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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Product Owner - Intelligent Perfect Store

Technical Product ManagementPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeChicago, IL, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in CPG Commercial Excellence, Retail Execution, Sales Operations, or Digital Transformation.
  • Hands-on experience with Perfect Store programs across multiple markets.
  • Experience leading global platforms or enterprise solutions.
  • Deep understanding of Perfect Store methodologies.
  • A platform and product mindset.
  • Strong data and KPI fluency.
  • Executive communication and change leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own the global Perfect Store platform vision and operating model.
  • Translate Perfect Store principles, including availability, assortment, pricing, shelving, promotions, and visibility, into standardized platform capabilities.
  • Define global and local execution rules to ensure scalability with market relevance.
  • Lead the design and evolution of the Perfect Store platform, including store visit workflows and tasking, audits and compliance using image recognition, and KPI scoring, weighting, and compliance logic.
  • Ensure the platform supports mobile-first, field-ready execution using image recognition.
  • Ensure execution data quality is accurate, timely, and actionable for store-level representative actions, manager-level coaching, and executive-level performance visibility.
  • Lead global rollouts across regions, banners, and routes-to-market.
  • Partner with regional sales, trade marketing, and distributors to drive field adoption.
  • Embed the platform into daily execution rhythms rather than treating it as a reporting tool.
  • Act as the central integrator across Sales Operations and Commercial Excellence, IT, Digital, Data teams, and external platform and integration partners.
  • Own prioritization, roadmap alignment, and dependency management.
  • Incorporate feedback from field teams and leadership into platform enhancements.
  • Evaluate and integrate new capabilities such as artificial intelligence, image recognition, and automation.
  • Benchmark against industry best practices and competitor approaches.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of retail execution systems and mobile field tools.
  • Knowledge of distributor and route-to-market models.
  • Knowledge of trade promotion and in-store activation.
  • Knowledge of image recognition technologies.
  • Knowledge of analytics, dashboards, and performance management.

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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