Technical Innovation Management - Technical Lead

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Chicago, IL, USA
Hybrid
97K-134K Annually
Mid level
Big Data • Food • Hardware • Machine Learning • Retail • Automation • Manufacturing
We're a global snacking company empowering people to snack right.
The Role
The role involves leading product development, coordinating projects, and influencing teams while ensuring compliance with technical and consumer requirements. Responsibilities include stakeholder management and data analysis for product insights.
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Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelez International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It with Pride.
The TIM Technical Lead will deliver competitive advantage to the business by providing Technical Leadership (product formulation, packaging, specifications) and leading/supporting technical capability knowledge transfer. It is crucial to have solid knowledge about food processing and engineering. This position requires daily interaction with manufacturing teams.
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelez International?
  • Project management skills that are action-orientated with a demonstrated ability to handle multiple, complex projects, prioritize, and manage budgets, risk and timelines.
  • Execute Alternative Lines Qualifications (ALQ), providing appropriate level of technical support and troubleshooting to execute trials & Commissioning, Qualification, and Verification (CQV) objectives and ensure proper documentation of each activity.
  • Roll out manufacturing standards process specific to capability building and training for plant colleagues.
  • Actively participate in technical readiness level (TRL/TRAM) reviews and discussions.
  • Process background with a demonstrated understanding of statistical, modeling and simulation tools.
  • Influencing the technical direction of the business to deliver benefit using organizational awareness and clear communication.
  • Ensure that foundational skills/capabilities keep pace with technological advancements.
  • You will work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with at least 75% of your activities on the plant floor.
  • Your contributions impact product quality, process performance, and cost.
  • You are trusted and viewed as subject matter expert (SME).
  • Creative resourceful solutions.
  • Collaborative spirit.
  • Positive / Can do Attitude.
  • Flexibility and agility
  • Open Communicator
  • Curious constant learner
  • Self-starter who is results oriented.

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It with Pride.
You are an internally recognized expert in process development and process engineering and identify, define, and solve complex business problems by applying your broad technical and consumer knowledge and in-depth understanding of manufacturing technology related to Mondelez products. You serve as a senior technical resource for the organization, regularly interacting with senior management.
How you will contribute:
You will support development, optimization and specification of processes that deliver consumer benefit through new products, quality improvements and cost savings opportunities. You will develop project objectives, technical approach, project plans, deliverables, and timelines to deliver solutions on time and on budget, and execute against these plans, all while providing status updates to stakeholders. As a technical leader for process development and process technologies, you will: continually evolve your business-relevant expertise; define and share technical best practices; influence technical direction for the benefit of the business and drive the technical development of people in R&D through teaching, coaching, and mentoring, and identifying future technical leaders.
What you will bring:
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge
Education / Certifications:
BS in Engineering or Food Science required.
Green belt certification.
7 years of industry experience required.
Travel requirements: >10% of the time, as needed by the business.
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $97,300 to $133,815; 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. 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.
No Relocation support available
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 Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. 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.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Product development
Science & Engineering

Skills Required

  • Leading RDQ teams
  • Handling multiple priorities
  • Identifying complex technical problems
  • Interpreting and analyzing data
  • Influencing senior-level stakeholders
  • Coaching and mentoring others

Mondelēz International Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage and wellness offerings are broad in U.S. postings, including medical, dental, vision, EAP, wellness programs, and fertility support; some roles note coverage effective on start date or soon after. One manufacturing posting cited employees paying roughly 7% of premiums, which is described as favorable versus many employers.
  • Retirement Support U.S. roles consistently reference a 401(k) with company matching (e.g., “3% on 6% invested”), and some union positions reference additional retirement or pension benefits under collective agreements. Separate salaried materials describe company contributions up to 9% with vesting after two years.
  • Parental & Family Support A published global parental‑leave standard sets minimums worldwide, including adoptive and foster parents, with U.S. materials indicating paid bonding leave for all caregivers. This signals sustained emphasis on family support across markets, with local specifics determined by role and location.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
90,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

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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