Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project's readiness to go live.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed
- Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings
- Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization
- Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
- Own the relationship with the external vendors including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Proven experience in project management methodology
- Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
- Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
- Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery
- Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions
- Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
- Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
- Strong conceptual and analytic skills - enjoys problem solving
More about this role
Role Mission
The VRO (Value Realization Office) Lead is responsible for ensuring that all outcomes, KPIs, and business readiness indicators are effectively tracked, governed, and achieved throughout the Cutover and Hypercare phases. This role acts as the main interface between Cutover Execution, PMO, and Business Leaders, ensuring that operational stability and value realization are achieved after go-live.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, monitor, and report all go-live readiness and post-go-live performance indicators (KPIs, SLAs, stabilization targets).
- Coordinate the daily cadence of the VRO Command Center, consolidating metrics from technical, process, and operational streams.
- Partner with Cutover and PMO Leads to ensure alignment between execution milestones, risk tracking, and value outcomes.
- Support the definition of Go/No-Go criteria, focusing on business continuity, data integrity, and system performance.
- Lead the Hypercare performance reviews, translating technical results into business impact narratives for executive reporting.
- Ensure the tracking of issue resolution, root cause analysis, and transition to BAU teams once stability criteria are met.
- Consolidate learnings and create Post-Mortem and Value Realization reports highlighting KPIs achieved, lessons learned, and improvement opportunities.
- Drive continuous improvement culture through visual management dashboards, KPI heatmaps, and cross-functional syncs.
Key Deliverables
- VRO Governance Framework and Cadence Calendar
- Go/No-Go Readiness Dashboard
- Hypercare Daily Dashboard (technical + business KPIs)
- Value Realization Report and Post-Mortem Summary
- KPI Heatmap and Trend Analysis
- Executive Summary Deck for Steering Committee
Profile and Core Competencies
- Strong analytical and storytelling skills - able to translate complex data into executive insights.
- Solid experience in Project Management, Hypercare governance, or Business Performance Monitoring.
- Advanced Excel/Power BI/Think-Cell skills for KPI tracking and visualization.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA or ERP transformation programs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across multiple functions (IT, Finance, Logistics, Manufacturing).
- Resilience, structured thinking, and agility to operate under tight timelines and cross-functional environments.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broad range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
We have a rich portfolio of strong brands globally and locally including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the top position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy and the second top position in gum.
Our 80,000 makers and bakers are located in more than 80 countries and we sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. Our people are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen-and happen fast.
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
Temporary (Fixed Term)
Project and Program Management
Business Capability
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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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