Overview

Established a little over 50 years ago, Mars Drinks has quickly become a special part of the Mars business. To customers and consumers, we’re dedicated to our mission 'to deliver the single hot drinks experience in the worlds workplaces' through leading brands such as KLIX and FLAVIA. To the people who are actually based here, we’re able to offer an environment that balances the benefits of a large, global company with the type of autonomy more in keeping with a much smaller organisation.

This means you’ll have the freedom to bring your ideas to life and broaden your skill set while enjoying a career path that, as well as being truly global, really allows you to develop and deploy your talents to the full.

Location

Situated about 30 miles from London, Basingstoke is a prosperous town that’s home to a number of big businesses, including the Mars Drinks factory and national office. The national office is where you’ll find our finance function, HR, logistics, contact centre (customer service), and sales divisions (including national sales across direct and indirect channels). It also has plenty of break-out areas, a beautiful glass atrium and like our factory, a highly supportive, non-hierarchical working environment.

Culture

At Mars Drinks, our small size brings with it fast decision making processes, challenging remits for our people and the flexibility to continually evolve as a business. At the same time, as part of Mars Inc, we also benefit from the security, benefits and profile you’d expect from a worldwide house-hold name. It all makes for a great working environment, where you’ll be able to contribute as you gain exposure to a fast paced B2B setting.

Something else we value here is an ongoing commitment to sustainability. We actively encourage our people to make a difference because our business is about more than just meeting commercial targets. For example, our Brighter Tomorrow initiative enables us to work with farmers from selected co-operatives in Malawi and Kenya, helping them to improve the quality of their product and command a higher price for their yield.

Opportunities

As well as recruiting externally, we’re firm believers in promoting from within and helping our people move around the company to experience a multitude of roles. So whether you join us in manufacturing, HR, finance, logistics, customer service, R&D, sales, marketing, purchasing or engineering, we can put you on a career path that guarantees you exposure to our whole business. And that’s something that will enable you to take your career in the direction you want.