Strategic Sales Internship - Newark - Summer 2025

At Mars, we work together to build a better world for people, pets, and the planet. From being a socially responsible business, to investing in our Associates, we're always looking at how we can make tomorrow brighter.

As an Associate, you are empowered with the freedom and tools to be yourself, to forge your own path, to build relationships across our global community, to discover the right opportunities for you to grow – all with ample support. Here, you have our ongoing commitment to your growth and development as you work across our world-famous brands.

Start your journey at Mars today!

Mars Wrigley Strategic Sales Internship Experience

As a Mars Wrigley Strategic Sales Intern, you will gain exposure to the following:

Join a team of collaborative, motivated sales associates and own a business objective from start to finish. This may include elements of strategic planning, execution, or working with customers, all focused on amplifying our iconic confection brands for shoppers and consumers. You will participate in engagement activities, learn about other Demand areas of the business, and engage with senior stakeholders. Your project objectives are real and impactful and often turn into broader business workstreams or deliverables.

What are we looking for?

• Curious students with high drive, a desire to learn, and who value relationship-building.
• Students who are passionate about Sales & Marketing and the CPG industry.
• Students to intern for the upcoming summer of their final graduation date (interviewing as current juniors, to intern as rising seniors).
• Students legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future work status authorization or visa sponsorship for employment.
• Internship employment is contingent upon successful completion of drug & background screening.
• Students will be working at our Newark, New Jersey location

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Owning a real-time, relevant, business project that includes sales data & analytics, problem solving and creative thinking.
• Delivering a final business recommendation to leadership and peers.
• Integrating into one of many internal teams within the sales function.
• Meeting with cross-functional partners within sales and marketing and beyond.

What can you expect from Mars?

• A sales internship curriculum with different levels of support including peers, mentors, senior leaders and a variety of educational sessions.
• Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

About Mars, Incorporated

For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.

Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of Confectionery, Food, and Petcare products and services, we employ over 140,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’S®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL™, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses, including AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, and VCA™.

We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive. The Mars Compass, inspired by the Economics of Mutuality, is used to measure the company’s progress in service of its purpose; The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today.

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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.