Students and Graduates
Students and Graduates
What is special about the Mars Leadership Experience Program?
The Mars Leadership Experience is not your average graduate program! Our award winning, 2-year program is packed with great experiences, opportunities and learning.
To us, every graduate is a potential leader. That’s why we offer you the unique opportunity to step into a real role, right from the start. You’ll be given real responsibility and empowered to make an impact right from the get-go.
Our graduates complete 2 x 12-month rotations across our business in Australia and New Zealand, allowing you to truly experience the breadth of our business. We have multiple factories and offices across Australia and New Zealand, and we are looking for open minded graduates who are willing to take on any experience across locations and functional groups.
With mentorship from senior leaders, hands-on experience, and a collaborative environment, you’ll rapidly develop the skills and knowledge needed to become a future leader and fast track your career.
Check out our 2025 Mars Leadership Experience Streams
Check out our 2025 Mars Leadership Experience Streams
Sales & Marketing (Australia)
Our Sales & Marketing teams drive our business forward by building strong retailer relationships and boosting consumer demand and loyalty.
The Marketing team creates demand through brand awareness, consumer engagement, and loyalty, crafting compelling narratives from customer insights and iconic campaigns.
Our Sales teams focus on building strong relationships with our retailers and distributors. They work closely with our retail partners to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, ensuring our products are well-represented and readily available to consumers.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Open to any degree discipline, Marketing degrees would be highly regarded
The Marketing team creates demand through brand awareness, consumer engagement, and loyalty, crafting compelling narratives from customer insights and iconic campaigns.
Our Sales teams focus on building strong relationships with our retailers and distributors. They work closely with our retail partners to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, ensuring our products are well-represented and readily available to consumers.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Open to any degree discipline, Marketing degrees would be highly regarded
Supply Chain (Australia)
Our Supply team is the driving force behind our operations, ensuring products are delivered efficiently to meet consumer demand.The Supply team bridges the gap between our manufacturing sites and our customers, working hard to maintain the availability of our products.
By overseeing our international and national supply chain, they ensure regulatory compliance, timely deliveries, and optimal transport methods, reducing costs and improving the experience for customers and retailers
Preferred educational background or interest:
Business, Commerce, Management, Supply Chain / Logistics, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Economics, International Business
Engineering (Australia)
Our Engineering team plays a critical role in our success, ensuring efficient and sustainable production of our iconic products.
By focusing on sustainability and continuous improvement, the Engineering team plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality products while minimizing our environmental impact.
From troubleshooting issues, to running projects to streamline operations, no two days are the same in this dynamic team.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Mechanical or Process Engineering preferred, but open to all Engineering disciplines
By focusing on sustainability and continuous improvement, the Engineering team plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality products while minimizing our environmental impact.
From troubleshooting issues, to running projects to streamline operations, no two days are the same in this dynamic team.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Mechanical or Process Engineering preferred, but open to all Engineering disciplines
Procurement (Australia)
Our Procurement team is the backbone of our efficient and cost effective operations, managing supplier relationships to keep everything running smoothly.
They source the best goods and serviced at the right price, handle supplier negotiations, and ensure all raw materials and packaging are available.
From evaluating suppliers to managing contracts, they ensure we get what we need, when we need it, in the most sustainable way possible.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Commerce, Economics, Business Finance, International Business, Engineering, Procurement & Purchasing
They source the best goods and serviced at the right price, handle supplier negotiations, and ensure all raw materials and packaging are available.
From evaluating suppliers to managing contracts, they ensure we get what we need, when we need it, in the most sustainable way possible.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Commerce, Economics, Business Finance, International Business, Engineering, Procurement & Purchasing
Multi-Function (New Zealand)
Our New Zealand business is a diverse mix of passionate Associate who focus on the marketing, sale and distribution of our products within NZ.
With Teams accross Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing and HR, graduates in New Zealand will complete one rotation in Sales and then a second rotation in a diffferent function. This builds exceptional breadth in our graduates which positions them to become leaders in the FMCG industry.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Open to any degree discipline
With Teams accross Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing and HR, graduates in New Zealand will complete one rotation in Sales and then a second rotation in a diffferent function. This builds exceptional breadth in our graduates which positions them to become leaders in the FMCG industry.
Preferred educational background or interest:
Open to any degree discipline
Our Selection Process
Hear from our graduates!
Take a look at our 2023 Graduates, Reisha and Josh as they take you through their "Day in the life of" working for Mars Australia and Mars New Zealand.
A career journey that's right for you
All interns and graduates benefit from coaching throughout their programs. Graduates will also benefit from a senior mentor as part of the program framework.
With the Mars Ambassador Program, Associates spend two to six weeks working with non-profit partners, making a positive difference to major social and environmental issues.
Our Sustainable in a Generation initiative works to reduce our impact on the planet. Read more here.
Mars University provides high-quality learning for our Associates, 24/7. This combines with a whole culture of learning, where we naturally collaborate and learn from each other.
With over 90 ARG groups globally, you can impact the communities you care about.
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