What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager, Biscuit Innovation, NA position at Mondelēz International?
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.
Working as part of a cross-functional team, the Senior Manager, Biscuit Innovation, NA within R&S will identify, define and solve complex business problems by applying your broad and in-depth technical knowledge. This 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 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:
Leading NA Biscuit Innovation to deliver beyond the core innovation. This role will create an innovation funnel to deliver on the growth ambition of the Biscuit pillars of sweet and savory biscuits while also identifying cross pillar scalable innovation.
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, we produce 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
Product development
Science & Engineering
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, the Senior Manager, Biscuit Innovation, NA within R&S will identify, define and solve complex business problems by applying your broad and in-depth technical knowledge. This 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 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 RDQ agenda
- Effectively influencing category leads
- 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 develop talent to build a high performing innovative team.
Leading NA Biscuit Innovation to deliver beyond the core innovation. This role will create an innovation funnel to deliver on the growth ambition of the Biscuit pillars of sweet and savory biscuits while also identifying cross pillar scalable innovation.
- Shape the future by collaborating with cross-functional teams to co-create brand innovation roadmaps and influence stakeholder decisions through compelling storytelling.
- Identify technical pathways, from leveraging existing assets to exploring new technologies,
- Co-create and deliver consumer-centric solutions with innovation excellence leveraging internal and external expertise while managing risk and challenges.
- BS/MS in Food Science or Science related
- 10 or more years of work experience required
- Experience in the food industry is required
- Commercialization experience is required
- Knowledge of biscuit formulation/processes is a plus
- Strong technical skills, consumer centric foundation and technical curiosity
- Collaborative leadership experienced in stakeholder management and communication
- Strong thought leadership in shaping the future
- Creative problem solving to overcome challenges and deliver innovative solutions
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; able to effectively communicate to all levels within the organization
- Ability to travel up to 10-15% of the time
- This is a full-time role based in East Hanover, NJ
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, we produce 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
Product development
Science & Engineering
Salary : $137,300 - $188,825
