Job Description:
As an Intern in our West Europe Pet Professional Trade Marketing Team, you will support our business across both the Veterinary (VET) and Professional (PRO) channels. You will gain hands-on experience in cross-border trade marketing execution, sales enablement coordination, and regional product content management, helping drive team efficiency through key operational and recurring tasks.
What are we looking for?
- Education: Currently enrolled in a relevant degree program (e.g., Business Administration, Marketing, Data Science, or similar).
- Interests: Strong interest in product management and trade marketing with a customer-focused mindset.
- Mindset: Strong willingness or initial experience to support a cross-border team, with an eagerness to learn product portfolios and market dynamics.
- Technical Skills: Highly proficient in MS Office; analytical mindset with high attention to detail and accuracy.
- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment.
- Languages: Fluent in German and English; additional language skills (Dutch, French) are a strong plus.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- VET & PRO Channel Support: Assist the team in planning, executing, and tracking trade marketing initiatives for the Veterinary and Professional channel.
- Sales Material Coordination: Coordinate the preparation, organization, and distribution of sales enablement and promotional materials.
- Product Content Management: Maintain and update product content across platforms, ensuring accuracy and brand consistency.
- Operational Support: Execute recurring operational workflows and administrative tasks to support day-to-day team coordination.
- Cross-Border Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional, multi-country team members to align on deliverables.
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.
- Take responsibility for independent tasks in projects and benefit from constant support from an experienced team.
Start: asap
Duration: 6 months
Location: Cologne
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Skills Required
- Currently enrolled in a relevant degree program such as Business Administration, Marketing, Data Science, or a similar field
- Strong interest in product management and trade marketing
- Customer-focused mindset
- Willingness or initial experience supporting a cross-border team
- Eagerness to learn product portfolios and market dynamics
- Highly proficient in MS Office
- Analytical mindset with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Fluent in German and English
- Additional Dutch or French language skills
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.
