Jobs at Mars

Leads regional retail sales execution across Western Canada, managing District Sales Managers and ensuring product distribution, merchandising, performance development, training, compliance, relationships, reporting, and budget control. The role collaborates with Retail Operations, Sales, Finance, and Marketing teams, conducts weekly field visits, and travels approximately 25% of the time.

Analyzes pet nutrition category performance, promotions, assortment, shelving, and planograms to develop actionable recommendations for retail partners. Builds retailer relationships, provides reporting and category insights, supports strategic planning, creates shelf plans using JDA, and ensures compliance with retailer policies and industry standards.

Lead development and execution of trade investment and promotional strategy to drive profitable growth and improve trade ROI. Partner with Sales, Brand and cross-functional teams to build budgets, annual promotional plans, and compliance to guidelines. Perform event-level Trade ROI and promotional landscape analysis to identify opportunities and present insights to senior leaders and customer teams.

Lead demand planning and the Sales forecast for Mars Snacking. Align Sales and Supply, publish periodic forecasts with adjustments, drive forecast accuracy, manage supply constraints, lead forecast communications and SFA improvements, and follow quality and food safety policies.

Execute day-to-day direct and indirect tax activities for Canadian business units, ensuring compliance, reporting, filings, tax cash forecasting and budgeting. Support tax controversy, transfer pricing, CRA audit requests, tax provision review, payments coordination, ERP and data reporting integrations, and continuous improvement projects while working with finance, Global Tax, Treasury, and external advisors.

Lead supplier quality assurance for raw materials in Palatant and Essentials categories. Conduct supplier audits, drive corrective actions and continuous improvement, manage inbound supply risks, support non-conformance investigations, assess material risk, and collaborate with Commercial, R&D, and Supply stakeholders to ensure product safety and specification conformance.

Leads global strategic sourcing and procurement for digital technology and Food & Nutrition categories. Manages $125M+ in spend, SaaS and professional services suppliers, sourcing strategies, RFPs, contracts, supplier governance, performance, risk, and cost optimization. Partners with senior stakeholders, Legal, Infosec, sourcing teams, and suppliers to support digital transformation, standardization, automation, and commercial objectives.

Own end-to-end intercompany accounting operations, ensure timely accurate financial close and reporting, partner with Controllership, Tax and FP&A, drive process standardization, KPIs and continuous improvement, oversee external service providers, and lead automation and control-strengthening initiatives.

Lead internal audit strategy, system administration, and advanced analytics. Administer Optro (Auditboard), build executive BI dashboards, ensure data integrity, support audit methodology and QAIP, participate in audits and fraud reporting, and present findings to senior leadership.

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.

Define and lead global trade promotion, budgeting, and accrual validation processes. Drive standardization, process improvements, automation and KPI-based transformation. Support ERP/TPM system enablement and reporting, collaborate with finance, controllership, MGSF and segment stakeholders to optimize promotional spend and ensure financial control.

Partner with Sustainability, Risk, Legal and corporate teams to translate regulatory and reporting needs into scalable data and analytics solutions. Create proofs of concept (basic coding, Power BI), define functional requirements, ensure data quality, and support solution design, integration, and delivery-ready artifacts for sustainability reporting and analytics.

Translate sustainability strategy, regulatory needs, and emerging risks into scalable data and analytics solutions. Advise senior stakeholders, define solution patterns and delivery-ready artifacts, lead proof-of-concept work (basic coding, Power BI), ensure data quality, auditability, and compliance, and mentor Solution Engineers to embed best practices.

The Manufacturing Lead is responsible for designing manufacturing capabilities using SAP S/4 HANA, collaborating with various teams for global deployment, and ensuring solution interoperability across segments.

The Trade Finance Analyst manages trade expenditures, calculates TREX accruals, reconciles balance sheet accounts, supports TPM system implementation, and analyzes trade-related payments and invoices for the France market.