Senior Project Commercialization Manager

Job Description
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

Position Purpose
Direct the product change process in a business category for Nordic & Special Business. This individual interfaces extensively Consumer Marketing, Customer Development, Finance, Technology, Quality, and all functions within Supply Chain (Procurement, Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics), to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters.
Knowledge (education, qualifications, training)

• Extensive change / project management knowledge.
• Working knowledge of the supply chain and basic supply chain principles.
• Understanding of internal functional roles.
• Bachelor's degree preferred (engineering, accounting/finance, marketing, logistics, engineering, quality, food science, operations)
• Fluent spanish

Skills (Leadership Competencies)

• Motivating Others
• Peer Relationships
• Customer Focus
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Drive for Results
• Informing
• Planning
• Time Management
• Comfort Around Higher Management

Experience

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a consumer products environment, typically with 2 years' experience of project management/ supply chain / production / procurement / R&D.

Principal Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of projects to meet the revenue, volume, growth, productivity and quality goals and priorities within a category.
• Facilitate the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks, and resource (people and cost) requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional groups; develop methods to monitor project progress and provide corrective action if necessary.
• Ensure that project scopes and timing take into consideration minimizing waste (raw, pack and finished goods write-offs) and reducing complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, managing sku proliferation) to the business system.
• Ensure that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning (for relevant projects) takes place, is communicated and agreed upon by all stakeholders and is acted on if necessary to keep the project on track or to accelerate the project if the business need exists.
• Enable best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed out and key learning's are documented.
• Initiate the finished good Masterdata setup and communicate completed information to all stakeholders so all information systems can be properly set up to produce, ship, sell and invoice our products.
• Manage the traded unit (non-regulated) graphic process ensuring compliance with all company policies and communicate completed information to all stakeholders.
• Set clear priorities for self and team members to deliver expected results
• Provide input on the strategic direction and shows sufficent level of bussiness accumen to be a strong business partner in main approval projects meetings at local and central level
• Develops adequate exposure and builds (local and central) network.

Operating Environment

• Primary customer is the project owner of the project depends on project type (Brand Managers, Sales, Procurement, R&D, manufacturing, etc)
• Management of projects within a category requires extensive influence across many functions. Strong relationships and effective partnerships with internal functions, e.g. Marketing, Sales, Finance, Global Supply Chain (Customer Service and Logistics, Manufacturing and Procurement), Package & Brand Design, RD&Q and Quality, are instrumental to success.

Dimensions

• Change management support within a single category.
• Coordinate project activities for a moderate number of stakeholders.

Direct reports - None
The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland .
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make, but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like Cadbury, Milka and Alpen Gold chocolates, Oreo, belVita, LU and Tuc biscuits get safely into our customers hands-and mouths. Great people and great brands. That's who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
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
Project and Program Management
Business Capability