Associate Director Meu Chocolate R&d - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Mondelēz International

Mondelēz International

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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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 senior member of the management team, you ensure that technical, scientific and business programs are successfully delivered and that resources are effectively managed.

You regularly interact with senior-level clients and the technical and scientific community.

How you will contribute

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

Ensuring that research programs drive commercial outcomes, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods environment
Influencing business strategy through critical thinking and technical thought leadership
Working collaboratively across functions, geographies and with internal and external partners to land the agenda
Coaching and mentoring others
Creating a culture of technical curiosity and collaboration

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

MEU Chocolate Tablet Leader: 45% of total chocolate MEU Business with NR 2.5B$ Business with growth up to >3B$ in 2030

Accountable for
delivering and building R&D technical programs to achieve growth (Innovation, renovation, capacity expansion, productivity), rooted in consumer
centricity, technical rigor and driving innovation excellence.

Develop
Tablet strategy and ensure that technical, scientific, and business programs are successfully delivered and that resources are effectively managed.

You regularly partner with senior level clients and stakeholders, internally and externally and across the enterprise from Commercial to Supply Chain, as well as within the technical and scientific community.

Build a balanced project portfolio to deliver against financial & nutritional/sustainable targets, short term and long term and manage resources across the category teams to deliver the BU/CUs priorities.

Identify & Develop Beyond the Core Innovations for long term breakthrough impact.

Milka GAT R&D Co lead. Milka brand global Net Revenue is $3BR&D support at the Milka GAT Growth Acceleration team.

Partner with Milka Brand Lead to build the Global Milka Growth Strategy and the right shape of the Innovation Project Portfolio across product, packaging & Mindful Snacking topics.

Accountable for maintaining and deploying the Product Quality Strategy + Core Renovation of MILKA

How will you contribute:

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You lead the development of product solutions and bundles to sustain competitive advantage, drive growth,incrementality, profit contribution and for our Chocolate Tablet and Milka brands and co-create & deliver the innovation pipeline for Mondelez Europe.
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You champion innovation excellence and ensure that all programs meet consumer need states and connect with our overarching strategy.

In addition,
you will build and shape a balanced project portfolio for the short, medium and long term, keeping in mind the goal to create the desired consumer experience, effectively managing human and financial targets.

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As a people leader, you will grow a diverse talent base that meets our business needs and helps build the pool of R&D talent and develop capabilities across MEU
.

What extra ingredients you will bring:
As desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

Influencing business strategy through critical thinking, prioritization and technical thought leadership using to educate business stakeholders about technical risks, ensuring mitigation plans, clear communication and understanding to allow for effective cross-functional decision making.

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Ensure that research and development programs drive commercial outcomes (Growth, incrementality, and contribution to profit and sustainable agenda), in a fast-moving consumer goods environment

Foster a
culture of consumer centricity, ensuring that all programs address real and tangible consumer need states and opportunities and that we deliver these programs with excellence

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Lead and deliver innovation programs with excellence; identifying, developing, and deploying breakthrough innovation that delivers sustained growth beyond the existing portfolio

Working
collaboratively across functions, geographies and with internal and external partners to define, initiate and lead teams to successfully deliver business goals using technical rigor, consumer centricity and best practice to land the agenda

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Coaching and mentoring of others, while effectively allocating resources and prioritising workloads

Creating a culture of
technical curiosity and collaboration

What you need to know about this position:
You will be a
key contributor to the vision, strategy and ensuring excellence in operational execution & delivery of the integrated Business and Functional agenda, as: