Logistics Manager
About the job
- Understand the full distribution center operation process.
- Understand ERP, WMS, TMS, Webshot, and Agnostics systems as a functional expert.
- Oversee the end-to-end daily operational management of third-party logistics vendors for the Northern hub, including inbound receiving, warehouse management, co-packing, direct-to-consumer operations, inventory control, order picking, outbound delivery, and returns processing.
- Assess third-party logistics performance regularly, track service key performance indicators including on-time delivery, inventory accuracy, and operational compliance, and drive corrective action and improvement.
- Control inbound, outbound, and internal movement of materials and finished goods in the national warehouse, ensuring logistics activities comply with company rules and industry standards.
- Optimize collaboration mechanisms with third-party logistics providers, balancing service levels and cost efficiency to deliver stable, high-quality logistics output for the region.
- Communicate and coordinate across departments with third-party logistics partners to resolve operational exceptions, risks, and bottlenecks.
- Deploy corporate distribution quality standards and oversee quality implementation across the Northern hub.
- Conduct regular internal quality reviews, summarize operational quality risks, launch continuous improvement projects, and standardize the operations team’s daily quality management practices.
- Collaborate with the QMP team to update and optimize operational standard operating procedures in line with warehouse and delivery operations.
- Prepare annual LRQA audit materials, coordinate on-site audits, and track corrective actions to prevent major non-conformities in internal and external quality audits.
- Implement the company’s quality management system and quality-control requirements throughout logistics operations, ensuring traceability, compliance, and stability.
- Build cross-functional relationships with internal and external members and use PDCA processes to achieve targets.
- Lead or participate in supply chain optimization projects, tracking progress, milestone delivery, and implementation of results.
- Plan and prepare for new distribution center layouts and new third-party logistics warehouse launches, including operational system setup; identify requirements in daily operations and coordinate resources and teams for implementation.
- Support the logistics management team through team capability building, operational process standardization, system training, and talent development.
- Drive digital transformation and operational optimization of warehouse and transportation operations, including logistics system upgrades, inventory replenishment optimization, picking-mode iteration, and distribution efficiency improvements.
- Identify operational pain points and inefficiencies, propose feasible solutions, and promote standardized, lean, and digital development of Northern regional logistics operations.
- Set goals and plans, monitor implementation, and report regularly on resources, costs, investments, timing, schedules, and analysis.
- Coordinate with the Tianjin plant to align operational standards and enable efficient finished-goods distribution and stable transportation.
- Coordinate shipment schedules and handover procedures with the Tianjin plant, reduce delivery delays, optimize logistics processes, and resolve logistics issues promptly.
- Work with the planning team to optimize inventory structure and utilization.
- Coordinate with relevant headquarters functions to align logistics plans, comply with global quality and environmental, health, and safety standards, mitigate operational risks, and improve end-to-end supply chain performance.
- As the Northern hub’s key-user representative, submit tickets to central services when system operations fail and track resolution through completion.
- Support new supply chain initiatives by assessing system feasibility.
About the company
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 Impact Fund granted over $13 million in 2026 to resilience and animal wellbeing.
- Mars Snacking added 600 Chicago jobs and committed $100 million to headquarters expansion.
- Mars completed CA$180 million Ontario upgrades in 2026, lifting pet nutrition and snack capacity.
What critics are saying
- Nature's Bakery closes Hazelwood by September 2027, signaling integration waste and demand misreads.
- Mars Wrigley cut 307 Newark jobs and relocated headquarters, exposing ongoing restructuring pressure.
- A failed Kellanova integration would erase expected scale benefits and hand rivals PepsiCo share.
What makes Mars unique
- Mars runs pet care, snacking, and food with 2026 Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise rollout.
- Mars controls nine billion-dollar snacking brands after Kellanova approval on 2026-09-09.
- Mars owns VCA, Banfield, Royal Canin, and global pet distribution across 145 markets.
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10%Mars Incorporated has awarded more than $13 million in grants through its Mars Impact Fund to six organisations across Côte d'Ivoire, India, the United States and Thailand. The multi-year partnerships with Elucid, Tanager, Pratham Education Foundation, People's Action for National Integration, National 4-H Council and Worldwide Veterinary Service focus on three priorities: strengthening resilience in Mars sourcing communities, developing future scientists and improving companion animal wellbeing. Key investments include $2.07 million to Elucid for healthcare access for cocoa-farming households in Côte d'Ivoire, $5.6 million for mint-farming communities in India and $3 million to National 4-H Council to engage 200,000 young people in food and agriculture careers. The fund also committed $3 million to Worldwide Veterinary Service for rabies elimination efforts in Thailand.
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.
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.
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.
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.