Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates

A leading global company in the UK is seeking a Packaging Development Engineer to lead innovation projects in packaging technology. You will collaborate with diverse teams to translate concepts into tangible solutions, manage scale-up risks, and drive impactful engineering development. The role offers a competitive salary of £42,000 - £50,000 plus an annual bonus, and it is a 12-month fixed-term contract with hybrid working options.

Job Description Packaging Development Engineer Location: Slough, UK, hybrid type (50% min on-site) Salary: £42,000 - 50,000, annual bonus, benefits Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract As Packaging Development Engineer at Mars, you will support conceptual design and development activities, determine the sequence of development operations, and determine equipment and proof of principle requirements. Significant collaboration is expected with all engineers, designers, technicians, and managers within the breakthrough technology team and key stakeholders. What are we looking for? Ideally, Systems Engineering or Engineering/Technology or a related Engineering degree. Consistently meets or exceeds the standards and expectations of internal and external customers and consumers. Manage scale up risk and the introduction of technology into the supply chain. Extensive experience in engineering technology development. Demonstrated process and packaging science, packaging engineering, machine design development, and design through virtual prototyping methods. Can work independently and be a team player. What will be your key responsibilities? Direct leadership of key engineering development projects. Support the translation of technology from ideas into virtual and working proof of principle models. Support scale up and transition of knowledge from the Global Packaging Machine Design team to third party machine builders for full scale working machines. Innovation engineering development of new science and technology. Form effective knowledge/technology teams (internal and external) to overcome hurdles to advance ideas and concepts. What can you expect from Mars? Work with 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. Strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus. Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site: Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long term health conditions, or who are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process. To request reasonable adjustments, complete our Reasonable Adjustment Request Form here.

Job Description: The Engineer Packaging Ice Cream is a pivotal role within the European R&D Ice Cream organization, dedicated to creating innovative, high-quality packaging solutions that drive the growth of the Ice Cream portfolio across different formats. This role blends technical expertise, creative problem solving, and developing packaging solutions. In addition, it leads regional value leadership, supply security, and sustainability initiatives, ensuring our packaging meets both business objectives and consumer expectations. This position requires technical packaging skills to optimize current packaging (flexibles, paper, carton) and develop new solutions. What are we looking for? Ideally, Systems Engineering or Engineering/Technology or a related Engineering degree Consistently meets or exceeds the standards and expectations of internal and external customers and consumers Manage scale up risk and the introduction of technology into the supply chain Extensive experience in engineering technology development Demonstrated process and packaging science, packaging engineering, machine design development, and design through virtual prototyping methods We want someone who can work independently and be a team player What will be your key responsibilities? Lead the design, development, and commercialization of packaging innovations, ensuring alignment with brand strategies and market needs. Translate consumer and market insights into practical, scalable packaging solutions. Ensures that the package development process is meeting agreed timelines and follows Design for Vertical Start up (DfVS). Lead packaging sustainability agenda for Ice Cream cell in line with Mars Wrigley roadmap, connect with the regional sustainability team to ensure PPWR compliance of the Ice Cream portfolio. Ensure technical packaging designs meet brand quality standards (KQAs). Partner with R&D Factory Innovation and external manufacturing peers to ensure packages developed can be scaled effectively within existing internal manufacturing technology capabilities and co manufacturers. Works within cross functional teams to ensure that desirability, feasibility, viability and sustainability are evaluated for all projects as part of the development process. Guarantee accuracy of packaging specifications to ensure quality, cost efficiency, and manufacturability. Apply robust quality performance measures and corrective actions to continuously improve packaging standards. Collaborate with regional and cross functional teams to deliver technical elements of innovation and renovation projects. What can you expect from Mars? Work with 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. A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus. Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site: Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long term health conditions, or who are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process. To request reasonable adjustments, complete our Reasonable Adjustment Request Form here.

