Mars Inc opens first GCC in Hyderabad with plans to hire 1,000 techies | Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: Global snacking, confectionery and petcare major Mars Inc formally opened its first global capability centre (GCC) in Hyderabad in collaboration with Genpact, expanding its India presence and strengthening the city’s role as a hub for global enterprise technology operations.Spread across 60,000 sq ft, Hyderabad Capability Centre (HCC) will support Mars’ global operations across digital, data and artificial intelligence functions. The company plans to more than double the centre’s footprint by adding another 70,000 sq ft in the future.
Telangana IT & industries minister D Sridhar Babu inaugurates the global capability centre of US-based FMCG giant Mars Inc in Hyderabad on Thursday along with Mars Inc CFO Claus Aagaard (2nd from Left), Tarun Chopra, unit leader, consumer goods, Genpact (2nd from Right) and Marina F Bellini, president of global services and digital technologies at Mars (extreme right)
The centre, which opened with more than 400 Genpact colleagues that will transition to Mars full time in future, is expected to scale to 1,000 Mars associates over time. The centre has been set up under the build, own, transform and transfer (BOTT) model and will be part of Mars’ global network of strategic hubs focused on improving operational speed, consistency and visibility across markets.Mars said HCC builds on its partnership with Genpact, established in 2018, and it will use Genpact’s process expertise and agentic AI-assisted operating model to help design future business operations under a governance framework with human oversight.Mars chief financial officer Claus Aagaard said India has been part of the company’s growth for decades and remains an important market. He said the new centre would help Mars connect expertise across markets, advance digital capabilities and become more agile and future-ready.Telangana IT and industries minister D Sridhar Babu, who inaugurated the facility, said GCCs are becoming key drivers of Telangana’s economic growth. He said the state govt is positioning Hyderabad beyond conventional IT services and developing it as a global hub for technology, research and development, data analytics, product design, engineering and innovation.Marina F Bellini, president of global services and digital technologies at Mars, said HCC is its first GCC globally but is part of a wider network of technology development centres in Guararema in Brazil, Querétaro in Mexico, Warsaw in Poland and Guangzhou in China.“The scale of the Hyderabad centre would be bigger than our other centres and will house high-skilled capabilities across data analytics, AI, process redesign and agentic cyber,” she said.Tarun Chopra, unit leader, consumer goods, Genpact, said the centre, set up initially in October 2025, has been operational since March this year and already has more than 400 people, with another 140 offers made.Mars has operated in India since 1995 and has invested in seven local factories. It employs 2,400 associates across snacking, food and nutrition, pet nutrition and Royal Canin operations. Recent investments include a $55 million expansion of its Hyderabad pet nutrition factory and a $12 million Royal Canin distribution and packaging centre.
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