What are we looking for?

• Strong composure, presentation skills and professional polish
• Exceptional writing skills, both technically and as a storyteller
• Attention to detail
• Understanding of internal communications practices and processes, including two-way channels and pull and push methods of communication
• Ability to remain flexible and resilient under pressure
• Comfortable around key decision makers and business leaders/Experience with senior leaders
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and handle sensitive, confidential information
• Experience in consulting (internal or external )
• Experience in program development / management or strategy execution across variety of topics and situations
• Working in a high-performance team environment (meaning the associate can candidly give and receive feedback)

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Purpose Communications

  This Associate will be an active member on the Purpose Working Team, along with colleagues in external communications, Brand and public affairs. The work will include collaborative initiatives to build the Mars Brand, differentiated by Purpose with responsibility to drive Associates’ personal connection to the Purpose along with the cohesive strategy and collective goals of the team and Steer Co. This work may include storytelling, engaging action through our internal platform “Mars Acts,” and active sponsorship of campaigns the drive Purpose and Reputation. This Associate will manage the administration and executive reporting from annual Purpose Pulse Survey to bring qualitative analysis to future Purpose planning and to support our MLTs objectives around Purpose.

  Compass Communications

  The Mars Compass provides the shareholder objectives for Mars, Incorporated. It demonstrates our owners’ commitment to measure our progress as a business across multiple dimensions of financial performance, quality growth, positive social impact and the trust our partners have in us. This Associate will have a leading role for content within the annual report to our shareholders on the business’s performance against those objectives and a supporting role in delivering the accompanying annual meeting. There will also be opportunities to evolve and integrate the Mars Compass into internal communications.

  Managing a regular cadence of communications to critical audiences

  This Associate will support quarterly broadcasts with Mars Senior Leaders as well as quarterly business updates with Mars Family members. This will require proactive agenda setting and content development with senior stakeholders in Corporate as well as our business segments. Evolution of the delivery and format of these forums to best engage the audience is welcomed!

  CA Capability and Community Building

  Support the goal of the Business and Change Communications (BCC) team to build awareness, capabilities and confidence in internal communications, with a focus on change comms, throughout Mars​. Specifically, this Associate will have the opportunity to elevate and manage the existing community of global supply communicators, connecting them to initiatives and taking learnings from that forum back to the Internal Communications Council. Additionally, this Associate will work with the Mars Learning lead to further the Communicating Change at Mars learning solution, a best-in-class combination of online-course, regular forums for deep-dive and discussion, and real-time available assets, tools and templates and support future-looking capability building in this space.