Job Description:
Senior Global Media Operations Manager
Location: UK or US
As the Global Senior Media Operations Manager, you will drive commercial value, investment efficiency, and operational excellence for Mars Pet Nutrition's global media ecosystem. In this role, you’ll establish rigorous standards across media investment, ad-operations, reporting, and data taxonomy to maximize ROI across media channels. This is a highly analytical and operational role with a focus on governance; you’ll be responsible for translating operational data into high-impact strategic insights for global brands and local operating entities.
What are we looking for?
Significant experience in digital media planning, strategy and / or ad-operations
Deep expertise managing multi-million-dollar investment budgets including planning, channel allocation and reporting
Experience building, scaling or managing biddable media operations and / or search operations; hands-on ad platform experience a plus
Experience with both brand-building and performance marketing channels
Demonstrated ability to align stakeholders across functions and markets around a common process or way of working
Proven & demonstrable project management, change leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent relationship builder to upskill, engage and inspire teams
BSC or Business Degree and / or equivalent media experience
What will be your key responsibilities?
Media Investment & Planning
Drive global media investment governance, scenario planning, and PESO framework implementation to maximize investment effectiveness, consumer relevance, and sustainable growth.
Ad Operations & Data Taxonomy
Establish, standardize and govern global ad operations excellence through standardized taxonomy, tracking, and data governance to enable accurate and consistent media performance reporting
Data, Technology & Measurement
Scale media measurement and ad-tech capabilities, embedding MMM insights into planning and decision-making while driving best-in-class standards.
Codify and deploy data and measurement best practices across markets, and enhance Search performance through dynamic bidding and keyword optimization.
Finance & Reporting
Partner with Finance to manage media budgets, governance, forecasting, and reporting processes.
Deliver global Search & Social performance reporting and support leadership investment reviews with ROI benchmarks and key insights
Commercial & Financial Acumen
This role requires high autonomy to design, build, and continuously refine reporting dashboards, operational workflows, and investment pipelines in a fast-paced environment.
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Skills Required
- Significant experience in digital media planning, strategy, and/or ad operations
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar investment budgets, including planning, channel allocation, and reporting
- Experience building, scaling, or managing biddable media operations and/or search operations
- Experience with both brand-building and performance marketing channels
- Ability to align stakeholders across functions and markets around common processes
- Demonstrated project management, change leadership, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent relationship-building skills and ability to upskill, engage, and inspire teams
- BSc or business degree and/or equivalent media 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.
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