Set the roadmap for excellence in execution to deliver our growth and financial shape ambitions.

Make it Mean More at Mars

Here’s a unique, challenging role overseeing our Retail Excellence Team to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness of field sales operations in all sales channels across our wider chocolate business.  As Retail Excellence Manager, you’ll set the road map for medium term continuous improvement projects, reporting to our Retail Excellence Director and working closely with Channel Directors and other Sales Associates to define and prioritise those projects.  Using your rigorous understanding of business, market, segment and brands to help shape strategy for the physical availability agenda, you’ll:

• manage the creation and delivery of the operating plan
• provide clarity on our performance, communicating performance vs targets and recommending actions
• develop and deliver strategic projects to improve short- and/or long-term segment performance.

Of graduate calibre and high potential, you’re a proven project manager with a real grasp of retail sales, including back office experience, although not necessarily within trading/account management.  What is essential is your skill in analysing data to draw out compelling insights, underpinned by your ability to work to longer, strategic deadlines as well as managing several concurrent projects.  A strong influencer, able to take others with you to facilitate change, you’re high-impact with first-class stakeholder management skills.  Together with robust internal customer and stakeholder management capability, you can also bring:

• the ability to manage vision and purpose
• organisational agility
• experience of leveraging insights
• familiarity with business process improvement.

Mars Inc. is a family-owned company with worldwide annual sales of over £24billion. Since 1932 we’ve been producing iconic brands in the UK, including Mars Bar, Twix, Pedigree and Whiskas, in addition to other globally admired products such as Galaxy, Uncle Ben’s and Dolmio. 

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