Posted by Willy Franzen on October 30, 2009. Positions below updated every five minutes.
| Job Title | Location |
|---|---|
| Quality & Food Safety Technologist | Tulsa, OK |
| Software Engineer - Static Analysis | Seattle, WA |
| Software Engineer – Visual Studio Plugin | Seattle, WA |
| Professional Services Engineer | Boston, MA |
| Geospatial Data & Web Applications Engineer - Task 21 | Moffett Field, CA |
| Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer - Revl. | Mountain View, CA |
| CPFR Analyst | Fayetteville, AR |
| Analytical Lab Manager | Germantown, MD |
| SEM Manager | New York, NY |
| Shopper Insights Manager | Franklin, TN |
Tomorrow is Halloween, which means that we need to talk about candy today. We’ve already looked at companies like Jelly Belly, The Hershey Company, Charles Chocolates, Vosges, and Just Born Quality Confections. We’ve also discussed jobs at Mars & Co., which is a consulting firm, and not to be confused with Mars, the CPG and candy company. You probably know them best for M&M’s, Snickers, Dove, Milky Way, Twix, and Mars bar; however, they’re also behind Pedigree, Whiskas, Uncle Ben’s, and quite a few other brands. For your sake I hope you only run into the good stuff and not Whiskas or Pedigree during your trick-or-treating. While headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars has locations all across the world. They’re a huge company with a ton of international business, which makes for a great place to gain some experience.
It all started in 1911 with butter cream candies in a kitchen in Tacoma, WA. Frank C. Mars and his wife started selling these candies, and now you’d be hard pressed to find a person who has never tasted one of his company’s confections. If you’d like to be part of this true American success story, then you need to check out Mars’ Careers page. They offer a lot of information about their company and what it’s like to work for them, and they even have a separate section for students. It seems that most of the information that they provide is on International careers, but they have a job search function that will let you find what you’re looking for. And since you’re in the trick-or-treating mood, I’m going to leave that up to you—but just so you know, they have job opportunities in areas including Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Logisitcs, Manufacturing, Marketing, Purchasing, Research & Development, & Sales.
Links to Help You Begin Your Research
What’s your favorite candy from Mars?
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