Job Description:
How does the program work?
We are looking for a dynamic and creative individual to join our Category Management team as a Category Analyst. This role involves analyzing category trends and performance to identify growth opportunities and develop actionable recommendations. You will support the Category Strategy Manager in localizing the category vision and in-store principles, while assisting the team with reporting, range reviews, planograms, and creating Category Plans that drive profitable and sustainable growth with our customers.
Additionally, you will aid the Category Leadership team in data-driven decision-making and activation, bringing the global confectionery vision and in-store leadership principles to life locally. The role requires working with diverse data sources and category management tools to support assortment, ranging, and planogram development, ultimately helping to identify opportunities that foster sustainable category growth.
What will be your key responsibilities:
- Analyse category, customer & channel trends and performance to identify future growth opportunities and formulate appropriate recommendations, ensuring sustainable category growth.
- Develop and deliver relevant reporting and analysis to underpin the category leadership agenda and key customer category relationships.
- Work with the Category Strategy Manager to localise the category vision, provide understanding of the shopper, channel & customer trends and quantify category drivers and platforms to inform prioritisation of growth opportunities.
- Based on global in-Store leadership principles, deliver analysis and support development of local recommendations and solutions to drive Confectionery conversion at the 3 key locations in store (Main Aisle, Transaction Zone & Secondary Displays).
- Delivery of ongoing Category, Channel & Customer reporting to support the Customer Category team and to inform the demand organisation.
- Day to day management of data sources e.g. Neilson and category tools.
What are we looking for?
Eligibility:
Key Competencies:
- Creativity & customer focus
- Innovation mindset
- Action-oriented & collaborative
- Strong planning and alignment skills
- Accountability
Education & Qualifications:
- Recent graduates or postgraduates (up to 2-3 years’ experience) are welcome to apply.
- Strong category and customer understanding with excellent analytical skills
Experience & Skills:
- Preferred proven results in FMCG/consumer products
- Ability to analyse and interpret data from multiple sources, translating insights into clear strategies and actions
- Commercially focused, with strong relationship-building and influencing skills
- Confident in using data to support recommendations
- Proficient IT and category management tool skills
- In-store or customer-facing experience, with the ability to develop engaging category solutions
- Preferred experience in Field Sales, Merchandising, Consumer/Customer Marketing, or Shopper Insights
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Skills Required
- Recent graduates or postgraduates
- Strong category and customer understanding
- Excellent analytical skills
- Proficient IT and category management tool skills
- Preferred experience in FMCG/consumer products
- Commercially focused with strong relationship-building 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.
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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.
