BRAVE COMMERCE Mars Wrigley’s Neil Reynolds on Building Global Digital Commerce from the Ground Up
Nov 4, 2025
Neil Reynolds, Global Chief Customer and Digital Commerce Officer at Mars Wrigley, shares his insights on modernizing digital commerce and retail partnerships. He emphasizes that transformation is a capability, not just a campaign, and discusses the importance of cross-functional alignment and local investment. Neil highlights the need for customer teams to adopt growth marketing mindsets and how foundational elements like clear data and unified strategies are essential, even in a digital-first world. He also explores practical AI applications that enhance efficiency and support talent development.
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Unify Capabilities Across Channels
- Digital commerce must power both legacy retail and new channels through unified customer capabilities.
- Mars builds category, customer, and perfect-store capabilities to win across the consumer journey.
Three Questions To Guide Career Moves
- Ask three career questions before taking a role: what energizes you, what do you want to learn, and what will you bring to the role.
- Be open-minded about roles because your next best job might not yet exist.
Customer Leadership Scales To Digital Growth
- Early customer leadership roles build external orientation and P&L thinking that scale into digital commerce leadership.
- Combining operational levers with storytelling and vision drives cross-functional growth.