Job Description:
Location: Warsaw, Prague or Bucharest 🐱🐶🐕🐈⬛🐾
The role exists to support the deployment and governance of portfolio plans that enable delivery of our growth strategy across our Central Europe Cluster markets and brands.
The role partners closely with the Portfolio Manager to translate innovation, renovation, and simplification strategies into actionable market deployment plans.
Key Responsibilities 🐾:
Portfolio Strategy & Simplification for Growth
Deploy portfolio strategies across cluster markets, driving growth through innovation, renovation, and simplification for growth agenda, guided by PNE Growth Strategy.
Proactively drive performance assessment and visibility, identify gaps, unlock opportunities, and ensure alignment with regional and local priorities.
Portfolio Governance & Deployment planning
Support portfolio plan alignment, submission, and deployment through key business processes including S2W, Innovation and Portfolio Stage Gates, and S&OP+.Execution & Cross-Functional Alignment
Achieve Excellence in Execution role modeling high performance culture via robust x-functional collaboration with Cluster and regional Teams.
Translate portfolio and brand strategies into clear, actionable plans and ensure end-to-end delivery and follow-through
Develop compelling in trade stories and deployment plans leveraging category insights, brand strategies supported by executional plans per initiative (innovation, renovation etc)
Performance Analytics & Value Delivery
Perform portfolio performance tracking through KPI scorecards, financial analysis, and growth bridge insights
Proactively manage Risk&Opp assessment and drive supporting actions for acceleration/gap closing.
What are we looking for ⚞ • ⚟?
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, or a related field.
2+ years of experience in FMCG marketing, category management, portfolio management, or business strategy.
Strong project management skills with the ability to coordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Analytical mindset with experience in performance tracking, financial analysis, and deriving actionable insights, hands on experience in Nielsen and internal reporting tools is an advantage.
Ability to build strong networks and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
Experience working across multiple markets or in an international environment is a plus.
Fluent English required.
What can you expect from us 🐈?
Unique opportunity to work across 10+ Central European markets.
Close exposure to innovation, renovation and portfolio strategy.
Close collaboration with regional and local leadership teams.
Opportunity to shape the future growth agenda of the Pet Nutrition business.
Excellent stepping stone into broader Marketing, Strategy, or Portfolio Management roles.
Attractive compensation and benefits package tailored to your location.
Career development support through a personalized growth plan.
The opportunity to participate in volunteering initiatives during working hours.
A pet-friendly office environment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in FMCG marketing, category management, portfolio management, or business strategy
- Strong project management skills
- Analytical mindset with experience in performance tracking and financial analysis
- Experience with Nielsen and internal reporting tools
- Ability to build strong networks and influence stakeholders
- Experience working across multiple markets or in an international environment
- Fluent English
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.
