Jobs at Mars

Leads the Gum and Mints portfolio as a general manager, owning brand strategy, innovation, portfolio growth, marketing execution, budgets, P&L decisions, and revenue, share, profit, and brand equity objectives. Builds annual operating plans, develops consumer-led commercial programs, manages agency and cross-functional partnerships, collaborates with global teams, and mentors marketing talent.

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.

Develop and execute territory sales strategies for pet specialty retailers across Toronto and surrounding areas. Build customer relationships, manage account segmentation in Salesforce, drive distribution and sales performance, execute merchandising and Perfect Store standards, monitor KPIs, coordinate with account and trade marketing teams, manage expenses, and process retail credits. The role requires retail sales experience, regional travel, physical product handling, and a valid driver’s license.

Leads customer-centric growth strategies across sales and marketing, including innovation commercialization, shopper activation, annual planning, customer marketing, and promotional programs. Partners with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Category Leadership, agencies, and other stakeholders to translate brand and consumer strategies into customer execution plans. Manages external agencies, budgets, timelines, cross-functional teams, and performance evaluation to drive business growth and execution excellence.

Manages and grows a defined territory by developing partner relationships, acquiring new customers, conducting in-person sales calls, educating pet professionals on nutrition programs, forecasting sales, and delivering revenue objectives. The role uses Salesforce and territory data to build growth strategies, attends events, collaborates cross-functionally, and requires extensive driving and approximately 50 overnight stays annually.

Develop and execute internal communications strategies for Mars Snacking across North America, primarily Canada. The role aligns Associates with business objectives, leads town halls and webcasts, creates executive and change communications, develops content across multiple channels, supports inclusion and people initiatives, measures communication impact, and ensures consistency with external communications. Responsibilities include speechwriting, storytelling, intranet content, scripting, and identifying organizational success stories.

Supports Mars Pet Nutrition sales teams through account operations, promotional tracking, deduction management, POS and consumption reporting, trade spend reconciliation, forecasting, scorecarding, and KPI analysis. Provides category insights and recommendations to improve customer business plans, promotional execution, distribution, display, shelf, pricing, launches, and forecast accuracy. Coordinates with internal teams and customers while communicating retail execution opportunities and issues.

Leads Champion Petfoods’ Canadian ecommerce strategy and commercial roadmap across online retail platforms. Responsibilities include account management, catalogue onboarding, forecasting, supply chain coordination, digital shelf optimization, retail media investment, pricing governance, promotional execution, and performance analytics. The role owns channel growth, profitability, P&L or trade budgets, brand integrity, and cross-functional alignment across Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Operations.

Manage trade expenditure processes for the French market, including customer agreements, trade conditions, claims, settlements, reconciliations, accruals, rebates, and financial reporting. Support month-end and year-end close, forecasting, budgeting, audits, governance, and process improvements. Collaborate with Sales, Finance, Trade teams, Key Account Managers, and international stakeholders while maintaining accurate data across Xtel, Atlas, SAP, BlackLine, and TPM tools.

Leads commercial sourcing, negotiations, contracting, supplier relationship management, and risk mitigation across Mars segments and regional spend. The role secures pricing, capacity, service levels, and supplier performance while ensuring policy compliance and supporting category teams, buyers, requisitioners, and business stakeholders. It also identifies process improvements, communicates risks and opportunities, and provides insights into supplier performance and purchasing trends.

Lead end-to-end change communications for a global e-invoicing transformation. Develop communication and training strategies, assess stakeholder impacts, create audience-specific content, prepare leadership updates, support adoption, coordinate with global teams, and monitor engagement and communication effectiveness.

Leads the Integration Hub deployment program, overseeing centralized and local interface deployments across markets, factories, and trading partners. Manages a team and third-party resources, including planning, budgets, scope, milestones, risks, governance, and delivery quality. Engages stakeholders from analyst to executive levels, leads workshops and change management, coordinates steering groups, and ensures integration delivery aligns with enterprise architecture and long-term digital transformation strategy.

Leads end-to-end delivery of global R&D analytics and data initiatives, managing plans, budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, stakeholders, vendors, and transitions to business-as-usual operations. The role aligns analytics roadmaps with enterprise technology standards, coordinates cross-functional teams, prepares portfolio reporting, and applies Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methods to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Lead end-to-end delivery of global IT and digital R&D projects from investment case through business-as-usual handover. Manage project portfolios, vendors, resources, budgets, and delivery across discovery, prototyping, pilots, MVPs, and existing platforms. Partner with product owners, SMEs, enterprise architecture, and global stakeholders while applying Agile and Waterfall methodologies and Mars project management standards.

Leads end-to-end delivery of digital R&D and laboratory technology initiatives, managing plans, budgets, risks, dependencies, vendors, governance, stakeholders, and BAU transitions. Coordinates global cross-functional teams across business and technology, supports analytics and data initiatives, aligns projects with enterprise roadmaps, and applies Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methods to deliver compliant, scalable capabilities.

Leads global AI-first MarTech engineering strategy, architecture, governance, compliance, and delivery. Oversees scalable digital platforms, public-facing properties, GenAI applications, R&D, proof-of-concepts, and automated compliance capabilities. Builds and mentors a global team of engineering and AI professionals, manages vendors, and partners with marketing, business, cloud, security, privacy, infrastructure, and legal stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance digital experiences.

Owns period-end accounting close, balance sheet reviews, account reconciliations, journal entries, financial reporting, and audit support across legal entities. The role ensures accurate and timely financial information, identifies risks and opportunities, coordinates external finance service providers, and partners with business stakeholders. It requires accounting and finance expertise, US GAAP knowledge, SAP and Excel experience, leadership capabilities, and fluent English.

Serve as the subject matter expert for global vendor payments and Travel and Expense reimbursements within a Source-to-Pay transformation program. Design and standardize future-state processes, support testing and country validation, identify automation opportunities, and coordinate with Treasury, Finance, Procurement, Digital Technologies, and regional stakeholders. Contribute to change management, training, documentation, deployment, and continuous improvement while addressing global and country-specific requirements.

Leads transfer pricing requirements, operating model design, process transformation, and SAP S/4HANA deployment within a global ERP program. Serves as the transfer pricing subject matter expert, translating tax policies into intercompany processes, system requirements, calculations, allocations, testing, controls, and deployment activities. Coordinates stakeholders across Tax, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Units, Shared Services, and IT while supporting compliance, audit readiness, UAT, change management, and post-go-live stabilization.

Design high-level integration solutions for Mars’s SAP S/4HANA Digital Core/EOS transformation. The role translates business requirements into composable, reusable interfaces using APIs, events, iPaaS, and EDI; manages performance, security, data, and infrastructure requirements; influences solution architecture; supports delivery through production deployment; and collaborates with enterprise architects, system integrators, technology leads, and external experts.