JOB DESCRIPTIONJob Description:Job Title - Product AnalystSegment / Business Unit - Mars SnackingCountry / Site - India (Mumbai)Job Function - Digital Technology, AMEAExpected Job Level - T1Manager’s Name & Position - Deepawal GroverJob Purpose:The Product Analyst – Field Sales Execution will work closely with the Product Owner to translate product vision, business priorities, and frontline sales needs into scalable digital capabilities for the AMEA region The role will act as a key bridge between Product, Business, Technology, Data, UX, and market teams, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, development-ready, effectively delivered, and aligned with the overall Retail Execution product strategy.Job Responsibilities:Product Owner & Product Management Support

- Partner closely with the Product Owner to translate product vision and roadmap into capabilities, features, and user stories.
- Support product discovery, feature definition, backlog refinement, and prioritization.
- Provide analysis, options, business impact, and recommendations to support Product Owner decisions.
- Ensure the product backlog is sufficiently refined and ready for development.
- Laise with global product team to understand release cycle and product changes

Business & Functional Analysis
- Engage with global and cluster Sales teams, field representatives, and market stakeholders to understand business processes, pain points, and opportunities.
- Translate business requirements into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and functional requirements.
- Analyze requirements to identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and reuse across markets.
- Identify functional gaps, dependencies, edge cases, and integration requirements.

Agile Delivery
- Work closely with engineering, architecture, UX, data, and QA teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily collaboration, product demos, and retrospectives along with Product Owner
- Clarify functional requirements during development and facilitate timely resolution of business questions.
- Validate delivered capabilities against requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Support dependency and defect management across teams

Market Engagement & Product Adoption




- Gather structured feedback from markets and frontline users.
- Help differentiate local requirements from capabilities that should become part of the global product.
- Support pilots, market rollouts, training, release communications, and adoption activities.
- Analyze usage and adoption to identify opportunities for continuous product improvement.

Scope:Key interfaces will be:

- Global Product Team
- Clusters One Demand Team
- Regional One Demand Team

Job Specifications:Education & Professional Qualification

- 2-5 years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Product Management, or related roles.
- Experience working within CPG/FMCG Sales, Retail Execution, CRM, SFA, or commercial technology.
- Strong understanding of CPG field-sales and Retail Execution processes.
- Experience working with Product Owners and Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
- Robust capability in requirements gathering, process mapping, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog refinement.
- Experience supporting UAT and product releases.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.

Knowledge / Experience

- Experience with Salesforce or other CRM/SFA/Retail Execution platforms.
- Understanding of Perfect Store methodologies and execution KPIs.
- Exposure to mobile applications, APIs, integrations, data platforms, and analytics.
- Experience with image recognition, GenAI, Agentic AI, or intelligent sales-assistant capabilities.
- Experience working on global products deployed across multiple markets and route-to-market models.

About Mars:

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $50 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M;’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL® and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands,



we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, Blue Pearl®, Linnaeus, Ani Cura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 150,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

Commitment to Equal Employer Opportunities:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in accordance with applicable law and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other category protected under federal, state, and local laws. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.A Note to Candidates Regarding AIEmbracing AI as a vital skill for today and tomorrow, we welcome candidates to use AI to assist with your preparation as you engage with our recruiting process—from helping to perfect your CV/resume to using it to refine your interview skills. While AI can assist you, we expect that your ideas, responses, and demonstration of competencies throughout the recruitment process are authentically your own. We value genuine engagement and want to see the real you shine. At Mars, AI is here to support—not replace—the human connection at the heart of our recruitment process.Note to Search Firms/Agencies:Mars, Incorporated and its subsidiaries and affiliates (Mars) do not compensate search firms for unsolicited assistance unless they have a written search agreement with Mars and the requisition is position-specific. Any resumes, curriculum vitae, and other unsolicited assistance from search firms that do not have a written search agreement or position-specific requisition submitted to any Associate of Mars will be deemed the sole property of Mars and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Mars.

📌 Product Analyst - Field Sales Execution, AMEA (India)
🏢 Mars
📍 India