Job Description:
📍 Birstall
💷 £34,100 - £37,000 DOE
🎁 + Performance Bonus & Exceptional Benefits
🕒 37.5 Hrs per week – Mon – Fri
🌟 Why Join Us?
We care about the world and your future. Mars offers competitive compensation and benefits along with some great perks, like fun freebies and best-in-class development. As a Mars Associate, you have our ongoing commitment to your growth and development as you work across our world-famous brands. The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today, and we're here to support you every step of the way.
💼 The Role
Responsible for managing the flow of materials and products through the supply chain while ensuring compliance with quality standards. This role involves overseeing product holds and releases, managing inventory discrepancies, coordinating with quality control teams, and facilitating the resolution of quality issues that impact logistics operations.
The position ensures smooth and efficient processing, safeguarding product integrity and regulatory compliance.
⭐ What’s in it for you?
- Hot food restaurant on site
- Career growth opportunities with structured development & Mars University
- Private healthcare + equal parental leave
- Onsite gym and nurse/osteopath/podiatrist
- Generous pension (up to 9% contribution)
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Gym membership & wellbeing support
- Annual leave starting at 24 days, rising to 32 with service
- Free parking on site
✅ What We’re Looking For
- Experience (2+ years) in logistics, operations, quality control, or supply
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- In-depth knowledge of logistics processes, inventory management, and quality control systems.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and collaborate with various teams.
- Computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
🔧 Key Responsibilities
- Manage product holds and releases, ensuring accurate documentation, traceability, and stakeholder communication.
- Collaborate with logistics, operations, quality, and suppliers to resolve hold and release issues efficiently.
- Monitor held inventory, conduct stock counts, and ensure correct labelling in line with Mars standards.
- Ensure products and materials meet company quality and regulatory requirements before release or shipment.
- Support investigations into quality failures, defects, and inventory discrepancies, including root cause analysis and audits.
- Act as the escalation point for product quality and logistics issues, driving resolution and continuous improvement initiatives.
🌍 What You Can Expect from Mars
- Work alongside 130,000+ Associates worldwide guided by our Five Principles
- Be part of a purpose-driven company shaping “the world we want tomorrow”
- Access world-class training & development from day one
- Join a company with an industry-leading salary and benefits package
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of experience in logistics, operations, quality control, or supply chain
- In-depth knowledge of logistics processes, inventory management, and quality control systems
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including cross-functional collaboration
- Computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
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.
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