Job Description:
The Sales Support Executive plays a crucial role in maximizing the efficiency of our national sales operations. In this position, you will provide critical administrative, logistics, and planning support to our field sales teams. By taking ownership of internal reporting and operational execution, you will streamline processes and ensure our commercial teams have everything they need to deliver outstanding business results. 📈
🎯 What will be your key responsibilities?
🤝 Interaction with Key Accounts:
- Communicate promotional offers, log logistics data, and manage Best Before Date (\BBD) and Out of Stock (\OOS) inquiries.
- Serve as the main point of contact for key accounts, ensuring strong relationship management.
📊 Planning & Administration:
- Perform data entry in the demand planning system, input data in the Promo tool, and run pre/post-ROI evaluations of sales activities.
- Gather Trade Expenditure evidence for invoice approval and review Trade Expenditure accruals before Period closing.
- Prepare materials for sales meetings and draft high-impact presentations.
📦 Logistic Data Management:
- Collect information about product changes and supply chain updates.
- Take part in crucial \BBD and \OOS mitigation meetings.
- 📝 Internal Reporting:
- Prepare and distribute daily sales out reports, as well as internal reports on a periodic and ad-hoc basis.
- Provide key information on promotions and Point of Sale Materials (\POSM) to the field force team and distributors.
- Collect and organize information related to sales team activities.
- Support sales-related projects by providing critical data analysis as needed.
🔍 What are we looking for?
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in economics, Finance, or Business Administration.
- Experience: 1+ years of experience in a similar role related to assisting sales teams and preparing sales reports.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and high-level administrative skills.
- Languages: Fluent English; knowledge of the local language is a benefit.
- Computer literacy with a strong, advanced working knowledge of MS Excel.
🎁 What we offer?
- Competitive salary package and benefits.
- Life and accident insurance is provided from your very first day.
- Annual allowances include: 🍔 €31/month for lunch; 🏋️ €200 for sports/fitness; 👓 €128 for glasses;🦷 €51 for dental care.
- Voluntary Pension Program: Join after your 3-month probation with a company co-contribution of up to 5%.
- Private Health Insurance: Eligible immediately following your probation period.
- Corporate Training: Various programs offered to support your personal growth and career aspirations.
- Pet-Friendly Offices: We love pets! You are more than welcome to bring your dog to work with you. 🐾
- Free Mars Products: Enjoy a sweet selection of our famous products provided every single month!
- Associate Assistance Program: Access free, professional consulting services to support your personal well-being.
- Engagement & Growth: Enjoy exciting team activities, 2 paid days per year for volunteering 🤝, and 2 paid days for studies 📖.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance or Business administration
- 1+ years of experience in similar roles
- Good communication, collaboration and administrative skills
- Fluent English, local language as a benefit
- Computer literacy, good knowledge of MS Excel
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.
