Building Workforce Intelligence With Unity Catalog and Databricks Genie

Mars Inc., with more than 140,000 associates across its confectionery, pet care, and food businesses, set out to reimagine how workforce decisions are made. Leaders needed a single, trusted view of the associate journey to move beyond fragmented dashboards and enable faster and fairer decisions.

Partnering with Tiger Analytics, Mars established Associate 360, a unified workforce intelligence platform. A common data model brings together hire-to-retire data across segments, standardizes definitions, and ensures trust through Unity Catalog. Natural language querying enabled through Databricks Genie lets business users get insights and visualizations instantly.

Impact delivered:

• One connected view of the end-to-end associate lifecycle
• Consistent, trusted metrics across businesses
• Time-based insights for better workforce planning
• Faster onboarding of acquisitions without compromising data quality
• A shift from static reports to decision-ready workforce intelligence