Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You lead a portfolio of projects that follow a globally harmonized process to ensure the right decisions are made at key points through the project lifecycle. Projects are aligned with our business strategy and senior stakeholder management engagement is required. Managing the portfolio of projects includes standard project processes, but also the tools used to plan, create, assess, balance and communicate execution of projects that support our global and/or regional goals and strategies.
You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget to ensure that benefits can be realised.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Lead cross functional project teams to ensure the delivery of various strategic projects.
- Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools. This will include managing weekly project team meetings, sharing project meeting minutes and updates, and reporting on progress in various forums.
- Manage a portfolio of projects, with multiple projects executing at the same time.
- Confirm the completion of projects and their readiness to go live.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to the appropriate parties as required
- Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings.
- Where necessary, engage with the external stakeholders including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery.
- Support the use of processes and tool used to manage projects
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Strong, proven experience in managing multiple projects
- Proven experience in project management methodologies
- Ability to influence and interact with senior stakeholders
- 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 extra ingredients you will bring:
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and multitask
- Experience in commercialisation projects would be beneficial to the role
- Manufacturing plant or productivity experience would be beneficial to the role
Education / Certifications:
- Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent
- Project management certification
Travel Requirements:
- Occasional travel to plants or other BU offices
Work schedule:
- Standard Business Hours
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
Mondelēz International's Sub Saharan Africa Business Unit is made up of three key focus areas namely Southern Africa, West Africa and the Rest of Africa Markets. The Business Unit is home to approximately 1000 Makers and Bakers who strive to bring only the best quality and loved brands to our consumers. Mondelēz International in Sub Saharan Africa is proud to house global legacy brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk, Oreo, Halls and Bournvita, together with local jewels such as Cadbury LunchBar, Chappies, TomTom and Dentyne. The Business Unit's Markets have consistently been awarded Top Employer certification, and has been recognised as a Top Employer in Africa.
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.
Job Type
Regular
Project and Program Management
Business Capability
Top Skills
What We Do
Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 90,000 individuals around the world.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
Our Brands
We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum.
Our People
Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are.
Our Strategies
We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands, and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities:
• Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth
• Execution: drive operational excellence
• Culture: build a winning growth culture
Why Work With Us
We offer passionate, energetic and curious people a huge choice of careers in our fun, fast-paced, global business. We operate in four regions: Asia, Middle East & Africa; Europe; Latin America; and North America. And in over 80 countries our people are united in a common purpose to empower people to snack right.
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