Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Working as part of a cross-functional team, you are recognized internally as a technical expert in an area of importance to the MSC function. You identify, define and solve complex business problems by applying your broad and in-depth technical knowledge. As an expert in your technical specialty, this leadership role requires you to interact with senior management and cross-functional teams to meet current and future strategic demands of the business.
How you will contribute
You will plan, lead, and manage complex technically focused projects while using your technical expertise to guide, direct and influence activities lead by you and others. To ensure the right solutions are developed, you will use consumer knowledge and your technical expertise to identify future opportunities and to execute programs with technical rigor. This role will require you to work with cross-functional partners develop and align resource and budget needs for projects. You will be responsible for the technical outcomes of developments related to evaluating new ingredients, formulas, recipes, and processes and understanding the impact on scale up between laboratory and production facilities. You will also be responsible for quantifying the technical risks to make recommendations and influence stakeholders. As a people leader, you will mentor and coach others to grow their technical talent.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Using your excellent technical expertise to set and deliver the I2M agenda.
- Effectively influencing category leads (e.g. Senior Directors, Vice Presidents)
- Using critical thinking and thought leadership to ensure that solutions are developed for complex issues.
- Working collaboratively in a fast-paced commercial and technical environment
- Coaching and mentoring others
What you need to know about this position:
The Technical Innovation Management (TIM) function within Mondelēz Supply Chain (MSC) is a part of a Technical Community to lead product, process and technology support. The TIM will be strongly linked to global and regional Idea to Market (I2M) agenda and deliver measurable results to each Business Unit. The TIM will deliver competitive advantage for the business by providing Technical Leadership (product formulation, packaging, manufacturing standard, specifications) to the plant teams. They will define prioritization of all assigned Bakery technical initiatives (Innovation, Focus Improvement, Process Capability, and Quality Improvement) with Bakery Leadership Team.
Education / Certifications:
- Bachelors Degree Required
Job specific requirements:
- Minimum of 12 years experience in R&D, Engineering, Process Engineering, Operations and/ or Quality Assurance.
- Strong technical background (R&D, Manufacturing, Packaging) with multi-functional experience
- Clearly understands the Commercial Business he or she will support.
- Has had leadership experience in a big scale project.
- Prior work experience in a unionized manufacturing facility is preferred.
- Ability to organize, motivate and coach employees on desired outcomes.
- Working knowledge in IIM (Early Management) and RCA (root cause analysis).
- Understands (Integrated Lean Six Sigma (IL6S) and the keys pillars (especially Autonomous Maintenance (AM), Preventative Maintenance (PM), Education & Training (E&T) and Focused Improvement (FI))
Top Skills
What We Do
Clif Bar was born on a bike. In 1990, Gary Erickson set off on a 175-mile bike ride. Exhausted and hungry, he realized he couldn’t take another bite of the energy bars he brought along. In that moment he now calls ‘the epiphany,’ he had the idea to make a better tasting energy bar.
Guided by Five Aspirations – Sustaining our People, our Business, our Brands, our Community and the Planet – Clif Bar is a family- and employee- owned company that loves food. We believe that food provides health, joy and energy to do the things we are passionate about. The food we create is good for people and the planet.
We believe that happy, healthy people create the best food. We want to help our people live the lives they want to live so we’ve created an environment where our people can grow and succeed both personally and professionally. We strive to:
• Create a company culture that inspires and supports our people in and outside work.
• Sustain our people with competitive pay and innovative benefits and holistic wellness offerings.
• Hire the right people for the right positions and support them to grow in their current and future roles.
Working at Clif Bar is a chance to make impactful changes. To your career. To your community. To the planet. And, to your life!
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