Adam Grant: Boss At Mars UK, Running the world's largest chocolate brand in the UK

My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

Business, Careers

4.2 • 5 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Check out the latest careers at Mars:

http://www.maltesers.co.uk/lighten-the-load

Episode Guest

Meet Adam Grant, General Manager at Mars Wrigley UK.

Adam Grant is General Manager (GM) of Mars Wrigley UK, a role he has held since 2021. Mars produces some of Britain’s most loved brands, from Ben’s Original to Sheba and Maltesers. As General Manager for Mars Wrigley UK and overall lead for Mars’ UK business, Adam Grant is navigating innovative product development and sustainability initiatives across the business.

With 25 years’ consumer goods industry experience, Adam joined Mars Wrigley from Danone, where he spent 17 years, most recently as Regional GM - Danone Dairy UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Ireland, where he led the team to deliver significant growth in sales and category share.

Passionate about mentorship both within and outside the business, Adam volunteers for ORT, a charity working with A Level students to provide mentoring and support around career and A level choices and PSALT, an organisation championing and mentoring under-represented talent at the early stages of their careers.

Episode Timestamps

00:00 Finding Your Passion and Purpose

08:22 Exploring Job Opportunities in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industry

15:31 Joining an Apprenticeship Program for Career Development

19:03 Creating and Launching a New Product

23:51 Making a Difference and Leaving a Positive Impact

26:45 Embracing Curiosity and Continuous Learning

27:45 Finding Joy in Your Work

Episode Partner

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With over $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, 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 its more than 115,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

Transcript

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0:00.0	What gives you energy? What makes you smile?
0:02.0	What do you think? Oh wow, that was a really great moment in my day or my week.
0:05.0	Then how can I think about some of those things that I really enjoy
0:08.0	to then actually go and find some type of career or job that needs to still to use some of those skills?
0:14.0	We're all good at something, right? Whether it's numbers, whether it's art,
0:17.0	whether it's being creative, whether it's problem solving.
0:20.0	You just need to find your thing.
0:23.6	Hi, I'm Adam Grant. I'm the general manager for Myers-Rigley in the UK and across our mass snacking, food, pet care and veterinary business
0:30.6	we employ nearly 10,000 associates. This is my duvet flip.
0:34.6	How do you figure out your purpose? Where do you start?
0:37.7	What do you do?
0:38.8	It's what gives you energy.
0:40.2	What gives you that fire, that dry, that hunger,
0:43.4	that make you think, wow, that just felt incredible.
0:45.6	If I'm coming into the organization
0:47.5	and I'm committed, I'm curious, what are you looking for?
0:50.7	What is the difference that you're making?
0:52.2	It's really important.
0:53.6	Whatever job you're in, you've got something you're being famous for.
0:56.0	What was one of the things that you're famous for?
0:59.0	My final, final question is what's your dovet flip?
1:03.0	What gets you out of the bed in the morning to flip the duvet?
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