Brand Marketing Intern

Meet our family: Mars Inc.

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 $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands around 180 countries: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, and FREEDENT®.

A job at Mars is never just a job. It’s an adventure. A journey. Anything but blindly following what other people tell you to do. With us, the decisions you make matter. It means you can rewrite the rules and build new solutions. You can develop your ideas and create new successes. In fact, in a culture that’s all about freedom, personal responsibility and entrepreneurship – and with brands active in 180 countries and sales of $33 billion – you can make it mean more no matter where you join us. So, the question is, what will your story be?

Are you an enthusiastic student, who likes to gain experiences in brand management and are you a hard worker, analytical and enterprising? Then we are looking for you! For the Mars brand management team chocolate or petcare, we have a unique opportunity for an internship. We are looking for two students for a period of 5 to 7 months, in which you have the possibility to perform your thesis or similar research. We provide you the opportunity to develop your talents and to increase your knowledge in the field of brand management.

There are 3 spots available in different segments. So apply now to make sure one of them is yours!

What do we expect from you?

• Support the Dutch Mars brand management team in Confectionary or Petcare
• Work closely with the Sales and Logistics team to make our brands a success
• Support the development of displays for retail and out-of-home channels
• Support the development of advertisements for our customers
• Responsible for logistics and administrative tasks; regarding displays, PO’s etc.
• Support the processing of products that are new to the Dutch market
• Many opportunities for your own initiative to develop yourself

What we offer:

• Unique opportunity to work at a large corporate firm with world famous brands
• Develop your talents and increase your knowledge in the field of brand marketing
• Opportunity to perform your thesis or similar research
• Competitive internship compensation and travel expenses
• A dynamic, ambitious and fun work environment

What we are looking for:

• Enthusiastic, enterprising and a hard-working student who is eager to learn
• With strong communicative, analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
• Preferably MSc student
• 5-7 months availability, 4 days working vs. 1 day own research (we work in a hybrid form)
• Available from June/July/August 2022
• Fluent in the Dutch language, proficient in the English language