Job Description:
Portfolio Strategy & Innovation Pipeline
• Build a balanced innovation portfolio across core, adjacent and transformational growth opportunities.
• Identify portfolio gaps, whitespace opportunities and future growth territories.
Innovation Incubation & Growth Platforms
• Lead incubation of new product, service and ecosystem opportunities through test-and-learn pilots.
• Build business cases, growth plans and scale-up recommendations for validated opportunities.
Cross-Functional Innovation Leadership
• Partner with CMI, Global R&D, Pillars, Commercial and VCO teams to turn opportunities into projects.
• Drive governance, portfolio reviews and alignment between local needs and global priorities.
Consumer-Led & Future Growth Innovation
• Translate pet owner, customer and market insights into propositions that are desirable, feasible and viable.
• Explore growth beyond products, including Pet Owner ecosystems, CRM-enabled platforms, services and partnerships.
Experience
• 5+ years in Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, E2E Marketing
• Experience in FMCG, Consumer Health, Pet Health Care, Mom-Baby industry preferred.
• Track record of developing, validating or launching innovation initiatives in complex organizations.
Capabilities
• Innovation and venture mindset
• Portfolio management and strategic thinking
• Business case development and growth strategy
• Consumer centricity and data-informed decision making
• Stakeholder influence, storytelling and learning agility
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in innovation, portfolio strategy, or end-to-end marketing
- Experience in FMCG, consumer health, pet healthcare, or mom-and-baby industries
- Track record of developing, validating, or launching innovation initiatives in complex organizations
- Innovation and venture mindset
- Portfolio management and strategic thinking capabilities
- Business case development and growth strategy capabilities
- Consumer centricity and data-informed decision-making capabilities
- Stakeholder influence, storytelling, and learning agility
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.
