Job Description:
Principal Accountabilities
- Manage Wet Dog category pricing
- Lead development of shelf back pricing architecture and strategy
- Develop long term vision for omni channel trade, pricing, and promotional architecture
- Manage key stakeholder groups throughout the organization to align with SRM agenda
- Co-pilot development of customer mix strategy with sales leadership
- Create and manage the US pet nutrition SKU assortment architecture
- Lead annual SRM category reviews with business management teams to surface opportunities across price, products and mix for the enterprise
- Develop annual price and investment strategy to maximize enterprise profitability
- Product owner for digital SRM toolkit responsible for maintenance and enhancement of tools leveraged across broader SRM team
- Leverage advanced analytics to drive step change in US pet nutrition portfolio innovation and advance the SRM digital toolkit
Critical Mars Leadership Capabilities
- Technical & Functional Skills: Possess strong technical and analytical skills
- Customer Focus: Understand customer needs and align margin strategies
- Leveraging Insights to Action: Translate pricing insights into actionable recommendations for the marketing teams and the enterprise
- Drive for Results: Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals and objectives
Key Supporting Competencies
- Analytical Acumen: Ability to analyze pricing data from various sources, manipulate information, and make appropriate recommendations
- Problem Solving: Effectively identify and address pricing-related opportunities
- Peer Relationships: Collaborate and foster positive relationships with cross-functional teams involved in pricing-related activities
Key Functional Skills/Knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to manipulate information from various sources, analyze data, and make appropriate recommendations.
- Strong Excel skillset for data manipulation and analysis.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with internal and external teams
- Proactive and service-oriented mindset to drive continuous improvement in trade processes.
- Integrated marketing or sales functional experience
- Learning Agility: Ability to adapt quickly and apply new learnings quickly
Minimum Qualifications
- 5-10 years of working experience and/or internship experience in a related field
- Four-year college degree
- Experience demonstrating advanced problem-solving and analytical capabilities in a cross-functional team environment
Preferred Qualifications
- CPG experience
Every associate at Mars has responsibility for the achievement of quality and food safety.
As a privately-held, family-owned company, Mars Petcare US offers benefits which reflect our commitment to attracting and retaining great people. This includes excellent pay, competitive health and dental care coverage, a retirement plan, a very competitive vacation plan and unrivalled career advancement opportunities, to name just a few of our unique and generous benefits.
If you're looking for a place where you can take ownership for your work, where the pace is fast, the environment is built around the importance of open communication, and where employees are called "associates" and treated as such, then we want to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
Visit www.mars.com to learn more about our company and for information about all of our current openings. Please, no agencies.
Mars Inc. is a tobacco free workplace.
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with 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.
A strong focus on 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.
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Skills Required
- 5-10 years of relevant experience
- Four-year college degree
- Advanced problem-solving and analytical capabilities in a cross-functional team environment
- Strong Excel skillset for data manipulation and analysis
- Ability to manipulate information from various sources, analyze data, and make recommendations
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Integrated marketing or sales functional experience
- Experience as product owner or managing digital SRM/toolkit enhancements
- CPG 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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