Responsibilities

• Support Corporate and Brand initiatives that increase awareness and relevance of Mars’ portfolio of Pet Nutrition North America brands, and Purpose, including but not limited to: Corporate Communications, Brand PR, Mars Volunteer Program (MVP), Community Engagement, Strategic Partnerships, Sports Collaborations, and Communications and Programming.
• Maintain a strong understanding of current and new media trends which can help influence reach or target audience, with a growth and digital-first approach.
• Support planning and execution of Brand PR, corporate communications, and BETTER CITIES FOR PETS initiatives in collaboration with the External Affairs and Marketing teams.
• Partner with Director of Brand Communications and agencies to execute communications strategies and activations for select brands in the Mars PNNA portfolio.
• Develop, write, edit, and distribute communications materials including press releases, internal story alerts, corporate statements, corporate materials, presentations and speeches.
• Execute charitable contribution requests, ticket and sponsorship deliverable management and allocation, and samples distribution, collaborating with internal and external partners.
• Support team budget management, including opening Purchase Orders and maintaining budget tracker.
• Monitor company and competitor news to identify emerging issues and storylines and deliver regular monitoring updates to Corporate Affairs team.
• Support proactive and reactive media relations, and event opportunities.
• Lead workstream to develop cross-team processes to improve efficiency of EA team and ability for team to partner effectively across Pet Nutrition North America.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism or associated profession is required, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• 1-3 years relevant professional experience in brand, corporate or internal communications or project management with proven success developing and managing communications programs.
• Must have strong oral and written communication, listening, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with internal and external stakeholders in a large organization
• Digitally savvy.
• Agency experience a plus
• Ability to travel