Mars 2024 Graduate Program - NZ Sales & Marketing

The Role

Are you excited about kicking off the first step of your career and want to play a key role in our Sales and Marketing team at Mars? Are you humble, driven for success, and someone who can turn feedback into a personal learning opportunity? Do you operate by a set of values and care about the impact your work has on our global communities? If this sounds like you and you are ready to learn and grow with a company that values your development and career, we want to hear from you! 

Our Mars Sales and Marketing role is a two year, accelerated development program designed to set you up for success on your path to becoming a future leader at Mars. You will develop across two assignments within the Sales and Marketing function, which are real roles, delivering real results for Mars. 

Key Responsibilities 

SELLING: The ability to be able to persuade and influence action from the Customer by understanding their needs and then articulating product benefits, value propositions and business solutions to meet those needs.

CREATE COMPELLING CAMPAIGNS: Assist in development compelling marketing and innovation plans that are anchored consumer, shopper, category, and customer insights.

CALL EFFECTIVENESS: The ability to execute a structured and effective field sales/retail call with ongoing measurement for continual improvement.

CONSUMER CHAMPION: Develop a strong understanding of our consumers, leveraging insights to ensure the consumer is at the heart of everything we do

BUILDING WINNING RELATIONSHIPS: The ability to build strategic alignment with our Customers and develop and leverage collaborative cross functional internal relationships. The benefits of this will be ensuring we unlock mutual business development opportunities and execute winning Marketing plans and campaigns.

LEVERAGE INSIGHTS INTO ACTION: The ability to analyze a wide range of knowledge and data into insight that creates foresight and recommended action which delivers business opportunities for the company and our Customers.

What does a successful Mars graduate look like? 

• Energetic and Passionate: a love for the food industry is a must!
• Humble: you understand that success comes from teamwork, and you enjoy celebrating wins with your teammates
• Driven: Delivering tangible outcomes is important to you and you are passionate about ensuring the role you play is contributing to the bigger picture
• Analytical: You are logical and methodical when identifying the best solution for a difficult problem. You won’t stop at the first answer and apply critical thinking to look beyond the obvious and understand the issue at hand
• Curious: You are curious about the world you work in and want to explore new ideas and new ways of working. You understand that there can be many failed attempts before finding the best way
• Adaptable: You thrive in a changing environment and can adapt when things are up in the air. You enjoy the challenge of unfamiliar tasks

What can you expect from Mars NZ?

• Genuine career progression with a focus on you and your career goals. Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University
• Global health and wellbeing program to support flexibility and work-life balance.
• Opportunity to make a difference with our volunteer and ambassador programs.
• Be part of a company that is contributing to making the world a better place today and every day through our sustainable generation plan.
• A culture that offers collaboration, and leadership and rewards you for the role you play within Mars.

Who are we looking for

• University students from a variety of degrees, preferably Business and/or Commerce disciplines
• Passion for FMCG industry
• Drive to become the leader of tomorrow in your field of interest
• Humble and driven graduates who are ready to learn
• AU/NZ citizenship or permanent residency

About Us:

Mars is behind some of the best loved brands in the world across multiple segments including Mars Pet Nutrition, Mars Wrigley, Mars Food and Mars Edge. We are a family business that’s been making products for people (and the pets that people love) for more than 100 years. We are 130,000+ self-proclaimed Martians—we’re pet obsessed, confectionery lovers, foodies, dream chasers and community builders— working across more than 75 different countries.
Here in New Zealand, we are a family of over 200 associates based in Auckland. We are a diverse, extended family that wakes up every morning ready to make an impact—on our business and on the world. And we do it by keeping The Five Principles at the heart of everything we do: Quality, Efficiency, Responsibility, Mutuality and Freedom. These principles inform our decisions and unite us across geographies, languages, cultures, and generations. A role at Mars New Zealand provides you with a unique combination of diverse experiences and learnings, meaning that you can get the career you want tomorrow.

For more information visit careers.mars.com  

Mars Australia & New Zealand is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.