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?
Timings
We run our recruitment in three waves between September and the beginning of April. Our general advice to you is to get your application in as early as you can.
Wave 1 First Round Interviews: Middle of November 2011. Final Round Assessment Centres: Beginning of December 2011. Offers will be made to successful candidates prior to Xmas.
The application cut date to be seen in Wave 1 is November 13th 2011.
Wave 2 First and Final Rounds: End of January 2012. Offers made at the end of Jan.
Wave 3 (if required) First and Final Rounds: March 2012. Offers made at the end of March.
Minimum Requirements
Please note that you can only apply for one programme or placement.
This year we require a minimum of a 2:1 or equivalent at degree level and at least 300 UCAS points (non including any earned from general studies)
What to do next
Please take a few minutes to read through the "How to apply" section of this site to find some hints and tips that are designed to help you with your application.
