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Mars UK • DEU-Lower Saxony-Verden | Germany

Internship Digital Market Strategy & Portfolio Marketing

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

With this internship, you can expect to experience a breadth of opportunity from understanding marketing portfolio and customer strategies, commercial and analytical delivery, whilst managing a network of stakeholders across full Europe. You will work with our talented international colleagues on our well known Petcare brands. Show us your creativity, analytical skillset and support our team in the full breadth of tasks. You will have opportunity to create your own network in the organization and to cooperate with our Marketing and Sales teams, plus building trust to our retail partners. At MARS, you are more than just an intern, you will be a fully integrated member of our team and can work on your own projects, of course continuously coached and mentored by our talented team.

What are we looking for?

  • You are a student aiming for your first/second degree or equivalent in a business related field of studies.

  • Ideally, first practical working experience or internships, ideally in the areas Marketing, Sales, Consulting or CPG (FMCG) industry.

  • Good analytical, presentation and communication skills

  • The ambition to take your own priorities and make a difference every day.

  • Experience in working with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

  • Good level and confidence to communicate on a daily base in English language.

What will be your key responsibilities?

  • You will support the European Digital Channel Portfolio Team in operational tasks, by deploying our portfolio strategy in the digital sales channels.

  • You will take the responsibility for your own (sub-) projects and have the opportunity to present the excellent results of your work.

  • You will monitor, analyse, and evaluate internal data and domestic and international market trends, client behavior and competitor activity to identify market opportunities for our products. With this you will build great skills on how to simplify the complex world around us!

  • You will learn how to provide shopper & customer insights and prepare product launches & relaunches.

  • Together we will create meaningful external sell-in decks for our demand teams.

  • You will support our Portfolio Leaders to develop, deploy and govern our strategies on a 5 year timeline.

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.

Start: asap

Duration: 6 months

Location: Verden (near Bremen)

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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
Neo-natal 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
LinkedIn learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

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