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Mars

Mars

www.mars.com

9 Jobs

62,008 Employees

About the Company

We’re a unified force of 150,000+ Associates, taking action every day toward the world we want tomorrow.

Our Five Principles have kept us true to ourselves and to our commitment to treat others in ways that are consistent with those values. Having stood the test of time, these principles will continue, keeping us free to move quickly and plan for the future.

Quality - The consumer is our boss, quality is our work and value for money is our goal.

Responsibility - As individuals, we demand total responsibility from ourselves; as Associates, we support the responsibilities of others.

Mutuality - A mutual benefit is a shared benefit; a shared benefit will endure.

Efficiency - We use resources to the full, waste nothing and do only what we can do best.

Freedom - We need freedom to shape our future; we need profit to remain free.

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Listed Jobs

Company background Company brand
Company Name
Mars
Job Title
Platform Engineer
Job Description
Platform Engineer

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, 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 our 130,000 Diverse Associates to act daily towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

Job Description:

The Platform Engineering team manages the platform layer in our global cloud environments that serve data and analytics use cases and application development across Mars. The Platform Engineer role will be responsible for the delivery of new technologies and automation of services. They will play a crucial role in the research and roll out of new solutions to meet the multi-dimensional needs of our customers, enabling our businesses to pursue aggressive digital strategies.

What are we looking for?
University degree in the field of Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
1+ years of experience with cloud engineering and/or software development
Understanding of building and deploying services in the cloud, Azure, AWS, GCP
Proficiency in at least one scripting language, PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, etc.
Advantage if experienced with Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes
Exposure in working in a collaborative team environment
Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

What will be your key responsibilities?
Design, implement & support platform capabilities using Azure, AWS & GCP
Working with technical development team on scope and delivery of self-service platform templates
Become a subject matter expert in new technologies introduced to the platform
Leverage product management/agile frameworks to flesh out business requirements
Enhance CI/CD pipelines & automate infrastructure deployment
Implement monitoring, alerting & observability solutions
Maintain technical documentation & runbooks

What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus
#TBDDT

Disclaimer: Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.
Slough, United Kingdom
Hybrid
01-04-2025
Company background Company brand
Company Name
Mars
Job Title
Junior Platform Engineer
Job Description
Junior Platform Engineer

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, 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 our 130,000 Diverse Associates to act daily towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

Job Description:

The Platform Engineering team manages the platform layer in our global cloud environments that serve data and analytics use cases and application development across Mars. The Platform Engineer role will be responsible for the delivery of new technologies and automation of services. They will play a crucial role in the research and roll out of new solutions to meet the multi-dimensional needs of our customers, enabling our businesses to pursue aggressive digital strategies.

What are we looking for?
University degree in the field of Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
1+ years of experience with cloud engineering and/or software development
Understanding of building and deploying services in the cloud, Azure, AWS, GCP
Proficiency in at least one scripting language, PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, etc.
Advantage if experienced with Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes
Exposure in working in a collaborative team environment
Solid written and verbal communication skills in English

What will be your key responsibilities?
Design, implement & support platform capabilities using Azure, AWS & GCP
Working with technical development team on scope and delivery of self-service platform templates
Become a subject matter expert in new technologies introduced to the platform
Leverage product management/agile frameworks to flesh out business requirements
Enhance CI/CD pipelines & automate infrastructure deployment
Implement monitoring, alerting & observability solutions
Maintain technical documentation & runbooks

What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus
#TBDDT

Disclaimer: Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.
Slough, United Kingdom
Hybrid
02-04-2025
Company background Company brand
Company Name
Mars
Job Title
Director, Data Architecture
Job Description
Job Description

Are you passionate about Data and Analytics (D&A) and excited about how it can completely transform the way an enterprise works? Do you have the strategic vision, technical expertise, and leadership skills to drive data-driven solutions? Do you want to work in a dynamic, fast-growing category? If so, you might be the ideal candidate for the role of Director, Data Architecture, in the Data and Analytics function for Global Pet Nutrition (PN) at Mars.

Pet Nutrition (PN) is the most vibrant category in the FMCG sector. As we work to transform this exciting category, a new program, Digital First, has been mobilized by the Mars Pet Nutrition (PN) leadership team. Digital First places pet parents at the center of all we do in Mars PN, while digitalizing a wide range of business process areas, and creating future fit capabilities to achieve ambitious targets in top line growth, earnings, and pet parent centricity. The Digital First agenda requires Digitizing at scale and requires you to demonstrate significant thought leadership, quality decision making, deep technical know-how, and an ability to navigate complex business challenges while building and leading a team of world class data and analytics practitioners.

