Job Description:
About Mars Snacking Accelerator
Accelerator, a global Division of Mars Snacking, is on the front line of unlocking growth across high-potential categories and brands to fuel what’s next for Snacking. It’s home to both emerging and enduring brands, including KIND, TRÜ FRÜ, NATURE’S BAKERY, RXBAR, EGGO, POP-TARTS, and RICE KRISPIES TREATS. Combining the scale of Mars with the agility of a start-up, our Division has the ambition to accelerate the future of snacking by delivering products consumers love today, discovering category-shaping innovations for tomorrow, and developing entrepreneurial teams whose impact will last for generations.
We’re looking for passionate talent who dare to dream big, agile collaborators who talk straight and decide fast, and driven performers with a growth mindset. We’re proudly part of Mars, while also building something boldly different. If this inspires and energizes you, you’ve found the right place where you can do cool things with fun people for one of the biggest snacking companies in the world!
The Opportunity: Why This Role Matters
This is more than a reporting role; this is a leadership role with a mandate to build. As the Senior Manager for Small Format Sales Finance, you are the key finance business partner to the sales leadership team, responsible for creating the strategic vision while driving day-to-day results. This is a unique opportunity to own and streamline processes, build a team, and make a tangible impact on our financial and business outcomes. We need a leader who is both a strategic thinker and a hands-on builder, someone who can see the big picture and is not afraid to dig into the data to make it a reality.
What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)
Lead Strategic Planning: Drive the strategic planning process for the Small Format channel, defining investment posture and providing a strong financial lens to guide our long-term vision.
Drive Business Partnership: Act as the primary finance partner to the Sales and Category teams, providing financial visibility, insightful analysis, and data-driven recommendations to influence key business decisions.
Own Financial Management & Analysis: Lead financial modeling, special project work, and "what-if" analyses to guide investment priorities and ensure the delivery of financial targets.
Build & Evolve Processes: Take ownership of the end-to-end financial processes that support the sales team, continuously streamlining and improving them to drive efficiency and impact.
Team Leadership: Lead and develop a team of finance professionals (2 direct reports), fostering a high-performance culture.
What We’re Looking For
A Strategic Builder: Someone who excels at both high-level strategic planning and the hands-on work of building and refining processes from the ground up.
A Data-Driven Influencer: The ability to translate complex data into clear insights and use them to confidently guide and, when necessary, challenge business partners.
A CPG Finance Pro: Deep experience in CPG and a strong practical understanding of the link between business drivers and the P&L.
An Excel Wizard: Advanced proficiency in manipulating large data sets, building complex models, and using functions like VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables is essential.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, or a related field.
Experience: Significant, progressive experience in a finance role, with a strong preference for CPG and sales finance experience.
Systems: Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel is a must. Experience with SAP and other financial planning systems is highly preferred.
Skills: Exceptional analytical, decision-making, and communication skills.
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The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.
The pay range shown is applicable to all US locations listed within the job posting:USD 153,600.00 - USD 211,200.00Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or a related field
- Significant, progressive experience in a finance role
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including large data sets, complex models, VLOOKUPs, and Pivot Tables
- Exceptional analytical, decision-making, and communication skills
- Deep experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) finance
- Sales finance experience
- Experience with SAP and other financial planning systems
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.
