DATA & ANALYTICS AT MARS PETCARE

The Petcare Segment consists of five Divisions: Pet Nutrition, Royal Canin, Mars Veterinary Health N. America, Mars Veterinary Health International & Diagnostics, Kinship.  Under this new organization of Petcare Product and Service brands, we launched our Strategy in 2018 with an objective to “Create a Better World for Pets by extending global leadership in Nutrition, Health and Services powered by Data”.    

With the breadth and scale of our Petcare businesses we have unique and unrivalled data assets.  The potential to create benefits for Pets and sustainable competitive advantage is huge and we need to seize this opportunity now.

Our data assets consist of Veterinary data including appointment and invoice details as well as the medical histories and diagnostic details this provides.  We have breed and disease marker data from our DNA diagnostics business (Wisdom Health), Location and Activity Tracking data from our Whistle business.  From our nutrition businesses we have sales data, some consumer data as well as valuable information about retailers, Veterinarians, Breeders and Shelters.  We also have third party data providing us with product purchasing insights and the potential to develop deeper and broader views into Petcare shopping through collaboration and D2C engagement.

We began our work to leverage these more strategically to power our ecosystem and there is a significant team across both segment and divisions driving these efforts.

Role Purpose:

As part of the Data & Analytics team, the Sr. Analytics Product Manager will be responsible to deliver powered by data strategy ambitions for Pet Nutrition division. This will be done by partnering with business and technology teams to bring to life data driven use cases. They will act as the conduit between the agile delivery teams and the business to ensure resources are correctly utilized and they are delivering value. This individual will be building strong relationship with business stakeholders through regular interactions and updates on progress, including leading “show and tell” sessions, and managing the User Acceptance Test process.

What are we looking for? 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Consumer/Shopper Insights or related field. Advanced degree (MBA, MA, or PhD) preferred.
• Overall, 10 years of experience; Minimum 5 years of experience in analytics
• Minimum 2 years of analytics experience in the Consumer Products Good Industry
• Minimum 3 years of product ownership and management experience
• A Senior Product Manager experienced in data product ownership and leadership, problem identification and definition, data product development and delivery to end users
• Deep and rich experience in managing data-driven insight projects in complex organizations
• Prior experience working in one or more of these domain areas – Sales, Marketing, ECommerce, Revenue Growth Management, Supply Chain, R&D, Commercial, Consumer/Shopper Insights
• A user and data driven approach to product management, with experience in valuation of use cases
• A deep understanding of technology solutions and data science, and familiarity with a broad base of analytical tools
• Strong passion for data & analytics and bringing structure and collaborating with a range of business and technical stakeholders to rapidly deliver real value

What will be your key responsibilities? 

• Manage an analytics product area for the data platform, with the ambition to grow into other product areas
• Work with business stakeholders to articulate the current state challenges and / or opportunities to be able to demonstrate the value of the proposed analytics product. This includes working in partnership with the business to develop user research - User Personas, User Journeys - Leading and Lagging Metrics, and calculating the Cost of Delay (where applicable)
• Make product decisions rooted in business value and impact, considering user needs, technical needs and costs, and business viability
• Full ownership of roadmap, vision, and strategy within your product area/s aligned with the broader vision and strategy of the Petcare Data Platform and Mars Petcare
• Input and management of the product demand level backlog. Ongoing review and updates on the value of the backlog items vs new demand to ensure it remains relevant to changing business needs and prioritize the highest value use cases
• Guiding development by articulating the business challenge and required functionality to the engineering team
• Ideate and build early perspectives on actionable insights to the problem and work with the product team to prove/ disprove the hypothesis, continuously iterating as new information and/or insights come to light
• To partner with other product managers, data scientists, business analysts, engineers, users, scrum masters, and stakeholders to deliver data products that are adopted and tied to business outcomes
• Attend agile ceremonies with the product team, including daily stand-ups, show and tells, retrospectives
• With the delivery manager, develop the User Acceptance Test (UAT) scenarios to support user testing of the product functionality
• Communicate the product objectives and values to support change activities, including communications, release approach and update key stakeholders on release plans

What can you expect from Mars? 

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded 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.  

About Mars:
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®, 5â„¢, 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 Hospitalsâ„¢, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCAâ„¢ and Pet Partnersâ„¢. 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 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

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