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.
The Associate Customer Chef will support culinary innovation and ingredient work with third-party manufactures for finished ready to eat dessert/treat executions with both foodservice Quick-service Restaurant (QSR) customers and foodservice c-store retailers featuring Mondelēz core brands. The individual will also provide culinary R&D innovation support with licensed partners for retail branded & co-branded products for sale in retail channels generating both ingredient sales and royalties.
How you will contribute
You will:

• Provide culinarian with experience in both QSR and FSR menu strategy and innovation
• Develop strong working relationships with MDLZ Foodservice top strategic customers through rapport building, earning trust, and being the customer's "go to" culinary contact for menu categories specific to where MDLZ brands compete
• Bring a JVC mindset to their work by acquiring and demonstrating deep knowledge of customer operations, menus, initiatives, goals, digital/social platforms, and growth objectives. Working primarily with QSR customer culinary/menu innovation R&D executives and third-party ingredient customer R&D teams
• Attend conferences and provide operational support for product sampling
• Networking with customers key partner chefs, building strong alliances, exploring new shard growth opportunities
• Subject matter expert relative to MDLZ products, basic formulas, features and benefits
• Collaborate and work with other MDLZ foodservice team members and cross-functional teams in a productive, professional, and thoughtful way
• Act as the culinary expert/lead to help gain internal Mondelez brand and RD approvals for finished desserts made by third party-manufacturers

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

• Strong collaborating abilities, working on a variety of projects, including menu concept development, product development, customer work sessions, and other company and customer related projects as needed
• Comfortable and capable of working with product testing, consumer research and flavor insights
• Conducting professional and engaging presentations with confidence
• Ensuring seamless execution through advance planning, organization, thorough communication, and appropriate time management practices

Requirements

• Culinary Degree with a minimum of 5 years + industry experience
• Proven experience working with third party-manufactures and QSR partners to develop best-in-class finished desserts that represent our brands and flavor equities
• Knowledge on current and future finished desserts trends and insights
• Established culinary relationships with existing OSR customers and third party-manufacturers and potential strategic partners counterparts
• Ability to bring problem solving & end to end thinking
• Excellent working knowledge of all aspects of food manufacturing business including Operations, Purchasing, Quality Control, R&D, Packaging
• Strong concise communicator
• Candidate should possess an innovative nature and a sense of urgency with respect to project management and completion
• Candidate should be comfortable when working with the highest levels of corporate management and display excellent interpersonal skills in all interactions
• New thinker, innovator who is not afraid to take risks
• Ability to travel up to 40-50%
• Location for the position is in either New Jersey or Atlanta, GA area

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.
Job Type
Regular
Customer Support
Administration Services