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Graduate programmes

Choose Your Route To The Top

You’ve set your sights high. You want to achieve great things. We can help. Our diverse development programmes have different things to offer depending on your particular skills and goals.

 
 

Whichever route you choose, you’ll have access to a fantastic support structure - including experienced line managers and your own personal mentor, who’ll be on hand to offer advice and guidance throughout your programme. Responsibility will come quickly, and on a scale that you’d be hard pushed to find anywhere else. Plus you’ll have freedom, and the opportunity, to drive your own development and ultimately determine your own destiny.

Two clear paths.

Broadly speaking, you can go one of two ways. If you’re the kind of talented, decisive and unshakeably focused individual who just knows where their future lies, then one of our specialist programmes will be spot on. In a nutshell this is your chance to become an expert in Finance, R&D, Sales Development, Engineering or Procurement; your chance to gain professional qualifications that open countless doors; and your chance to absorb a mixture of first-rate technical training and invaluable commercial experience.

Alternatively, there’s the generalist route: aka the Mars Management Development Programme (MMDP). Lasting three years, the MMDP provides business-leaders-in-the-making the opportunity to develop expertise across a range of functions. That breadth of front-line management experience, plus the endless senior-level support that comes with it, all adds up to create a development package that turns the very good into true business greats.

Either way, it’s a formula that’s enabled countless grads, from right across the business, to start their own Mars success stories. Where will yours begin?

 

General Management

Manager? Director? CEO? If you've got your sights set firmly on the top, this is how to get there

European finance

We don't see finance as a separate entity. In fact, our finance people work more as business consultants, collaborating across the business to drive our global success.

Sales

We've got some truly fantastic brands and products and our customers enjoy selling them. This makes for a fairly unique sales enviroment.

Engineering

You've set your sights on a career in engineering. So why join Mars? We think there are plenty of reasons, but we'll leave you to make up your own mind.

Procurement

Whatever Mars, Inc. needs, this is the team that buys it. From packaging equipment and raw materials, to advertising space and even forklift truck leases.