Project Manager, Product Change

Posted 7 Days Ago
Warsaw, Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Hybrid
Senior level
Big Data • Food • Hardware • Machine Learning • Retail • Automation • Manufacturing
We're a global snacking company empowering people to snack right.
The Role
The Project Manager, Product Change is responsible for managing projects that focus on changes to key products, overseeing aspects like product innovation and quality improvement. Key tasks include project planning, team management, monitoring progress, risk assessment, and ensuring communication with stakeholders. The role demands strong organizational skills, facilitation abilities, and a solid understanding of supply chain principles.
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Job Description
The Project Manager, Product Change role in Mondelēz organizational structure is responsible for managing projects focused on business changes in our key iconic products - for example product innovation, pack change, quality improvement, limited edition - from project initiation through to implementation & launch.
This role interfaces extensively with Consumer Marketing, Customer Development / Business Planning, Finance, RD&Q, Quality, Legal, Consumer Insights and all functions within Global Supply Chain (Procurement, Artwork, Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics), to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters.
Responsibilities:

  • Project planning: facilitation of the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks and resource (people and cost) requirements;
  • Cross-functional project team management; identifying and engaging cross functional representatives forming a team to deliver the project brief
  • Monitoring project progress and provide corrective action if necessary.
  • Maintaining project documentation and reporting to communicate clear status of projects, key timings, issues & risks
  • Maintaining quality communication with all functions engaged in the project, including raising profile of projects through representation of projects at senior forums
  • Ensuring that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning takes place - to keep the project on track, accelerate or stop the project if the business need exists
  • Ensuring that project scopes and timing take into consideration minimizing waste (raw, pack write-offs) and unwanted complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, SKU proliferation) to the business system
  • Enabling best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed and key learning's are documented and preparing project evaluations when required
  • Initiation of finished goods Master data setup and communicate completed information to all stakeholders so all systems can be properly set up to produce, ship, sell and invoice our products.
  • Ensuring correct Product Labeling Specifications (PLS) handling, Artwork process coordination
    and Co packing handling.


Qualifications:

  • Solid Project Management experience and Project Management process knowledge, preferably in New Product Launches or Product Change
  • Working knowledge of the supply chain and basic supply chain principles an advantage
  • Qualifications - degree level or equivalent, Project Management qualification an advantage
  • FMCG experience a benefit
  • Ability to demonstrate strong meetings management, advanced facilitation and communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders
  • Strong presentation skills to influence at a senior level
  • Strong initiative to problem solving and framing alternative solutions and driving delivery
  • Process oriented - ability to monitor, measure, report
  • High level of experience with computer applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, etc.
  • Initial team management experience a plus


The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland .
Business Unit Summary
At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make, but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like Cadbury, Milka and Alpen Gold chocolates, Oreo, belVita, LU and Tuc biscuits get safely into our customers hands-and mouths. Great people and great brands. That's who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
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

The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
90,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
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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