Product Availability Coordinator

About Mars, Incorporated
Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $45 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS®, M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, ROYAL CANIN®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL® and MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, 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 its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

Job Purpose

This position, reporting into the Product Availability Head for the respective cluster, is responsible for Mars Wrigley product availability. For a subset of the portfolio, they will look to ensure
optimal finished good inventory levels to maximize customer service level towards our target, whilst minimizing inventory value and eliminating write offs / NQC.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Drive product availability to ensure a sustained service level of 98.5%;

• Ensure actions are driven across the supply chain to improve product availability, e.g. amendments to production planning, faster transit times, amendments to future forecast;

• Apply a continuous improvement mindset ensuring that deletions are appropriately assessed and understood and that actions are implemented to prevent recurrence

• Drive efficient stock management;

• Proactively highlight overstock issues, identifying root causes and appropriate CI actions to ensure prevention of recurrence;

• Management of stock age profile of FG preventing best before / NQC issues.

What are we looking for?

• Minimum a Bachelor's degree;

• At least 3 years of experience in supply chain;

• Excellent command of spoken and written English;

• Experience using SAP / Atlas is preferable, as well as experience of using office productivity software (such as Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint etc.);

• Ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively at all levels, both internally and externally.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 140,000 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.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.