Retail Associate Marketing Manager, Global M&M’S Retail

Job Description: Job Title: Retail Associate Marketing Manager, Global M&M’S Retail Job Summary The M&M’S Retail Associate Marketing Manager will play a critical role in positioning the M&M’S Retail Stores as the heart of the M&M’S brand experience. This dynamic role blends brand marketing with cross-functional collaboration, media plan execution, and in-store activation to connect with our guests in meaningful ways. You will be responsible for translating our brand strategy into exciting, traffic-driving activities for our stores around the world.

What Will Be Your Key Responsibilities? Understand how to translate the M&M’S Brand Strategy into traffic-driving activities for our M&M’S Stores globally, including creating marketing plans to increase awareness of store locations, signature in-store experiences, and new merchandise offerings. Partner with retail media and creative agency teams to develop multi-dimensional support plans behind key retail activations and seasonal moments. Understand marketing plan performance and offer recommendations to increase the effectiveness of plans and identify new opportunities for growth.

Manage marketing spend, including budget tracking, financial management, and the raising and processing of Purchase Orders (POs). Develop and present regular reports on marketing performance, highlighting key metrics, learnings, and opportunities for optimization. Partner with Human Intelligence to leverage guest data and brand insights to better optimize marketing plans. Represent marketing within cross-functional teams against the development and deployment of key brand initiatives and marketing of new product launches.

Stay ahead of emerging retail marketing trends, competitor moves, and market shifts to identify growth opportunities and respond proactively. What Are We Looking For? Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred 2+ years of Marketing work experience, ideally in Branded Retail Strong communication skills (oral, written, listening), including the ability to give effective presentations to all levels of management. High levels of interpersonal skills, specifically influencing without direct authority, resolving conflict, and creative problem-solving.

Proven analytic skills are a must, including comfort with mining and analyzing data to develop clear and actionable conclusions. Work experience within CPG or Retail industries 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 are 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.

The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.

The pay range shown is applicable to all US locations listed within the job posting:USD 79,280.00 - USD 109,010.00 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 140,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
• Minimum 2 years marketing experience, ideally in branded retail or CPG
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and analytic skills with experience in data-driven decision making