Jobs at pladis Global

Leads process excellence strategy across R&D and manufacturing, driving Lean Six Sigma, statistical process control, waste reduction, productivity, and process capability improvements. Partners with engineering, operations, quality, procurement, supply chain, and R&D teams on trials, machinery, technology implementation, and capital projects. Builds continuous improvement capability, establishes KPIs, delivers training, and reports measurable benefits and risks to senior stakeholders.

Leads process improvement across R&D and manufacturing by running technical trials, analyzing performance, applying Lean Six Sigma and SPC, identifying root causes, reducing waste, optimizing processes, and supporting equipment and technology implementation. Collaborates with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, and R&D teams to deliver measurable improvements in productivity, quality, capacity, cost, and process capability.

Manage full-cycle recruitment and onboarding for hourly and salaried manufacturing roles. Build candidate pipelines, screen and interview applicants, coordinate onboarding, track temporary employee conversions, maintain ATS records, ensure EEO and hiring compliance, manage staffing agency relationships, support workforce planning and retention, report recruitment metrics, and conduct 30-, 60-, and 90-day new-hire check-ins.

Develop and manage demand forecasts, inventory plans, and promotional planning across Godiva’s eCommerce channels. Analyze sales trends, forecast variances, inventory health, product shelf life, and demand drivers. Collaborate with channel, marketing, merchandising, supply planning, and operations teams to support product availability, optimize inventory, launch products, and mitigate excess or obsolete stock. Create actionable reporting and contribute to continuous planning process improvements.

Support account managers across Asda by managing invoicing allocation, promotional planning and administration, price file and NPD maintenance, shipper plan and secondary space tracking, store audits, post-promotional analysis, and support customer/field sales meetings and base rate reviews.

Leads global FP&A, commercial finance, forecasting, budgeting, financial reporting, and business performance analysis for Godiva and pladis brands. Oversees regional and consolidated reporting, financial modeling, working capital and cash flow analysis, NPD performance tracking, cost-center management, and recharge processes. Provides decision support, evaluates business cases, develops planning processes and analytical tools, supports consolidation-system implementation, and partners with senior global stakeholders to improve performance and standardization.

Project Executive role at pladis, a global biscuits and confectionery company. The posting emphasizes supporting the company’s ambitious growth, iconic brands, infrastructure, and people while demonstrating purpose, resilience, positivity, agility, collaboration, and accountability. No specific responsibilities, qualifications, technologies, compensation, travel, or clearance requirements are provided.

Owns category growth for the cake business by partnering with major grocery retailers. Develops customer-specific category plans, optimizes product range, distribution, space, promotions, location, and availability, and participates in range reviews. Analyzes market and shopper data to generate insights, communicate recommendations, influence decision-makers, and improve customer and company performance.

Leads finance for three European entities and headquarters overhead functions, managing financial close, reporting, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic plans. Partners with commercial, marketing, and supply chain teams on business cases, pricing, profitability, investments, and performance. Provides regional analysis and recommendations to leadership, leads performance reviews, improves reporting and planning processes, and supports strategic projects and transformation initiatives while managing two controllers.

The Human Resources Executive role supports the company’s people strategy within a fast-growing global confectionery business. The description emphasizes collaboration, accountability, agility, resilience, and contributing to a diverse workforce. Specific day-to-day responsibilities and qualification requirements are not provided.

Lead indirect procurement for France and the Netherlands, developing category strategies, managing suppliers, conducting tenders, and delivering cost optimization, supply continuity, sustainability, and innovation. The role partners with manufacturing, supply chain, R&D, Finance, marketing, and global procurement teams; oversees contracts, budgets, supplier performance, specifications, pricing, and compliance; and drives strategic procurement projects and stakeholder relationships.

Supports breakthrough food product innovation from technical concept through prototype, pilot, and factory trials. Develops scalable processes, product architectures, specifications, and technical solutions while applying scientific methods, ingredient and product characterization, texture and rheology analysis, and data interpretation. Collaborates with global innovation, engineering, product development, marketing, suppliers, and manufacturing teams to meet quality, cost, timing, sustainability, and productivity objectives. Ensures GMP compliance, project documentation, technical gates, and effective handover to regional product development teams.

Leads global breakthrough product innovation across indulgence and next-generation kids categories. Develops long-term innovation and technology roadmaps, manages technically complex product development projects, and guides commercialization. Builds cross-functional, regional, supplier, and external technology partnerships while leading scientists and engineers. Oversees technical governance, risk management, NPD gating, quality standards, cost-saving initiatives, budgets, and capability development to deliver growth, productivity, sustainability, and differentiated products.

Lead cocoa and chocolate research, developing innovative and sustainable materials, blends, extenders, substitutes, and products for confectionery and baked applications. Own prototyping, bench and pilot trials, factory scale-up, technical validation, and solutions to product challenges. Build cocoa processing expertise, identify patentable opportunities, support sourcing strategies, and collaborate with procurement, suppliers, sensory, marketing, quality, supply chain, and operations teams.

Lead the HR agenda for a manufacturing site, partnering with leadership to drive culture, engagement, workforce planning, capability building, performance, absence management, and people-cost control. Own union and industrial relations, including consultations, negotiations, grievances, and agreements. Coach managers, support organizational change, oversee talent and succession processes, deliver people KPIs, and coordinate with HR centers of excellence on reward, learning, wellbeing, inclusion, and employee relations.

Own brand portfolio strategy, annual and long-term planning, revenue and profit delivery, consumer insight, innovation, renovation, and integrated marketing programs. Lead cross-functional teams, agencies, and commercial partners; manage budgets and performance reviews; influence senior stakeholders; and deliver brand growth, launches, in-store activation, and sales-driving initiatives across digital, social, out-of-home, and retail channels.

The job description provides limited role-specific details. The Senior Product Development Manager will likely support product development within a global biscuits and confectionery business, collaborating across teams to deliver quality consumer products and contribute to the growth of iconic brands. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract emphasizing agility, accountability, resilience, collaboration, and commercial impact.

Develop and execute brand strategy for iconic consumer food brands. Responsibilities include analyzing positioning and consumer insights, translating strategy into go-to-market plans, managing agency-led creative development, setting sales and brand-health goals, measuring campaign ROI, monitoring markets and competitors, overseeing marketing activities, and leading product and packaging innovation initiatives.

Manage end-to-end export operations for land and sea shipments in KSA: prepare export documentation, ensure SFDA and customs compliance, coordinate bookings and transport, handle legalization and claims, maintain export trackers and Smartsheet, verify freight invoices, and support cross-functional teams for timely shipment execution.

The Sales Intern will analyze store traffic and customer reactions, promote offers, manage inventory, and build customer relationships to maximize sales.