Director, Sustainability Digital Services (Product Group Manager)

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.
This newly established, pivotal Director role leads the digital evolution of Mondelēz International's critical ESG initiatives, including Climate, Packaging, Sustainable Sourcing, and Social Disclosures. As the Director, PLCS (Procurement, Legal, CGA and Sustainability), Sustainability Product Group Management, you will drive the technological roadmap and lead complex product lifecycles to achieve our "Snacking Made Right" commitments. This position is for a visionary leader passionate about building high-performing teams and delivering tangible value in a dynamic FMCG environment.
How you will contribute
You will define, implement, and own the short-term and long-term strategy, vision, and roadmaps for the entire Sustainability Product Group, ensuring alignment with broader business goals. This involves:

• Strategic Product Leadership: Define and implement the product group's strategy and vision.
• End-to-End Ownership: Oversee the full product lifecycle, from ideation to retirement, ensuring continuous value and optimal financial performance.
• Stakeholder & Partner/Vendor Management: Serve as the senior point of contact, translating business requirements into technology solutions and managing strategic vendor partnerships.
• Innovation & Digitalization: Champion continuous improvement and oversee the automation/digitalization roadmap for sustainability outcomes.
• Governance & Compliance: Establish decision-making processes, manage budgets, ensure security compliance, and mitigate risks.
• Team & Talent Development: Directly manage, coach, and mentor Product Managers, fostering a high-performance culture, and building necessary capabilities.
• Financial Accountability: Accountable for the financial performance of your Product Group, including budgetary decisions.

What you will bring

• Deep Domain Expertise: Proven experience and knowledge in specific sustainability disciplines (Climate, Packaging, Sustainability Disclosures, Ingredients, Social, and regulations).
• Leadership Acumen: Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams.
• Strategic & Collaborative Mindset: Exceptional strategic thinking and strong collaborative management skills to influence global stakeholders.
• Product Management Mastery: Extensive experience applying product management discipline across the full product lifecycle, with a strong understanding of Agile and DevOps.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Accountability for financial performance, budgetary decisions, and value creation.
• Change Leadership: Proven track record of driving organizational change and communicating complex issues effectively.

More about this role
What you need to know about this position:

• Key Outputs/Deliverables
  • Implement product group strategy, vision, and roadmaps.
  • Apply product management discipline across all products and manage their lifecycle.
  • Drive continuous improvement through data-driven practices, automation, and digitalization.
  • Ensure product and platform integration, security compliance, and risk management.
• Metrics
  • Product Lifetime Value, Engagement & Adoption
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) / Product Value for Money
  • Product Group Data Adoption & Quality
  • Security & Compliance Scores
  • Agile & DevOps Scores
  • Resource Retention Rate
• Key Interactions/Stakeholders
  • Internal: Act as Product Group point of contact, collaborate across the organization (stakeholders, suppliers, other product managers, CIO's office), provide visibility to Product Stream Lead, Strategic Architect, Portfolio Manager, and Operations Manager. Manage, coach, and mentor teams.
  • External (Vendors/Partners): Oversee vendor relationships for development, testing, and support. Develop a comprehensive vendor strategy, ensure service delivery excellence, influence product roadmaps, mitigate risks, optimize costs, and leverage innovation for competitive advantage.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Functional Skills: Change Leadership, Product Management, Business & Strategy definition, Modelling techniques.
• Technical Skills: Deep experience in end-to-end technology development, strong understanding of emerging software engineering methodologies (especially in sustainability), practical agile delivery experience.
• Methodologies: Knowledge of Agile frameworks.
• Behavioral: Management and collaboration within business and own teams, ability to inspire teams, effectively convey complex issues to diverse audiences, and create an innovative culture.

Job specific requirements:

• Experience:
  • 15+ years overall experience.
  • 3+ years in sustainability.
  • 3+ years in product management.

Travel requirements:

• As per business needs

Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $142,700 to $235,455; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results and eligibility to participate in our long-term incentive program.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz 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.
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Job Type
Regular
Experience Management
Global Business Services