Full-Time

Petcare People Analytics & Talent Senior Analyst

Updated on 8/23/2026

Deadline 8/26/26
Mars

Mars

10,001+ employees

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

No salary listed

London, UK

Hybrid

Hybrid work in London.

Bachelor's

Category
People & HR (1)
Required Skills
Power BI
Data Visualization
Workday HRIS
Version Control
Data Modeling
Data Governance
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides

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Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in human resources, business, analytics, or a related discipline.
  • Additional training or certification in human resources, data analytics, or data visualization is preferred.
  • Strong data and analytical skills, including the ability to work confidently with people, talent, workforce, and organizational data.
  • Experience in human resources analytics, people analytics, workforce reporting, organizational effectiveness, or a related data and analytics role.
  • Experience maintaining recurring reporting cycles, including data refreshes, quality checks, version control, and stakeholder sign-off.
  • Experience documenting metric definitions, data sources, assumptions, and reporting processes.
  • Experience improving reporting efficiency through standardization, automation, dashboards, or self-service tools.
  • Ability to translate data into clear insights, implications, and recommendations.
  • Ability to work with technical, MGS, or enterprise data and reporting teams to translate business needs into technical requirements.
  • Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI skills.
  • Experience with Workday reporting, human resources data extracts, or similar human resources information system reporting tools.
  • Working knowledge of data cleansing, data modeling, data quality checks, and metric definition management.
  • Good understanding of human resources data, organizational structures, headcount, talent, and workforce metrics.
  • High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy, quality, and governance.
  • Strong understanding of human resources data privacy, confidentiality, and appropriate handling of sensitive people data.
  • Ability to manage recurring reporting cycles and ad hoc requests in parallel.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to clarify needs and tailor outputs to different audiences.
  • Comfort working across teams, functions, and geographies in a matrix environment.
Responsibilities
  • Maintain and deliver recurring people analytics outputs for Petcare leadership forums, including Petcare MDR, Global Functions MDR, MLT, OOP, and other key business cycles.
  • Support cross-Petcare reporting by consolidating, standardizing, and quality-checking data across segments, functions, and divisions where required.
  • Provide timely, leadership-ready reports, dashboards, and slide materials for Human Capital Reporting, talent reviews, and priority P&O requests.
  • Maintain reporting accuracy, consistency, and alignment with agreed definitions, quality standards, and timelines.
  • Identify what has changed, why it matters, and where leadership attention may be needed.
  • Translate analysis into clear headlines, commentary, and implications for different audiences.
  • Support the development of insight narratives connecting people metrics to business priorities.
  • Help leaders understand the implications of workforce, talent, culture, and organizational trends.
  • Maintain recurring reporting and analytics for talent, leadership, and culture priorities, including senior leader talent scorecards, mobility analysis, MAS insights, and Next Gen/Trailblazers reporting.
  • Ensure critical talent and leadership reporting is accurate, repeatable, well documented, and aligned with agreed definitions and stakeholder requirements.
  • Identify trends, risks, and opportunities across talent pipelines, associate movement, leadership populations, and culture indicators.
  • Support ad hoc talent and culture requests with robust analysis and clear interpretation.
  • Partner with stakeholders to ensure analytics are fit for purpose and connected to the decisions they support.
  • Support the Petcare Human Capital Report and related analysis on headcount, full-time-equivalent staffing, turnover, workforce shape, spans and layers, seniority, organizational complexity, and productivity indicators.
  • Work with Division Leads and P&O stakeholders to shape report content, improve commentary, and strengthen the link between data, insights, and action.
  • Deliver periodic and ad hoc headcount, workforce, and organization reporting for Global Functions and other leadership teams.
  • Support organizational effectiveness analysis with clear data, thoughtful interpretation, and practical implications.
  • Help build a consistent Petcare view of workforce, talent, and organizational health across segments and divisions.
  • Run recurring data quality checks ahead of major reporting cycles, identifying, escalating, and resolving issues early.
  • Maintain documentation of metric definitions, assumptions, source systems, refresh cycles, and known caveats.
  • Create and maintain standard quality-control checklists for recurring reporting outputs.
  • Identify inconsistencies, data gaps, and definition issues, working with MGS, divisions, enterprise teams, and data owners to improve reliability.
  • Contribute to stronger governance, consistency, and trust across Petcare people analytics outputs.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual reporting effort through standardized templates, automated refreshes, reusable data models, and improved reporting processes.
  • Develop or enhance dashboards and reporting solutions that reduce manual effort and improve self-service access to trusted people data.
  • Build reusable analytical assets, templates, data models, commentary structures, and quality checklists.
  • Partner with MGS, segment, division, and enterprise technology, data, and reporting teams to translate Petcare business needs into scalable data and dashboard requirements.
  • Support adoption of dashboards and self-service tools by improving usability, documentation, and stakeholder understanding.
  • Work collaboratively with Petcare, MGS, Centers of Excellence, Division Leads, and P&O stakeholders to improve the speed, quality, and usefulness of people analytics.
  • Clarify business questions before starting analysis to ensure outputs are relevant and actionable.
  • Manage ad hoc analytical requests by balancing urgency, strategic value, and effort.
  • Contribute to a stronger Petcare people analytics operating rhythm and insight capability.
Desired Qualifications
  • Exposure to data lakes, extract-load-transform processes, or enterprise reporting environments.

