Jobs at Mars

Supports Mars Snacking sales operations through account management, promotional planning, deal sheet and deduction tracking, POS and consumption reporting, forecasting coordination, and customer business analysis. The role manages merchant relationships, provides category insights, supports pricing and launches, identifies account opportunities, and consolidates retail execution feedback while collaborating with sales and supply teams.

Supports sales strategy and customer marketing through annual planning, promotional effectiveness and ROI analysis, product launch tracking, process improvement, and cross-functional coordination. The role gathers and synthesizes commercial insights, monitors in-market performance, develops sales tools, tracks deliverables, evaluates campaign effectiveness, and helps marketing, sales, and demand planning teams execute customer growth plans.

Supports Mars Snacking brand strategy and activity plans across promotional, communication, merchandising, and digital initiatives. Analyzes sales, market audit, consumer research, and brand health data; develops recommendations, sales materials, and promotional programs; manages brand budgets; and collaborates cross-functionally with Customer Marketing and Consumer and Market Insights teams.

Manages Mars Food & Nutrition grocery accounts, driving profitable sales and share growth through trade management, pricing, promotions, assortment, merchandising, innovation, and customer negotiations. Develops joint business plans, forecasts demand, manages account budgets, analyzes syndicated data, coordinates cross-functional execution, and builds relationships with retail buying teams. The role is based in Bolton with regular office collaboration and approximately 10% travel.

Leads national key account strategy and a four-person sales team supporting major customers responsible for most annual sales. Oversees customer negotiations, business operations, financial controls, talent development, sales forecasting, S&OP demand planning, and e-commerce growth. Partners across Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Corporate Affairs, Digital, and regional teams to deliver business objectives, improve customer penetration, and execute sales strategies.

Manages category strategy and advises retail partners using syndicated, POS, shopper, consumer, and customer data. Develops assortment, shelving, merchandising, space planning, and modular recommendations; leads category planning, reporting, ad hoc analysis, and performance reviews. Presents actionable insights to customers and internal stakeholders, supports digital shelf optimization, and improves analytical tools and reporting processes.

Provides regional functional expertise and support for enterprise R&D systems across Mars business segments. Responsibilities include key-user escalation support, training and knowledge management, incident and SLA review, data-quality governance, change and capability implementation, UAT and end-to-end testing, system issue resolution, and deployment support. The role partners with business stakeholders, product owners, process owners, and technology teams to validate functionality, manage improvements, and support successful system rollouts.

Leads transfer pricing transformation within a global SAP S/4HANA program. Translates tax policies into intercompany process and system requirements, supports solution design, testing, deployment, controls, audit readiness, and true-up processes. Coordinates stakeholders across Tax, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and IT while managing risks, issues, documentation, training, and post-go-live stabilization.

Leads Royal Canin’s global commercial operations transition, including the Digital Core/SAP S/4HANA migration. Owns transformation roadmaps, business cases, budgets, timelines, governance, process deployment, risk management, stakeholder alignment, operational stabilization, tool migrations, and transition PMO oversight. The role manages teams, coordinates global operational hubs, chairs steering committees, ensures compliance with commercial standards, and drives continuous improvement across service lines.

Leads enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and transformation across Finance, FinTech, Legal, and Risk. Oversees product platforms, Agile and DevOps adoption, AI and data initiatives, digital transformation, change management, vendor partnerships, governance, and technology operations. Partners with executive stakeholders to align global priorities, integrate platforms, manage dependencies, and deliver scalable, secure, value-driven outcomes across a federated enterprise technology organization.

Leads sales finance across channels, including planning, forecasting, performance analytics, trade investment governance, customer P&Ls, and period-close reviews. Partners with Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance leadership to translate financial results into actions, manage risks and opportunities, support audits, and drive profitable growth. Oversees quarterly business reviews, collections and deductions monitoring, executive insights, and development of a high-performing finance team.

Leads European deployment of integration solutions within Mars’s S/4HANA-based digital transformation program. Manages vendor resources, regional planning, milestones, budgets, risks, KPIs, technical workshops, stakeholder alignment, and deployment strategy across markets. Requires strong integration expertise across APIs, events, EDI, and enterprise integration platforms, along with experience managing outsourced teams and complex multinational delivery environments.

Leads global ingredient science research across flavors, mint, seasonings, grains, rice, potatoes, and related categories. Defines long-term technology strategy, converts scientific discoveries into commercialized ingredients, strengthens supply resilience, governs flavor development, and identifies intellectual property opportunities. Manages a global team of scientists, ensures research quality and safety compliance, and partners with R&D, manufacturing, quality, supply, commercial, regulatory, suppliers, academia, and research consortia.

Leads North American indirect tax requirements and global tax data governance for an SAP S/4HANA transformation. Oversees U.S. and Canadian tax processes, tax determination, reporting, reconciliations, data standards, tax technology integrations, testing, deployment, audit readiness, and compliance. Partners across Tax, Finance, IT, Master Data, Analytics, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Shared Services to improve tax data quality and establish scalable global operating models.

Leads European statutory financial reporting and compliance workstreams within a global SAP S/4HANA transformation. Defines local GAAP, IFRS, financial statement, disclosure, and regulatory reporting requirements; integrates them into global templates; and oversees design, testing, deployment, governance, controls, cutover, and hypercare. Partners with Finance, Controllership, Tax, IT, shared services, country teams, system integrators, and auditors to ensure compliant multi-country reporting solutions.

Lead discovery, rapid prototyping, and deployment of production-ready AI solutions for supply chain and manufacturing. Build Python-based RAG pipelines, semantic search, multi-agent workflows, data integrations, and enterprise platform connections. Engage frontline operations, translate business needs into technical requirements, manage agile delivery, and ensure prototypes are scalable and transferable to core engineering teams. Work across SAP, MES, shop-floor platforms, databases, telemetry, and unstructured data while collaborating with security, data, and architecture teams.

Build and refine AI-powered prototypes for supply chain and manufacturing operations. Engage with factory and warehouse teams, translate operational needs into software requirements, develop Python-based RAG and agentic systems, integrate APIs and data sources, and iterate prototypes based on frontline feedback. The role involves SQL and document data preparation, agile collaboration, occasional manufacturing-site travel, and progressive adoption of enterprise AI frameworks and production engineering practices.

Lead sourcing strategies and category management for marketing content, especially market research and insights. Manage global/regional supplier contracts, drive harmonization and automation, partner with senior marketing stakeholders, provide market and financial insights, mentor junior colleagues, and deliver cross-functional projects across the Content team.

Leads the identification, development, testing, and scaling of AI and automation solutions across internal delivery processes and future customer-facing use cases. Builds automated test suites, scripts repetitive workflows, pilots generative AI and agentic tools, creates reusable automation assets, tracks measurable value, and enables teams through training and knowledge sharing. Collaborates with project managers, product owners, process owners, testing communities, and delivery teams to ensure maintainable, responsible, and broadly adopted solutions.

Lead end-to-end change communications for a global e-invoicing transformation. Develop stakeholder impact assessments, communication and training plans, leadership materials, targeted adoption campaigns, and consistent programme messaging. Coordinate with PMO, project leads, global business stakeholders, and Corporate Affairs. Monitor engagement and communication effectiveness while supporting readiness, implementation, adoption, and business continuity across suppliers, customers, and finance operations.