Job Description:
Job Description
The Sales Finance Business Partner (BP) leverages efficient digital tools to partner with Sales and Strategic Revenue Management teams in driving profitable growth. The BP works closely across the Market organization, and other key finance and non-finance stakeholders outside the Market, to drive financial discipline, accountability, and value creation across the business. This role will be critical in supporting business decision-making, managing budgets effectively, and partnering with leaders to deliver sustainable growth.
The Sales BP is part of a pool of finance partners shared across brands and events to positively impact business performance in the areas where the highest value is created and is responsible for measuring performance through KPIs that align with the Market’s accountability and Management P&L.
The Sales BP is guided by a “North Star”:
- Acting as a catalyst for change by bringing the outside in, providing financial perspective, and helping frame business issues and opportunities.
- Being a strategic investor by providing holistic and actionable insights, displaying forward-looking analyses, and anchoring an ROI mindset throughout the organization.
- Being modern to the times by leveraging digital tools, embracing emerging technologies, working cross-functionally, and visualizing data and storytelling in an engaging way.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
- 5+ years of diversified financial management experience, including forecasting, planning, budgeting, and business partnering responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience supporting business leaders through financial planning, budget management, and performance tracking.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and insights capabilities.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across functions.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills; intermediate Power BI skills preferred.
- Experience working with or incorporating AI-enabled tools and technologies into business processes is a plus.
- CPG experience is a plus.
- Experience with Supply Chain Finance is a plus.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Cross-functional Business Partnership. Collaborate closely with Sales, Revenue Management, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders to support informed business decisions, improve financial performance, and drive alignment across the organization.
- Financial Planning & Value Creation. Partner with Sales and SRM teams to develop customer and channel strategies, annual plans, and value creation initiatives that support growth, profitability, and business objectives.
- Performance Management & Business Insights. Provide financial analysis, identify risks and opportunities, monitor customer and channel performance, and drive actions to deliver financial commitments.
- Budget Management & Accountability. Manage budgets, customer P&Ls, and trade investments while driving financial discipline, ROI-focused decision making, and accountability across the business.
- Controls, Strategic Support & Digital Transformation. Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, ensure strong financial controls, evaluate key investment decisions, and advance digital capabilities, AI-enabled tools, and process improvements.
This role provides an exciting opportunity to influence business performance, partner with senior stakeholders, and help drive sustainable growth through strong financial stewardship, collaborative leadership, and data-driven decision making.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field
- 5+ years of diversified financial management experience
- Experience with forecasting, planning, budgeting, and business partnering
- Experience supporting business leaders through financial planning, budget management, and performance tracking
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business insights capabilities
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Intermediate Power BI skills
- Experience incorporating AI-enabled tools and technologies into business processes
- Consumer packaged goods experience
- Supply Chain Finance experience
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.
