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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project’s readiness to go live.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools

• Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed

• Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings

• Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization

• Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live

• Own the relationship with the external vendors including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Proven experience in project management methodology

• Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members

• Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines

• Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery

• Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions

• Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making

• Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners

• Strong conceptual and analytic skills – enjoys problem solving

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

• Facilitate the category project approval/review process (Project Authorization Meeting – PAM); ensure all projects are properly documented and have been reviewed and agreed upon by all appropriate stakeholders; ensure project status’ is communicated to the teams in a timely matter and maintain categories project listing of all programs.

• Continuously improve the project management toolkits (Accolade) and methodologies (I2M) used within Mondelez; enable best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed out and key learning’s are documented.

• Manage I2M KPIs and Support Innovation Excellence - best in class Innovation Capability.

• Lead Cross Category / Special Projects and cross functional teams with an end-to-end perspective.

• Guarantee that project scopes and timing take into consideration minimizing waste (raw, pack and finished goods write-offs) and reducing complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, managing -----SKU proliferation) to the business system, champion these activities within the business and project teams.

• Promote that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning (for relevant projects) takes place, is communicated and agreed upon by all stakeholders and is acted on if necessary to keep the project on track or to accelerate the project if the business need exists.

• Facilitate the Portfolio Management Review (PMR) in order to ensure the health and sufficiency of the project funnel review over a 36+ month horizon and its ability to delivery business strategic goals.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Building Effective Teams

• Customer Focus

• Interpersonal Savvy

• Negotiating

• Drive for Results

• Priority Setting

• Organizing (calm under pressure)

• Directing Others

• Comfort Around Higher Management

• Strive to be Proactive, NOT Reactive

• Solution driven.

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree: accounting/finance, marketing, logistics, engineering, quality, food science, operations.

Job specific requirements:

• Extensive change / project management knowledge (I2M process or similar).

• Working knowledge of the supply chain and basic supply chain principles.

• Solid understanding of internal functional roles.

• Financial overview.

• Advanced level of English.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Wacam is Mondelēz International’s Latin America presence with more the 1700 wonderful people proudly representing a diversity of cultures and nationalities. Wacam includes 13 countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Bolivia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemela, El Salvador, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico. We make and distribute our global brands and local jewels such as Field, Club Social to over 190 million consumers.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

At Mondelez International we work under a hybrid model, in which our offices at WACAM offer us a space for connection, collaboration and co-creation, with attendance being subject to the needs of the teams themselves and/or the business.

Where permitted by internal policies and local laws, new hires are required to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment by their date of hire, unless they are granted a medical accommodation.

Job Type

Regular

Project and Program Management

Business Capability

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.

Join us and Make It An Opportunity!

Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.