With Digital First, PN is moving to a Product based model to create business facing digital capabilities. The Director - Data Architecture is a strategic role that oversees defining, designing, and implementing the data architecture strategy to support to our success. This role is accountable for data design principles, technology expertise, and the ability to align data architecture initiatives for the multi-billion-dollar Pet Nutrition division’s digital needs. Reporting to the Sr. Director- Data Foundations (Global Pet Nutrition), the person in this role will be a part of the Global PN Data foundation Leadership team. The role operates globally and partners with PN D&A leaders, PN business and digital leaders across all functions. In addition, this role will be working closely with cross-divisional and cross-segment data teams to drive synergies and leverage best practices

What are we looking for?

As part of Digital First, a new role has been created to build the foundational data capabilities that will power all our analytics products and create transformational business impact for the Pet Nutrition Division.

This role encompasses data architecture and enterprise data domains that support the business goals and analytics needs of the Pet Nutrition segment.

This role will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, data strategy and governance, engineering, data science, and business development.

The role serves as part of the global digital organization focused on enabling data driven decision making.

This role will also collaborate with and influence other D&A and Digital Technologies leaders across Mars to align on data standards, best practices, and emerging technologies.

What will be your key responsibilities?

Mars Principles: Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
Develop Data Architecture Strategy: Define and implement a comprehensive data architecture strategy that supports the Pet Nutrition’s business strategic priorities, enables efficient data management, scalability, and end-to-end solution architecture delivery.
Lead Architecture Initiatives: Provide leadership and direction to the architecture team in designing, implementing, and maintaining data architecture solutions
Data Design: Drive the design of conceptual, logical, and physical data models to ensure data consistency, integrity, and reusability across the organization.
Enterprise data domain ownership: Collaborate with Pet Nutrition’s business and Digital foundation teams to design enterprise level data domain map that meet business requirements, ensuring alignment with data and platform architecture principles.
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with PN D&A leadership, PN product owners, and segment D&A leadership to articulate the strategic value of data and advocate for investments in data capabilities and policies.
Team and resource management: Hire, build, lead and manage multilocational teams covering data, architecture, data modelling, and governance throughout the development lifecycle, from ideation to ongoing optimization. Manage budget allocation.
Performance Monitoring: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement monitoring systems for deployed data architecture principles to ensure efficient D&A operations

What can you expect from Mars?

Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

This role is a project-based transformation role and has a current expected end date of ‘31st December 2026’.

#TBDDT

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.
London, United Kingdom
On site
10-04-2025
Company background Company brand
Company Name
Mars
Job Title
Data Engineer
Job Description
Job Description

Data and Analytics is foundational to our Petcare OGSM goal to transform the experience of pet ownership through digitalisation at scale. To deliver on this ambition set by this OGSM we require the very highest level of technical / engineering expertise within Global Petcare Data & Analytics. There is a need to expand this high performing team of creative, skilled individuals – to help build out new capabilities and bring fresh ideas to the table, particularly around real-time consumer data to feed marketing use cases.

Key Responsibilities

Engineer and orchestrate data flows & pipelines in a cloud environment using a progressive tech stack e.g. Databricks, Spark, Python, PySpark, Delta Lake, SQL, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, ADLS, Parquet, Neo4J, Flask
Ingest and integrate data from a large number of disparate data sources
Design and build complex data models for analytical and marketing use cases
Write high quality code contributing to a platform which is scalable and easy to maintain
Work closely with analysts, data scientists and technology partners to understand their requirements
Exercise fluid communication with your team of data engineers
Adopt DevOps & CI/CD methodologies to collaborate on a growing platform
Enthusiastically evolve your technical skillset, engage in training and learn new technologies and techniques
Tackle challenging project tasks demonstrating ownership and responsibility

Skills Required

Experience in processing data using Spark / Databricks or similar
Experience working in a cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Experience in at least one of: Python (or similar), SQL, PySpark
Experience in building data pipeline/ETL/ELT solutions
Ability and strong desire to research and learn new technologies and languages Interest in the contemporary data engineering and analytics landscape, the current tools, the latest approaches

Nice To Have

Highly advantageous - Experience with consumer data In a real-time environment
Advantageous - Microsoft Azure cloud technologies e.g. Blob Storage, ADLS, Azure DevOps, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, ADF, Azure Event Hub
Advantageous - Experience with Delta Live Tables (DLT) or Data Build Tool (DBT)
Advantageous - Delta Lake storage layer
Advantageous - Neo4J / Cypher

What can you expect from Mars?

Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

#TBDDT

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.
London, United Kingdom
On site
13-04-2025