Job Description: The role of Senior Finance Business Partner for Food & Nutrition UK & Ireland (UK&I) will partner the UK&I General Manager (GM) to lead our UK&I Market Unit. This is the largest of our four European Market Unit and plays a leading role in our Growth and Value Creation ambition. As the Senior Finance Business Partner this role will provide leadership and decision support to the Market Unit GM and their team in pursuit of delivering against our business and financial objectives. This will include a focus on Net Sales (NSV) delivery, driving value creation by ensuring a strong focus on Gross Margin (MAC) and the key levers of value creation - price, promotion and product mix. What will be your key responsibilities? Act as Finance Business Partner for the key accounts - supporting the definition of customer strategy to achieve targets set within the Annual and Long-Term business plan s. Support in the preparation of annual client negotiations, price increases, and customer business plans with strong partnerships with Sales, Strategic Revenue Management (SRM), Demand planning and the GM. Partnership with SRM to evaluate the financial impacts of pricing plans and changes in trade terms/conditions to ensure delivery against Gross Margin and Value Creation ambition. Provide critical support to the periodic Market forecasting processes (S&OP) through completion of updates during the periodic Sales Reviews (DMR) and actively representing the UK&I Market during the periodic Regional Consolidated Financial Review (RIR) targets. In Partnership with the SRM team, ensure that the trade budgets are managed accurately in the Trade Budget Systems; and that regular reviews are completed to determine the effectiveness of this and opportunities to improve Return on Investment (ROI). \p>As required, initiate, lead, and manage projects within the UK&I Market Unit which will improve current finance processes and deliver against value creation strategy. What are we looking for? University Degree or Masters Degree with an Accounting or Finance background or equivalent. Financial Professional certification (as appropriate within local Market). Experience in management reporting & analysis. Knowledge and experience of data visualisation. What can you expect from Mars? Work with 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. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Job Description: As part on its sustainability journey, Royal Canin is working relentlessly towards improving our impact on pets, planet and people, by making our activities more sustainable and socially responsible. Our key priority in this journey is to reduce its carbon emissions and contribute to Mars Incorporated commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050. This role ensures the link between the delivery of our sustainability objectives, with a strong focus on climate, and our visibility of performance results, strengthening business decision-making, ensuring that Sustainability data and information actionable for business leaders, and enabling lower-footprint innovation through much improved systems and tools. Role responsibilities include working with relevant Royal Canin's functional teams and Petcare/Mars Central experts as climate data lead, to pilot and then deploy successful accounting programs, systems and tools. The role requires technical expertise in Life Cycle Assessment as well as strong project oversight, governance skills and stakeholders management skills. What are we looking for? Degree in agronomy, finance or a sustainability related topic 5-8 years experience in a quantitative data analysis field or discipline, with a focus on environmental sustainability, climate, and/or sustainable sourcing Demonstrated experience evaluating and/or authoring LCAs, with a focus on agricultural or industrial products Working understanding of LCA/climate accounting standards and practices Experience across data collection and reporting systems including audit requirements and processes Ability to facilitate data driven discussions to influence business strategy and growth Demonstrated creativity in problem solving and the ability to take an idea through to implementation Ability to translate key aspects of Life Cycle Assessment to various non sustainability audiences, with patience and creativity Ability to and experience with engagement of internal expert Sustainability groups Ability to work flexibly with global teams across different time zones What will be your Key responsibilities? In strong collaboration with Petcare and Mars Incorporated teams: 1) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) lead for Royal Canin Responsible for the development of supplier and project specific impact factors, especially for raw materials, together with other LCA leads within Mars Inc. Responsible for translating future or existing LCA standard into the business accounting rules, and contribute to set accounting rules for internal Mars Inc. use when standards do not exist yet; Identifying data gaps or issues, escalation for support when needed, working together with Petcare and Mars experts to address them; Support teams in assessing the potential reduction during the development of carbon reduction initiatives; Contribute to the development and deployment of methodological changes within Mars Inc. 2) Reporting and glidepath, supported by analytics and tools Responsible for tracking Royal Canin's carbon performance for different geographical scale, at corporate and products level; manage the validation and/or external assurance of data; generate performance reports to enable robust understanding of results internally and externally; Serves as carbon and climate analytics subject-matter expert in Royal Canin, providing analytics support to functional and brand teams to enable the delivery of climate goals, based on a deep understanding of carbon accounting, carbon intensity, allocation of benefits, and other critical climate accounting considerations. Serves as climate subject-matter expert for the digital transformation aiming at providing tools essential to Royal Canin and Petcare's ability to deliver its sustainability goals over time, helping inform and shape strategic choices and business decisions. Responsibility for tracking Royal Canin's sustainability performance on a quarterly basis. 3) Lead the carbon neutrality certification Responsible for the assessment of the performance of the products in the scope of the certification, working in close collaboration with other functional teams; Further develop and update the methodological report on an annual basis; Further develop and update the certification report on an annual basis, incl. connecting with the relevant experts to get an update of the climate strategy; Manage the LCA verification and certification process. Responsible for guaranteeing the compliance of the certification with existing laws. 4) Lead Farm projects accounting for Royal Canin Responsible for the data collection of farm projects set up at Royal Canin scope. Ensuring that Mars, Inc. accounting methodology is consistent, understood and respected. Responsible to deliver accurate & up to date data for CAP & Annual climate reporting. 5) Increasing Access & Capability Responsible for ensuring that relevant teams across functions have access to key Sustainability data and have the right capability and awareness in order to access it, utilize it to make business decisions, and to build into their existing teams stronger capabilities over time.