Senior Project Manager - Grenade

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Birmingham, West Midlands, England, GBR
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
Leads complex global innovation, renovation, maintenance, seasonal, geographic expansion, and business-change projects from concept through launch. Manages cross-functional stakeholders across packaging, recipe development, manufacturing, regulatory, and supply chain. Establishes governance, stage-gate processes, risk management, reporting, and portfolio prioritization while ensuring delivery within scope, budget, timeline, and quality. Leads, coaches, and mentors Project Managers and supports strategic business change at Grenade.
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Job Description
Are You Ready to Make An Impact at Grenade?
Grenade is an international active nutrition and lifestyle brand, which has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010. Driven by its strong branding, distinctive products, and highly innovative approach, Grenade has made an explosive impact in the FMCG Industry! Today, Grenade's Protein Bar is the UK's best-selling, and we continue to innovate with our leading range of Shakes, and performance nutrition.
Reporting to the Head of Product, the Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in driving global business change, overseeing a broad portfolio of initiatives including innovation, renovation, maintenance, seasonal, geographic expansion, and productivity. The role is central to evolving and embedding governance in a fast-growing global business, leading a team of Project Managers, and collaborating closely with senior leaders to provide clear updates, navigate complexity, and deliver effective solutions.
Joining Grenade's high-performing team, during this exciting period of growth and brand expansion, promises to offer a unique and motivating working environment, with highly rewarding opportunities for personal and professional development.
How you will contribute
You will:
  • End-to-end project leadership: Lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through to launch, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed scope.
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management: Engage, align, and influence senior stakeholders across the business, constructively resolving conflict and driving fact-based, outcome-focused decision-making.
  • Portfolio delivery: Manage global NPD, renovation, and business change initiatives, coordinating inputs across packaging, recipe development, manufacturing, and regulatory functions.
  • Governance: Establish, embed, and maintain robust project governance frameworks, including stage-gate processes, risk management, steering committees, RAG status, and clear, actionable reporting.
  • Risk management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and dependencies, escalating issues appropriately to protect timelines, cost, and quality.
  • Continuous improvement: Champion best practice in project management, evolving tools, processes, and ways of working to support the needs of a rapidly growing global business.
  • Leadership and capability building: Lead, coach, and mentor Project Managers and cross-functional team members to build capability, consistency, and high performance.
  • Strategic alignment and prioritisation: Support portfolio prioritisation to ensure projects and resource allocation align with AC strategic priorities and operational capability.

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
  • Extensive project management experience: Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects
  • FMCG background: notably within food
  • Flexibility: deep understanding of delivering projects within a complex process, as well as experience working with a start-up approach and able to tailor ways-of-working to accommodate where necessary.
  • Supply chain exposure: hands-on experience of collaborating with an array of teams
  • Governance experience: operating at a senior level, steering groups and influencing decision-making, confidently challenging stakeholders where necessary
  • People leadership: experience in mentoring or line-managing
  • 2 x direct reports (project managers)

Relocation Support Available?
Business Unit Summary
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Our people make all the difference in our succes
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.
Excited to grow your career?
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
IF YOU REQUIRE SUPPORT TO COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION OR DURING THE INTERVIEW PROCESS, PLEASE CONTACT THE RECRUITER
Job Type
Regular
Project and Program Management
Business Capability

Skills Required

  • Extensive experience delivering complex, cross-functional projects
  • FMCG experience, notably within the food industry
  • Experience delivering projects within complex processes and adapting ways of working in a startup-style environment
  • Hands-on supply chain collaboration experience
  • Senior-level governance experience, including steering groups and stakeholder influence
  • Experience mentoring or line-managing employees
  • Ability to lead two direct-report Project Managers

Mondelēz International Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength — Company materials list medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, and optional critical illness/accident insurance among standard U.S. offerings, with wellness resources highlighted in some locations. The breadth of health programs is detailed across official and role-specific pages.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) savings plan with company match, with sources describing competitive match formulas and, for some employee groups, additional company contributions or legacy pension arrangements. These elements are positioned as part of a strong U.S. financial benefits package.
  • Parental & Family Support — The U.S. policy provides 10 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for all caregivers, plus short‑term disability time for birth mothers. Adoption and surrogacy assistance and childcare-related supports are also called out in official materials.

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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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