Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
We are seeking a dynamic, creatively-driven Sr. Manager, Portfolio Marketing Strategy & Creative to lead the development and execution of our portfolio marketing vision across categories and brands. This is a high-impact individual contributor role that operates at the intersection of brand strategy, creative excellence, and partnership innovation. The ideal candidate is a seasoned brand marketer with a deep creative background who thrives in shaping how a portfolio of iconic brands shows up cohesively, boldly, and with purpose. in-store, online, digitally and socially for our passionate and wide-ranging customers and consumers.
This role reports to the Sr. Director, Partnerships and partners/influences cross-functionally with categories, R&D, sales, and external agency teams.
Who You Are
You are a creative strategist at heart - someone who believes that great marketing starts with a great idea and that a portfolio of brands, when orchestrated with intention, is greater than the sum of its parts. You bring equal parts left-brain rigor and right-brain imagination. You've built things from scratch, led agencies to do their best work, and know how to sell a vision to a room full of executives. You're energized by the challenge of making multiple brands sing in harmony without losing what makes each one unique. You are ready to step into a Director-level environment and make an outsized impact for all stakeholders you manage daily.
What you will bring
Portfolio Marketing Strategy
- Define and own the overarching portfolio marketing strategy that connects and elevates our family of brands across categories, channels, and consumer touchpoints
- Develop strategic frameworks that articulate how brands within the portfolio complement, reinforce, and amplify one another in market
- Identify white-space opportunities for cross-brand storytelling, co-marketing moments, and portfolio-level campaigns that drive enterprise value
- Translate business objectives into clear, compelling creative briefs and marketing plans that ladder up to portfolio-level goals as well as strong data, engagement and commercial KPI's.
- Serve as the strategic voice that ensures brand consistency while championing creative risk-taking across the portfolio, whilst leveraging some of the biggest partnerships in the industry.
- Sales & Customer Alignment key with Shopper Marketing, Category Development, and omni-channel as well as loyalty & CRM Integration
Creative Leadership & Excellence
- Elevate the creative standard across all portfolio marketing initiatives - from concept through execution
- Build and maintain a best-in-class creative toolkit including brand guidelines, asset libraries, templates, and playbooks that empower teams to produce exceptional work at scale
- Lead concept creation and creative ideation for portfolio-level campaigns, bringing big ideas from napkin sketch to market
- Own the agency ecosystem - from selection and onboarding to ongoing management and performance evaluation of creative, media, and production partners
- Champion a culture of creative excellence, pushing teams and partners to deliver breakthrough work that moves consumers and drives brand love
- Stay ahead of cultural trends, design movements, and emerging creative formats to keep our brands at the forefront of consumer attention
Partnerships Strategy & Execution
- Own the partnerships strategy across the portfolio, identifying and cultivating relationships with strategic partners that amplify brand reach, relevance, and resonance
- Lead large-scale contractor and partner negotiations, ensuring favorable terms while building long-term, mutually beneficial relationships
- Evaluate partnership opportunities through both a creative and commercial lens - ensuring every collaboration enhances brand equity and delivers measurable ROI
- Manage partnership budgets and oversee financial planning for all contracted work, ensuring fiscal responsibility without compromising creative ambition
Leadership & Influence
- Influence and align senior leadership on portfolio marketing priorities, investment decisions, and creative direction
- Develop and manage annual and quarterly budget forecasts, partnering with Finance to ensure alignment with broader business planning
- Operate as a near-Director-level leader - demonstrating executive presence, strategic judgment, and the ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence
Qualifications
- 8-12 years of experience in brand marketing, creative strategy, or portfolio/integrated marketing within CPG or a related consumer-facing industry
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA or advanced degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field preferred
- Proven creative background - whether from agency-side, in-house brand, or a hybrid path - with a portfolio of work that demonstrates bold, consumer-centric thinking
- Deep experience developing and executing portfolio or multi-brand marketing strategies
- Track record of leading agency relationships, including selection, briefing, and performance management
- Experience managing large budgets ($5M+) and negotiating complex contracts with agencies, media partners, and/or brand collaborators
- Strong strategic thinking paired with hands-on creative instincts - equally comfortable in a boardroom presentation and a brainstorm session
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, both written and verbal
- Experience in a matrixed CPG organization with multiple brands and categories
- Background in creative direction, art direction, or copywriting earlier in career
- Familiarity with shopper marketing, retail media, or omnichannel activation
- Experience building creative toolkits, brand systems, or design-led frameworks from the ground up
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.
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Job Type
Regular
Brand & Portfolio Management
Marketing
Skills Required
- 8-12 years of experience in brand marketing, creative strategy, or portfolio/integrated marketing within CPG or a related consumer-facing industry
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA or advanced degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field
- Proven creative background from an agency, in-house brand, or hybrid environment, with a portfolio demonstrating bold, consumer-centric thinking
- Deep experience developing and executing portfolio or multi-brand marketing strategies
- Experience leading agency relationships, including selection, briefing, and performance management
- Experience managing budgets of $5 million or more and negotiating complex contracts with agencies, media partners, or brand collaborators
- Strong strategic thinking paired with hands-on creative instincts
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and storytelling skills
- Experience in a matrixed CPG organization with multiple brands and categories
- Background in creative direction, art direction, or copywriting earlier in career
- Familiarity with shopper marketing, retail media, or omnichannel activation
- Experience building creative toolkits, brand systems, or design-led frameworks from the ground up
Mondelēz International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — 401(k) offerings are portrayed as robust, with a competitive employer match and, for some groups, an additional base company contribution. Perceptions of the plan are favorable, and defined-contribution coverage spans eligible salaried, non-union, and union employees.
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. policies include 10 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for primary and secondary caregivers, plus adoption and surrogacy assistance. Arrangements differ by country and union contract, but the leave program is repeatedly noted as a strong point.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as generous, with vacation/PTO plus holidays, sick leave, bereavement, and volunteer time. This breadth is frequently called out as a core strength of the package.
Mondelēz International Insights
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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