Job Description:
Join the Palatability and Flavour team within Pet Nutrition Global R&D, where we combine two passions: a love for pets and a passion for data! As an intern with us, you’ll dive into an international, collaborative environment focused on enhancing pet food palatability — always keeping the needs of both pets and their parents in mind. To achieve our mission, our scientists rely on fast, accurate data analysis, and your support in making this possible will be essential to our success. In your role, you will:
Your tasks:
- Develop and maintain scripts for preparing and processing lab data to ensure consistency and quality for analysis.
- Assist scientists and team members with visualizing data and conducting statistical analyses to support research and decision-making.
- Write clean, well-documented code and maintain clear documentation of workflows and methodologies.
- Support the migration of lab-generated data into a centralized data lake, contributing to streamlined data access and usability for researchers.
Your profile:
- Enrollment for the entire period of the internship (current enrollment certificate and proof of mandatory internship must be attached to the application) or internship between the Bachelor and Master studies (Gap Year).
- Experience in programming, either in python or in R (experience in both is a plus).
- Basic understanding of data wrangling, data visualization, and statistical methods.
- Interest in applying data science in a laboratory or scientific environment.
- Fluent English (no German required)
- Nice to have: Experience with data lakes or cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Nice to have: Experience using version control tools such as Git.
Our offer:
- 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.
Start Date: As soon as possible (August/September)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Verden (Aller), Germany
Skills Required
- Enrollment for the entire internship period or gap year between Bachelor and Master (current enrollment certificate and proof of mandatory internship)
- Experience in programming in Python or R (experience in both is a plus)
- Basic understanding of data wrangling, data visualization, and statistical methods
- Interest in applying data science in a laboratory or scientific environment
- Fluent English
- Experience with data lakes or cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- Experience using version control tools such as Git
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.
