marketing automation systems
- Stakeholder management and the ability to influence decision-making through data
- Experience working in global, cross-functional environments
Nice to Have / Additional Skills
- Experience with PXM/PIM platforms (e.g., Salsify)
- Knowledge of SQL, data modeling, or data integration concepts
- Familiarity with data storytelling and visualization best practices
- Experience with automation and AI-driven analytics
- Understanding of MarTech and eCommerce ecosystems
Key Mars Leadership Competencies
- Drives Results
- Manages Ambiguity
- Optimizes Work Processes
- Plans and Aligns
- Tech Savvy
- Collaborates
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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Product Management, Marketing, or a related field
- Fluency in English, written and oral
- 3+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or digital analytics roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Power BI, including dashboard development, data modeling, visualization, and best practices
- Experience with Digital Shelf Analytics solutions such as Salsify Automated Insights, e.fundamentals, NielsenIQ, Profitero, or PriceSpider
- Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into business insights and recommendations
- Familiarity with closed-loop processes connecting analytics insights to actions in PIM or marketing automation systems
- Stakeholder management skills and ability to influence decision-making through data
- Experience working in global, cross-functional environments
- Experience with PXM/PIM platforms such as Salsify
- Knowledge of SQL, data modeling, or data integration concepts
- Familiarity with data storytelling and visualization best practices
- Experience with automation and AI-driven analytics
- Understanding of MarTech and eCommerce ecosystems
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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