Mars, Incorporated makes and sells a wide range of food, confectionery, and petcare products worldwide, with brands like M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Dove, Orbit, Skittles, Pedigree, and Royal Canin, and it also operates pet health services through networks such as AniCura, Banfield, BluePearl, and VCA. Its products come from integrated manufacturing and distribution systems, delivering everyday treats and meals as well as veterinary care through a global network of partners. Mars differentiates itself through its diversified portfolio, long family ownership, and the Mars Five Principles—Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom—that guide decisions and actions. The company aims to help communities prosper and improve social and environmental outcomes while growing its business and scale.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$27B

Headquarters

McLean, Virginia

Founded

1911

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What believers are saying

  • Mars Snacking is adding 600 Chicago jobs and investing $100 million through 2027.
  • Christina Ruggiero’s July 2026 appointment accelerates North American pet nutrition innovation.
  • Google Cloud rollout through 2026 should compress research, sales, and factory-diagnostics cycles.

What critics are saying

  • Nature’s Bakery’s Hazelwood plant closes in September 2027, eliminating 345 jobs.
  • Mars Wrigley cuts 307 Newark roles and exits New Jersey by mid-October.
  • A botched Kellanova integration by 2027 destroys $36 billion of acquired brand value.

What makes Mars unique

  • Mars’s family ownership enables decade-long bets, not quarterly earnings theater.
  • Kellanova added Pringles, Cheez-It, and Pop-Tarts, deepening Mars Snacking’s shelf power.
  • Gemini Enterprise gives Mars a companywide AI operating system across 170,000 associates.

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

21%

1 year growth

21%

2 year growth

21%
PR Newswire
Jul 21st, 2026
Mars appoints Christina Ruggiero as North America president for pet nutrition division

Mars has appointed Christina Ruggiero as Regional President of its Pet Nutrition Division for North America, effective 1 July. She will oversee brands including Pedigree, Iams, Sheba, Cesar, Greenies, Temptations and Nutro across the United States and Canada. Ruggiero joins from Coca-Cola, where she served as President of the Global Nutrition Category, leading a $9 billion portfolio that included Minute Maid, Simply and Fairlife. She previously spent nearly four years in India as CEO of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, where she doubled the company's net worth. In her new role, Ruggiero will focus on science-backed innovation, omnichannel growth and digital acceleration. Mars operates a $65 billion business with approximately 170,000 associates worldwide.

Fox Business
Jul 20th, 2026
Mars Wrigley to lay off 307 workers, relocate US headquarters from New Jersey to Chicago

Mars Wrigley will lay off 307 workers and relocate its US headquarters from Newark, New Jersey, to Chicago by mid-October. The candymaker, which produces M&M's, Snickers, Twix and Skittles, filed a WARN notice with New Jersey signalling the job cuts will end the company's presence in Newark. The move follows a $100 million investment to expand Mars Wrigley's Chicago facilities, where its global headquarters is now based. The company will continue operating its manufacturing facility in Hackettstown, New Jersey. The New Jersey Business & Industry Association warned the departure signals the state needs to improve its business climate. New Jersey has lost over 9,700 jobs through WARN notices this year, with Samsung and ExxonMobil also announcing recent departures.

Yahoo Finance
Jul 8th, 2026
Mars to close Nature's Bakery plant in Missouri, 345 jobs at risk

Mars-owned snacks brand Nature's Bakery is permanently closing its manufacturing plant in Hazelwood, Missouri. Production will shift to other facilities, with the site expected to remain operational until a full shutdown in September 2027. According to a local government filing, 130 employees will leave on 11 September, followed by 215 more in February 2027. All affected staff have been notified and can seek alternative positions within Nature's Bakery or Mars. In January 2024, Mars announced a $237m investment in a new Nature's Bakery factory in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mars acquired Nature's Bakery in 2020 through its Kind snacking business and recently completed a $35.9bn acquisition of Kellanova in December.

International Confectionery
Jul 2nd, 2026
Mars awards $1.7M to support young scientists at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Mars, Incorporated is renewing its partnership with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings through a three-year, €1.5 million grant from the Mars Impact Fund. The funding will support fellowships for 30 young scientists annually to attend the meetings, which bring together Nobel Laureates and emerging researchers. Mars has partnered with the Meetings since 2007, but this marks the first collaboration through its Impact Fund, launched in early 2026. The grant aims to strengthen access for scientists who otherwise couldn't participate and support programming that fosters dialogue and learning. The partnership was celebrated at the 75th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany, where Mars hosted events focused on interdisciplinary science. Michelle Grogg, Executive Director of the Mars Impact Fund, said the collaboration reflects the Fund's commitment to diversifying the global scientific pipeline.

PR Newswire
Jun 9th, 2026
Mars appoints Kemal Cetin as chief digital officer for $36B snacking business

Mars, Incorporated has appointed Kemal Cetin as Global Chief Digital & Information Officer for its $36 billion Snacking business, effective 3 August 2026. Cetin will report to Andrew Clarke, Global President of Mars Snacking, and lead the company's digital, data and technology strategy. Cetin joins from FrieslandCampina, where he served as Global Business and Digital Solutions Officer. He brings nearly 30 years of experience from global consumer goods companies including Diageo, Coca Cola Enterprises and Whirlpool. Mars Snacking houses brands including Snickers, M&M's, Pringles, Cheez-It and Pop-Tarts. Cetin will focus on advancing digital capabilities and integration following Mars's acquisition of Kellanova brands, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business growth through digital technologies and AI.