A mutually rewarding experience.

Work. Realize your ambitions. And realize there’s more to being in business than just making a profit. That’s the Mars philosophy. And the opportunity we offer every one of our Associates. An opportunity to take what you do and make it mean more for you, for those around you and for the planet.  What you get here is challenging, interesting work. You get the tools you need to do a great job and you get to have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. And at the same time as getting to find ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday and driving a great career, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability.

Because it’s never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It’s about how you can grab everything that’s within your reach here and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It’s about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we’ll all be a little better off. It’s that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

About Mars, Incorporated 

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

 

Overview: 

By being a brand custodian, this position builds up and execute Lucas marketing brand activities designed to achieve specific business objectives, including: NSV, share of market, financial shape and penetration targets. As well as the Brand Plans and presence within the US through our LTE business.

 

Key Responsabilities: 

Brand Management

• Assist brand’s strategy considering sustainable, accelerated, and profitable shape
• Collect and analyze market, consumer and brand data, to support and develop the activity set and portfolio management for local market within the brand plans
• Analyze and review brand performance shaping business recommendations
• Connect with cross functional teams to support activity set development, that ensures delivery of key brand initiatives in market
• Implement marketing brand plan & innovation activities, supported by on-going performance analysis, portfolio management during internal process
• Assist media strategy & managing social profiles, co-leaded with digital external partner

Project Management & Leadership

• Lead Lucas plans – activation, innovation & profitability – with excellence, including cross-functional collaboration to ensure quality and readiness of plans, tracking of performance in market, course-correction and learnings to improve future performance
• Lead S&OP Projects: Deliver all main S&OP process main deliverables (PC,PB, AB, ER, Volume 1,2,3) as well as execution and post launch review.

LTE

• Owner for ensuring consistent growth within US territories, identifying portfolio/formats opportunities and developing the ad hoc innovation pipeline for this channel.
• Artworks process: Owner of "Dragonfly" process. Responsible to ensure execution of artworks to meet core & innovation needs.

 

 

Context & Scope: 

Partnership with Key internal Stakeholders:

• SDL core partners: Customer Marketing & SRM.
• Multifunctional team: S&OP CBD (Sales & Operations), financial co-pilots, Demand Planners and logistic.
• Content team: Regional

Partnership with Key Global & Local Business Partners: Agile Creative Agencies, Media Agencies & Digital Agencies.

 

Key Challenges: Contribute to deliver Lucas Brand Vision: To become and iconic brand for young generations by connecting with their most intense interests (Mid Tier innovation, Spicy Experiences, building Brand positioning leveraging in the music interest). Implement marketing brand plan & innovation activities ensuring outstanding performance within the market, internal value creation due to a collaborative work with functional areas.

 

What we are looking for: 

• Marketing/Business/Engineering Degree or similar
• Advanced English (Oral/Written)
• Ideally 1-2 years of experience/Internships
• Excellent communication and networking skills
• Demonstrated success in leading within a cross-functional team
• Ability to leverage their analytical skills to drive plans and deliver growth.
• Basic financial P&L understanding

If you are interested please apply before  October 8th

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, 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.