Product Owner - Intelligent Perfect Store

Mars is hiring a Product Owner to lead the strategy, delivery, and ongoing evolution of the Perfect Store platform, enabling consistent, high-quality in-store execution across brands, channels, and geographies. This role turns Perfect Store frameworks into scalable digital workflows, data models, and insights that field teams and commercial leadership can rely on.

This is an onsite position in Chicago, IL. The base pay range at commencement of employment is USD 134,400.00 - USD 184,800.00, and the total compensation package includes variable pay.

What you’ll do

• Own the global Perfect Store platform vision and operating model.
• Translate Perfect Store principles, including availability, assortment, pricing, shelving, promotions, and visibility, into standardized platform capabilities.
• Define global versus local execution rules to balance scalability with market relevance.
• Lead the design and evolution of the platform, including:
  • Store visit workflows and tasking
  • Audit compliance using Image Recognition
  • KPI scoring, weighting, and compliance logic
• Ensure mobile-first, field-ready execution leveraging Image Recognition.
• Drive data quality and actionable execution insights at multiple levels:
  • Store level for rep action
  • Manager level for coaching
  • Executive level for performance visibility
• Lead global rollouts across regions, banners, and routes-to-market.
• Partner with regional sales, trade marketing, and distributors to drive field adoption.
• Ensure the platform is embedded into daily execution rhythms, not treated as a reporting-only tool.
• Act as a central integrator across Sales Operations Commercial Excellence, IT / Digital / Data, and external platform/integration partners.
• Own prioritization, roadmap alignment, and dependency management.
• Incorporate feedback from field teams and leadership to improve platform capabilities.
• Evaluate and integrate new capabilities, including AI, image recognition, and automation.
• Benchmark against industry best practices and competitor approaches.

What you bring

• 8–12+ years in CPG Commercial Excellence, Retail Execution, Sales Operations, or Digital Transformation.
• Hands-on experience with Perfect Store programs across multiple markets.
• Experience leading global platforms or enterprise solutions.
• Deep understanding of Perfect Store methodologies.
• A platform and product mindset, with strong data and KPI fluency.
• Executive communication and change leadership.
• Experience with retail execution systems and mobile field tools, including distributor and route-to-market models.
• Knowledge of trade promotion and in-store activation.
• Experience with Image Recognition Technologies, plus analytics, dashboards, and performance management.

Tools and capabilities

• Salesforce
• Image Recognition
• AI
• Automation

How success is measured

• Adoption of Perfect Store workflows by field teams
• Improvement in execution KPIs (OSA, compliance, share of shelf)
• Reduction in manual audits and offline tools
• Speed and consistency of global rollouts
• Executive confidence in execution visibility

Benefits

• Variable pay
• Medical and dental benefits
• Participation in a 401k plan
• Paid time off benefits