Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
As a member of a cross functional team, you lead RDQ activities required to complete process design and process deployment for innovation, growth and cost optimization projects across multiple geographies with an emphasis on delivering the desired consumer experience.
How you will contribute
Working independently, you will lead technical work across multiple projects aligned with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You will also lead activities designed to generate appropriate process information using modelling and simulation, and pilot plant scale up and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. You will be involved with/lead process design and specifications, process scale-up and commissioning and will ensure the effective use of resources, including the use of external agencies. This position requires you to manage stakeholders and to influence decisions based on data analysis and interpretation of results; create and maintain accurate consumer centric process specifications; leverage connections to internal and external technical communities, and; create intellectual property that gives Mondelēz International a competitive advantage.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Process development and/or process deployment ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment
- Leading project teams and influencing cross-functional teams
- Planning and delivering on multiple priorities
- Identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
- Understanding equipment design and manufacturing processes to support process specifications
- Using technical data to influence stakeholders
- Coaching and mentoring others in a process community
- Being a constant champion for the consumer
Overview
This R&D position is based in Mexico tech center focused on leading digital capabilities for the Global BGCM category R&D team. This requires strong creative thinking skills and the ability to imagine future possibilities. The candidate will provide consumer centricity and technical leadership across BGCM R&D organization.
The candidate will demonstrate a range of skills, including ability to interpret R&D strategy, consumer, and technical insights to define problem to be solved through digital capabilities. The ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, apply technical expertise to solve complex problems and develop and share best practices with the global technical community is required for the role. The candidate will be able to leverage agile project management skills to develop project objectives and recommend action plans to implement key findings. Personal drive, organization, the ability to manage ambiguity and excellent communication skills will be the keys to success in this role.
- Define the data needs to build the modeling & simulations tools and work with an internal teams or external organizations to design & gather data required to build models.
- Plan, lead and manage modelling and simulation projects by collaborating with regional and platform teams.
- Identify and apply appropriate digital capabilities to design, build, test and deliver models or alternatively, manage delivery through an external partner.
- Work closely with engineers and scientists to define the complex technical challenges to be solved leveraging digital capabilities and collaborate with digital CoE team to execute the solutions.
- Validate models and democratize it to the R&D teams to ensure learning is embedded into the business quickly to speed up innovation and product optimization.
- Write best-practice documentation from learnings discovered. Because this is a rapidly changing field, you will research and keep up with developments in relevant modelling and simulation techniques.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
- Using your excellent technical expertise to lead the setting and delivery of the digital projects
- Working collaboratively internally and externally in a fast-paced, rapidly changing commercial and technical environment
- Communicating complex problems simply to non-technical audiences with business-relevant context
- Problem solving, dealing with ambiguity, standing alone, presentation skills, listening, written communication.
- Expertise in product & Process development and/or deployment ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment
- Leading project teams and influencing cross-functional teams.
- Planning and delivering on multiple priorities.
- Identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
- Using technical data to influence stakeholders.
- Coaching and mentoring others in a process community
- Being a constant champion for the consumer
Qualifications & Requisite skills include:
- B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering or equivalent
- 5-8 years of experience in a technical R&D role
- Experience working with CPG industries is preferred.
- Knowledge and experience in advanced statistical techniques and concepts including, regression, distribution properties, statistical testing, etc.
- Data visualization software such as Power BI, Tableu, Quickbase etc
- Strong communication skills, ability to influence decision makers, build relationships and drive to results.
- Strong project planning & management skills
- Ability to synthesize data from a variety of sources to solve complex problems.
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
Regular
Process Development & Engineering
Science & Engineering
