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We’re Much More Than Just Chocolate

In fact, eleven of our brands across different categories are now worth more than $1 billion each. We are the world’s leader in pet care and confectionery. Our reach extends into more than 180 countries, and we work from offices and factories in 370 locations around the world.

Put simply, the size and scope of our business is vast, so we have opportunities to suit people from all sorts of backgrounds. This breadth and scale can open up lots of different career paths for you. You might join us in one role, location or function, and go on to explore many of them, right across the business. It’s a bit like having lots of different careers, all in one place. A place with the same shared values, wherever you happen to be. That’s why your time here can mean more than you ever imagined.

A Unique Business With a Unique Story

All companies are different. But we like to think we’re a little different to most. You see, as one of the world’s leading privately-owned businesses, we enjoy unusual levels of freedom when it comes to how we operate. It allows us to do business in a freethinking kind of way, and it means our culture is open and collaborative. We make it easy for good people to make great products. But we also do something more. What you get here is high levels of responsibility, a variety of possibilities and the opportunity to improve things for everyone else along the way. To make everything you do mean more. That’s the way we’ve always worked.

Everything to Make Your Work Mean More

No matter where you join us, we think you’ll find the work here challenging and interesting. You’ll get the tools you need to do a great job and you’ll have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. You can look forward to ongoing opportunities for learning and development. Along with finding ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability. All of which is great for your career.

Freedom to Push the Boundaries

Working life here is never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It’s about how you can grab everything that’s within your reach at Mars and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It’s about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we’ll all be better off.

It’s that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars a special place to work. And why working here is always about much, much more than just a job.

As one of our Five Principles, quality is our goal in everything we set out to achieve: the products we make, the services we provide and the people who make up the Mars team. For Mars, quality is measurable. Quality means guaranteeing consumers that our brands will live up to their expectations - time after time, without deviation. Quality is the result of unremitting attention to detail at every stage from picking the right raw materials to selecting Mars people who are excited by quality in their work. We can only deliver the quality we promise consumers if everyone at Mars is focused on this principle. For further information, please see our Quality section.

At Mars, we are proud of the fact that we make some of the world’s best-loved chocolate, but we are much more than a chocolate company. To know Mars, Incorporated is to understand our heritage, the Five Principles that guide us every day and are at the heart of how we operate, and have helped us become a successful global food business. Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom are the Five Principles that unite us across generations, geographies, languages and cultures. As a private, family-owned business, we have the freedom to invest in the long-term and to make sustainable business decisions that will help us endure for generations to come. Our business purpose, first expressed by Forrest E. Mars, Sr. in the early 1930s, calls upon us to create mutual benefits for all of our stakeholders. This purpose, and the stewardship of the Mars Family, inspires us to put our Principles into action in everything we do, and strive to make a difference to people and the planet through our performance. To learn more, please read our Principles in Action Summary.

The Mars Five Principles of Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom are the foundation of our culture and our approach to business. They unite us across geographies, languages, cultures and generations.

Over the years, they have been reviewed and refined, yet in essence they remain unchanged. The Five Principles are the real explanation for our success and the formula for our future. They express our vision of not only of who we are, but where - and what - we want to be. Simply put, they are our inspiration. Put into practice daily by our Associates all over the world, the Five Principles have developed into a practical, effective and unique way of doing business that collectively and individually sets Mars apart. For further information please see our Five Principles section.

Based in McLean, Virginia, Mars has net sales of more than $33 billion and six business segments including Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks and Symbioscience. More than 72,000 Associates worldwide are putting our Mars Principles in action every day to make a difference for people and the planet through our performance.

Mars brands include: Petcare – PEDIGREE^®, WHISKAS®, SHEBA^®, CESAR^® and ROYAL CANIN^®; Chocolate – M&M’S^®, SNICKERS^®, DOVE^®, GALAXY^®, MARS^®, MILKY WAY^® and TWIX^®; Wrigley – ORBIT^®, EXTRA^®, STARBURST^®, DOUBLEMINT^® and SKITTLES^®; Food – UNCLE BEN’S^®, DOLMIO^®, MASTERFOODS^® and SEEDS OF CHANGE^®; Drinks – ALTERRA COFFEE ROASTERS^™, THE BRIGHT TEA CO.^™, KLIX^® and FLAVIA^®; Symbioscience – COCOAVIA^® and WISDOM PANEL^®.