Mars Leadership Experience 2026 - Graduate Programme

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33K-33K Annually
Entry level
Food
The Role
Join the Mars Leadership Experience Graduate Programme, where you'll undertake three 12-month placements across various business areas, manage teams, and develop leadership skills.
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Job Description:

Your future as a leader starts today.
 

Our general Graduate Programme: The Mars Leadership Experience (MLE), is the perfect grounding for a career in business leadership. You’ll manage projects, lead teams, take on roles with local and international exposure and make decisions with real consequences. The work will come thick and fast, preparing you for the challenges tomorrow.
The MLE comprises three 12-month placements. As a guide, you’ll typically follow a path through the three years with exposure to very different areas of our business. You could have placements that cover, but are not limited to, the following areas: Demand (Sales, Category Management, Marketing), Supply (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics), and Digital (Data & Analytics, Project Management, Functional Applications & Strategy).   
 

What will you do?

  • 3 x 12-month placements, giving you visibility to find the right career path for you.

  • Opportunities to manage teams and projects, allowing you to develop every day.

  • Join our global trainee community, create friends for life, and join a Global business.

Who are we looking for? 

  • You’ll have obtained a degree in any subject, graduating next summer or graduated within the last 2 years.

  • ​​​​​​​Mobile within the UK. Your home sites could be Waltham (Leicestershire), Slough, or Castle Cary and we ask that you are flexible during your time on the program. 

  • You’ll be passionate about your future career as a leader and open to learn and develop yourself outside your comfort zone.

  • You’ll bring an out-the-box thinking to Mars.

What are the benefits?

  • Starting salary £33,000 and joining bonus of £2,000.

  • We’ll give you access to inspiring mentors and coaches to help you grow.

  • Flexible, hybrid working.

  • Dogs in the office (depending on the office).

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.

  • 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.

For more information, please visit careers.mars.com/UK/en/students-graduates

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Top Skills

Category Management
Data & Analytics
Functional Applications & Strategy
Logistics
Manufacturing
Marketing
Project Management
Sales
Supply Chain
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The Company
HQ: McLean, VA
41,866 Employees
Year Founded: 1911

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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