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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Sales Systems Project Lead

Project ManagementPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeWarsaw, Poland

About the Job

Requirements

  • Approximately 2–3 years of operational experience coordinating digital, data, or systems implementation projects.
  • Practical skills in milestone planning, task estimation, facilitating status meetings and retrospectives, and organizing ambiguous processes into clear action plans.
  • Ability to independently query, join, filter, and validate relational database data using SQL.
  • Experience building actionable dashboards with Power BI and advanced Microsoft Excel, including Power Query, formulas, and pivot tables.
  • Experience collaborating with external IT vendors and software development teams, translating commercial needs into structured backlogs, tracking deliverables, and identifying anomalies.
  • Ability to optimize and automate recurring reporting routines and data flows, such as with workflow automation rules, scripts, or scheduled ETL queries.
  • Ability to build collaborative partnerships across Sales, project sponsors, and external partners without direct authority.
  • Negotiation skills and diplomatic assertiveness to handle scope conflicts, timeline changes, and trade-offs.
  • Fluent command of Polish and English at minimum B2/C1 level.

Responsibilities

  • Define project boundaries, business objectives, milestones, and success criteria for sales tools and data initiatives.
  • Facilitate status meetings and retrospectives, identify delivery bottlenecks, manage scope changes, and drive mitigation plans to keep rollouts on track.
  • Act as the day-to-day operational bridge between commercial stakeholders and external software and data vendors.
  • Translate business workflows into functional specifications and acceptance criteria, supervise external deliverables, and automate repetitive reporting and data collection processes.
  • Extract, clean, and integrate sales data from multiple relational sources using SQL.
  • Monitor data consistency, identify and resolve anomalies, and ensure accurate, transparent, and timely data for commercial decision-making.
  • Coordinate end-to-end implementation cycles, user validation, and rollouts, and support reliable daily tool availability and system adoption.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with workflow automation platforms, such as Power Automate, ETL tools, or data transformation scripting.
  • Exposure to retail execution, field sales operations, or retail execution metrics such as Perfect Store standards.
  • Familiarity with agile delivery techniques, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and user stories, or formal project management methodologies.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

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