Job Description:
With this internship, you can expect to experience a breadth of opportunity from understanding marketing portfolio and customer strategies, commercial and analytical delivery, whilst managing a network of stakeholders across full Europe. You will work with our talented international colleagues on our well known Petcare brands. Show us your creativity, analytical skillset and support our team in the full breadth of tasks. You will have opportunity to create your own network in the organisation and to cooperate with our Marketing and Sales teams, plus building trust to our retail partners. At MARS, you are more than just an intern, you will be a fully integrated member of our team and can work on your own projects, of course continuously coached and mentored by our talented team.
What are we looking for?- You are a student aiming for your first/second degree or equivalent in a business related field of studies.
- Ideally, first practical working experience or internships, ideally in the areas Marketing, Sales, Consulting or CPG (FMCG) industry.
- Good analytical, presentation and communication skills
- The ambition to take your own priorities and make a difference every day.
- Experience in working with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Good level and confidence to communicate on a daily base in English language.
- You will support the European Digital Channel Portfolio Team in operational tasks, by deploying our portfolio strategy in the digital sales channels.
- You will take the responsibility for your own (sub-) projects and have the opportunity to present the excellent results of your work.
- You will monitor, analyse, and evaluate internal data and domestic and international market trends, client behavior and competitor activity to identify market opportunities for our products. With this you will build great skills on how to simplify the complex world around us!
- You will learn how to provide shopper & customer insights and prepare product launches & relaunches.
- Together we will create meaningful external sell-in decks for our demand teams.
- You will support our Portfolio Leaders to develop, deploy and govern our strategies on a 5 year timeline.
- 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.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Start: July 2025
Duration: 6 months
Location: Verden (near Bremen)
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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.
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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.
