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.
In this leadership role, you serve as a senior technical resource for the organization, regularly interacting with other senior managers. You are an internally recognized expert in packaging development and packaging engineering. In this role, you identify, define and solve complex business problems by applying broad technical and consumer knowledge as well as an in-depth understanding of packaging technologies related to Mondelēz products.
How you will contribute
You will lead packaging projects or teams to design, develop, optimize and specify materials that deliver consumer benefit through new products, quality improvements and cost-savings opportunities. To do so, you apply industry-leading technologies and tools and leverage supplier relationships while effectively managing intellectual property rights. To excel in this position, you will deliver solutions on time and on budget using project management methodologies and providing status updates to stakeholders. You will also provide technical leadership for packaging development and packaging technologies by: continually updating your business-relevant expertise; driving the technical development of people by teaching, coaching, mentoring and identifying future technical leaders; defining and sharing technical best practices, and; influencing the technical direction of the business.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Executing bench-top, pilot-scale and plant-scale packaging development and engineering activities and commercialization
• Project management that is action orientated with the demonstrated ability to handle multiple, complex projects, prioritize, and manage budgets, risk and timelines
• Manufacturing operations
• Thinking and working globally, with a strong curiosity to look outside for new ideas and solutions
• Packaging and demonstrating an understanding of statistical, modeling and simulation tools
• Leading technical teams and talent to deliver innovations and renovations
• Influencing the technical direction of the business to deliver benefit using organizational awareness and clear communication

More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
This position is for a Group Leader in the North America Packaging Development Nourish and Jewels Group
What extra ingredients you will bring:

• The candidate will lead a commercialization Group for the Nourish & Jewel portfolio and be the project lead for significant Packaging Development Initiatives in support of key NA Regional productivity and sustainability platforms.
• Reporting into this role are Junior Engineers commercializing programs for the Nourish Business.
• As the project lead, you will be accountable for delivering programs from concept to commercialization.

This role will interact with the following:

• R&D North America Region Packaging Team
• R&D Category peers and leads. Local & Global
• NA Nourish and Jewels Brand leaders
• ISC peers and leads for PCM, BD and External manufacturing
• Procurement platforms Leaders. (Flexible, Carton & Corrugate and Rigids)
• Key packaging material suppliers
• Internal Plants and External manufacturing plants

Education / Certifications:
B.S or M.S. Packaging or Technical degree (Mechanical, Industrial Chemical or Food Engineering.)
Job specific requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in packaging development
• Leadership experience required
• Strong technical foundation and a high level of technical curiosity
• Demonstrated ability to work with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; able to effectively communicate to all levels within the organization.
• Use of software including Word, Excel, and Minitab
• Ability to influence others and get results through working with a diverse team
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage complexity
• Executional excellence, personal leadership, time management and problem-solving competencies
• Commercialization in biscuit or similar environment
• Strong demonstration of living the values in leading by example.
• People Coaching and Development

Travel requirements:
25%
Work schedule:
This role is located in East Hanover, NJ.
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
Packaging Development & Engineering
Science & Engineering