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Mars UK • USA-Tennessee-Franklin | United States of America

Associate Media Manager

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

Associate Media Manager

Franklin, TN

On-site

The Associate Media Manager role is centralized role will be responsible for building superior performance media capabilities for multiple brands in the Mars Petcare portfolio. As the Associate Media Manager, you will lead national media strategy and execution across a variety of programmatic media partners (including Google, Yahoo, Amazon Advertising, WMC, etc.), Search (Google, Bing) and social media partners (including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.), all with a focus on driving to conversion. The role will be responsible for defining and rolling out scalable solutions, best practices, and frequent learnings to advance Mars Petcare media efforts across key brand initiatives.

What are we looking for?

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or experience in a relevant field required

  • 2+ years’ experience in biddable media (strategy, partners, tactics, etc.) with solid Industry relationships

  • Proven Performance Marketing Track Record with demonstrated results

  • Proficiency in paid media planning, and buying with an emphasis on biddable channels: programmatic, search and social media

  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects with both short- and long-term components

  • Strong communication skills (oral and written)

  • Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to build strong relationships and to collaborate effectively cross-functionally

  • Experience partnering directly with brand marketers, agencies, and vendor partners to advance biddable social & programmatic media initiatives

What would be your key responsibilities?

  • Collaboration in crafting holistic media strategy and its execution (in collaboration with agencies) including recommended tactics for each individual brand, based on business goals and communication objectives

  • Provide regular media consultation to the brand teams and other cross-functional internal and external partners on all matters related to media

  • Seek to increase efficacy of media via ongoing analysis and optimization of programs, streamlining processes, benchmarking, and developing and leading structured test & learns, as well as conducting education and training for brand teams and other key stakeholders.

  • Collaborate with CMI, agency partners, media vendors and measurement partners to identify, develop, and implement test & learns for media, and then package/present the results (including via Learning Agenda progress recaps, in-campaign reporting and frequent share outs with brand teams, global partners and cross-functional partners

  • Prioritize optimizations to drive greater effectiveness and efficiency and eliminate overlap, redundancies, and inefficient investment

  • Lead development and implementation of educational sessions, playbooks, and position papers to build marketing department capabilities and ensure proven solutions are scaled to deliver best-in-class performance

  • Craft strategies and tests to gather learnings against emerging performance marketing trends, and push innovation agenda with our strategic media partners

What can you expect from Mars?

  • Opportunity to bring your pet to work.

  • Commitment to create a safe, healthy, and sustainable world for our partners and the communities in which we operate.

  • Commitment to make A Better World For Pets™ a world where they’re healthy, happy and welcome

  • Commitment to our consumers and focus on positively impacting the planet and the population.

This role is based in Franklin, TN with regular in-office collaboration expected. Flexibility is a key enabler—empowering associates to make choices that support both business outcomes and personal needs, including occasional remote work.

Mars does not sponsor visas for this role.

This position is not eligible for relocation benefits.

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Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neonatal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
Learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

Working at Mars UK

Company employees:

4,000 In the UK

Gender diversity (m:f):

57:43

Hiring in countries

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

France

Germany

Awards & Accreditations

1st - Most Family Friendly Company

1st - Most Family Friendly Company

Flexa awards 2026
3rd - Best Workplace Benefits

3rd - Best Workplace Benefits

Flexa awards 2026
Most loved - Large companies

Top 5 - Most loved - Large companies

Flexa awards 2026
Best Work-Life Balance

Top 10 - Best Work-Life Balance

Flexa awards 2026
1st - Most Family Friendly Company

1st - Most Family Friendly Company

Flexa awards 2025
2nd – Pet Friendly

2nd – Pet Friendly

Flexa awards 2025
Most Flexible Company

Top 5 - Most Flexible Company

Flexa awards 2025
Most Inclusive Company

Top 5 - Most Inclusive Company

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Best Work-Life Balance

Top 10 - Best Work-Life Balance

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Best Career Progression

Top 10 - Best Career Progression

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Best Workplace Culture

Best Workplace Culture

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Best Workplace Benefits

Best Workplace Benefits

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1st – Large companies

1st – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
Consumer Goods

Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023
3rd – Large companies

3rd – Large companies

Flexa100 2023
Retail & Ecommerce

Retail & Ecommerce

Industry awards 2022

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