Mars

Customer Service Manager- Out of Home & Value Leadership

Mars  •  Republic of India (Onsite)  •  6 hours ago
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Job Description

Key Responsibilities :

  1. OOH & Institutional Channel Customer Service & Fulfillment
  • Order-to-Delivery Operations: Own end-to-end customer service operations for HoReCa, Travel Retail, QSRs, Airlines, Canteens, and Institutional clients.
  • Service Level Excellence: Drive high fulfillment metrics (Case Fill Rate / Order Fill Rate / On-Time In-Full) while minimizing transit damages and turnaround time.
  • Customer Collaboration: Build strong collaborative relationships with key accounts, understanding their unique delivery constraints, order cycles, and customized packaging/palletization needs.
  • Claims & Dispute Management: Ensure seamless invoice matching, credit note management, and swift reconciliation of returns and claims
  1. Logistics Network & Route-to-Market Execution (OOH)
  • Distribution Strategy: Partner with Regional Logistics Managers to optimize regional warehousing, cross-docking, and last-mile freight for non-traditional channel routes.
  • Cold-Chain & Freshness Governance: Maintain strict product integrity and temperature control for temperature-sensitive confectionery across direct and indirect distribution points.
  • Inventory & S&OE Integration: Participate actively in weekly S&OE / DMR reviews to ensure stock availability and forecast alignment for high-volatility institutional orders
  1. Value Leadership & Continuous Improvement (Cross-Functional)
  • VL Pipeline Stewardship: Serve as the CS&ML PMO lead for Value Leadership, identifying, validating, and tracking cost-reduction and productivity projects (e.g., freight optimization, warehouse productivity, packaging simplification, payload maximization)
  • Cost-to-Serve Optimization: Model and monitor channel-wise Cost-to-Serve (CTS) analytics to deliver sustainable margin improvements.
  • Process Standardization & Digitalization: Lead Lean/CI initiatives to eliminate waste, standardize SOPs, and automate reporting/analytics across regional logistics hubs

Education & Professional Qualifications :

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Operations, or Supply Chain; MBA / Post-Graduate Diploma from a tier-1/2 business school preferred

Knowledge / Experience :

  • 5–9 years of progressive experience in Supply Chain, Customer Service, Logistics, or Route-to-Market operations in FMCG / CPG / Food & Beverage
  • Customer Centricity: Strong negotiation, customer relationship management, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Analytical & Financial Acumen: Strong proficiency in cost modelling, Cost-to-Serve analysis, and supply chain P&L levers.
  • Tool & Systems Proficiency: Hands-on experience with ERP systems (SAP S/4HANA / SD / MM), WMS/TMS, and BI tools (Power BI / Excel)

Key Competencies:

  • Strong stakeholder and conflict management skills with effective priority setting.
  • Thrives in fast-paced, high-pressure environments while maintaining professionalism and urgency.
  • Balances competing priorities and provides clear direction and focus to meet business needs.
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About Mars

We’re a unified force of 150,000+ Associates, taking action every day toward the world we want tomorrow.

Our Five Principles have kept us true to ourselves and to our commitment to treat others in ways that are consistent with those values. Having stood the test of time, these principles will continue, keeping us free to move quickly and plan for the future.

Quality - The consumer is our boss, quality is our work and value for money is our goal.

Responsibility - As individuals, we demand total responsibility from ourselves; as Associates, we support the responsibilities of others.

Mutuality - A mutual benefit is a shared benefit; a shared benefit will endure.

Efficiency - We use resources to the full, waste nothing and do only what we can do best.

Freedom - We need freedom to shape our future; we need profit to remain free.

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Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
McLean, Virginia
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
mars.com
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