Lead workforce planning initiatives by leveraging data analysis, AI, and automation; engage with executives to develop strategic insights and optimize workforce effectiveness through labor market analysis and technology integration.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
Hybrid out of our Chicago, IL office
The strategic workforce planning lead looks at a holistic view of factors that help Mondelez plan for a skills-based workforce for the future. You will help our business leaders understand workforce dynamics, benchmark against competitors, and provide evidence based insights for them to make data-driven decisions about talent acquisition, retention and overall business strategy. You will also support the annual operational headcount planning cycle alongside Finance and Business Services.
As we face a changing labor market landscape with geographical considerations, socio-economic conditions, workforce supply shortages with changing worker demographics, and AI agents fast becoming a way of automating processes and tasks, this role pulls together external and internal factors in forecasting skills-based future workforce demand at Mondelez. This role provides insights that support integrating technology, process and business strategy into one unified approach to strategic workforce planning.
In this role, you will analyze what-if scenarios of supply vs demand in an annual operational headcount planning, to a multi-year time horizon for Mondelez to be future-ready. You will support our organization in analytics research for workforce optimization. You will also focus on developing and implementing strategic workforce plans that consider both human capital and digital/AI solutions, ensuring alignment with our overall business objectives.
Responsibilities:
Core Skills:
Experience:
Education:
The base salary range for this position is $137,300 to $188,825; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
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.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Analytics & Modelling
Analytics & Data Science
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
Hybrid out of our Chicago, IL office
The strategic workforce planning lead looks at a holistic view of factors that help Mondelez plan for a skills-based workforce for the future. You will help our business leaders understand workforce dynamics, benchmark against competitors, and provide evidence based insights for them to make data-driven decisions about talent acquisition, retention and overall business strategy. You will also support the annual operational headcount planning cycle alongside Finance and Business Services.
As we face a changing labor market landscape with geographical considerations, socio-economic conditions, workforce supply shortages with changing worker demographics, and AI agents fast becoming a way of automating processes and tasks, this role pulls together external and internal factors in forecasting skills-based future workforce demand at Mondelez. This role provides insights that support integrating technology, process and business strategy into one unified approach to strategic workforce planning.
In this role, you will analyze what-if scenarios of supply vs demand in an annual operational headcount planning, to a multi-year time horizon for Mondelez to be future-ready. You will support our organization in analytics research for workforce optimization. You will also focus on developing and implementing strategic workforce plans that consider both human capital and digital/AI solutions, ensuring alignment with our overall business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Workforce Planning: Collaborate with data scientists, AI specialists, and analysts to develop and implement data-driven strategic workforce plans. Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and other technologies to optimize workforce effectiveness in alignment with organizational goals. Identify talent gaps based on required skills and determine whether to build, buy, borrow, or "bot" (using AI agents) to attain them.
- Labor Market Analysis: Research external, publicly available sources in countries where workforce is represented, such as government labor data, online professional profiles, job postings, employee reviews, layoff patterns to identify trends, provide insights into labor market conditions, job postings, employee sentiments, and competitor trends.
- Workforce Opportunity Planning: Partner with our Talent and Total Rewards CoEs, conduct analysis of the organization's job taxonomy to identify functions and roles suitable for Generative AI (Gen AI) enhancements, incorporating analysis of skills and automation opportunities in Mondelez's business processes. Build what-if scenarios to prepare for future demand and supply challenges.
- Workday Adaptive: Support annual operational headcount planning process partnering with own team, Business Services, Finance and HR functions. Research future enhancements Workday Adaptive Roadmaps for Skills based Strategic Workforce Planning. Recommend future roadmap capabilities in Workday Adaptive, influence on securing executive support for sponsorship in deployment and execution. Partner with Business Services to develop change management plans to communicate, train and deploy new tools and features to the HR community.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with senior executives and other stakeholders to provide insights supporting strategic workforce plans. Facilitate workforce planning enablement workshops with senior level audiences to identify critical roles, discuss insights, persuade for sponsorship and prioritization in action planning.
Core Skills:
- Strong leadership skills, with experience managing analytics engagements and delivering insights to executive audiences.
- Ability to influence and persuade senior executives with workshop facilitation, consulting and data storytelling skills.
- Experience in conducting labor market research using publicly available labor data, job postings, and workforce research related publications.
- Strong data analysis and modeling skills, with deep understanding of statistical forecasting methods.
- Nimble learning with workforce planning technologies such as Workday Adaptive, Visier Planning, Anaplan.
- Good understanding of AI and automation technologies impacting workforce strategy, including Generative AI (Gen AI) and AI agents.
- Ability to analyze existing job architectures and role profiles.
- Critical thinking, problem solving, and solid analytical skills.
- Ability to balance stakeholders, collaborating with cross-functional teams such as HR, Finance, Business Services and Enterprise Strategy.
- Strategic thinking and the ability to see the big picture.
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in People Analytics and/or Strategic Workforce Planning, Enterprise Strategy, HR, or related field.
- Experience with demand vs supply workforce analysis, labor market research, scenario planning, and statistical forecasting methods.
- Experience with AI and automation projects, applications of AI agents to work processes are a plus.
- Familiarity with skills-based workforce planning is a plus.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in a Finance or STEM field with specialization in any of the following: Financial Analytics, Financial Mathematics & Statistics, Forecasting Methods, Applied Mathematics, Bio Sciences, Physics, Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning/AI.
The base salary range for this position is $137,300 to $188,825; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
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.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Analytics & Modelling
Analytics & Data Science
Top Skills
Anaplan
Generative Ai
Visier Planning
Workday Adaptive
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