Customer Activation Specialist
Mars
Customer Activation Specialist
Mars
Global confectionery, food, and petcare company
Job Description:
Location: Hungary
Duration: 12 months contract
Job Description:
• As Customer Activation Specialist, this role is about being responsible for Activation strategy deployment and tailoring of activation plans together with cluster One Demand team and local Customers on Hungarian market
• The person on this role is aimed to drive cluster EBAs and local TMAs activations, taking specifics of a local market for more customer centricity and actionability in activity development
What are we looking for?
• 2+ years relevant experience in Trade/Customer/Shopper Marketing or Sales in FMCG or at Key Retailers' side
• English – Upper intermediate, Hungarian – Native/fluent
• Experienced in MS Office programs (SAP/Ariba - nice to have)
Skills & Competencies:
• Business Acumen (Understanding of Cluster specifics, FMCG market and Customers environment)
• Project leadership and Action Planning
• Efficient team player
• Work processes optimization
• Drives for result & actionability
• Balancing internal & external stakeholders
• Collaborates effectively
What will be your key responsibilities?
• Close cooperation with local Demand and Sales teams to ensure seamless execution across all key processes
• Managing the execution quality of national activities (EBAs) at customer level
• Full ownership of localized Customer Activations (TMAs) and customer-tailored selling stories
•Managing customer-specific temporary displays and POSM production, leveraging both cluster and local toolkits.
• Collecting and translating local customer needs into actionable requirements, including alignment with One Demand during annual planning
• Serving as the owner of Activity Booster Meetings as a critical alignment input for the S&OP+ process, as well as representative of CA function into other S&OP+ cycle forums (incl. feeders)
• Managing the local Consumer Promo budget
• Representing the CE CA team in assigned cross-market projects and driving cluster-level initiatives from a local perspective, ensuring consistency, collaboration, and high execution standards across markets
What can you expect from Mars?
• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Please, apply with English CV only
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.
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