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We’re a unified force of 150,000+ Associates, taking action every day toward the world we want tomorrow. Our Five Principles have kept us true to ourselves and to our commitment to treat others in ways that are consistent with those values. Having stood the test of time, these principles will continue, keeping us free to move quickly and plan for the future.
Where you start your career at Mars, is just the beginning. Joining our Graduate program, which is known as The Mars Leadership Experience (MLE), will kick off 3 rewarding years packed with great experiences, opportunities and learning. Our program is designed to build both your functional/technical skills, as well as providing you with stretching leadership opportunities to prepare you for an exciting career.
To us, every graduate is a potential leader. That’s why the moment the program starts you’ll be handed huge responsibilities. You’re also provided with the freedom to explore the new, and are fully supported while you gain knowledge and experience. As a Graduate, you’ll not only play an integral role in our continued success but you’ll also be working with the industry’s top talent who are all keen to support you in your leadership journey as your line managers, mentors, buddies and new friends.
Welcome to the Mars Leadership Experience in Multisales Europe and Southern Africa!
The MLE is a perfect grounding for a career in business leadership. You’ll manage projects, take on roles with local and international exposure, lead teams, make decisions with real consequences and much more. The challenges will come thick and fast and it will stretch you like never before.
What will I be doing?
The MLE is more than just a graduate program. It’s high-powered, right from the start and focuses on developing well-rounded leaders with unparalleled business experience, tomorrow’s leaders of Mars, Inc.. It’s a steep learning curve with enormous business exposure.
Over the course of this three 12-month placements you’ll get a complete overview of our business, together with the freedom and responsibility to have a very real and very visible impact on it. The challenges will come thick and fast. And they will keep on coming. You’ll experience different markets, different functions, different teams, countries and products. We’ll work with you to clarify and support your career thinking and tailor your path through the program to best fit with your ambitions and our business needs. The program runs across a number of our Multisales organization countries. Every area of our business will be open to you. So you could be a Brand Manager in Marketing, an Account Manager in Sales or a Supply Chain project Manager in Logistics.
As one of our future leaders, you’ll be looking for ways to help us work better, faster and smarter. To stay one step ahead of the competition and to keep our products front of mind for our customers. You’ll learn to inspire confidence in others, to act in ways that achieve the best results for everyone, and as you do, you’ll take on more and more responsibilities and larger and larger projects. At the end of the program you’ll have learnt everything you need to fill and succeed in one of the 250 leading roles in our business.
We’ll expect you to grab everything that’s within your reach and use it to pursue mutual long – term goals. Because life here is never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It’s about making what you do mean more, for your career and the people and communities around you.
