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:
1. Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
2. Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed
3. Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings
4. Track budget management, resource planning and utilization
5. Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
6. Proven experience in project management methodology
7. Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
8. Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
9. Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery
10. Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions
11. Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
12. Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
13. Strong conceptual and analytic skills – enjoys problem solving
More about this role
We are seeking a dynamic Global Program Manager to be part of the Global Engineering PMO to lead the rollout of key enterprise digital programs(Digital Smart Factory)including Internet of Things (IoT), Capital Expenses and Line Design applications
You will coordinate cross-functional global teams and external partners to deliver robust, scalable solutions and frameworks, and you will enable and support regions and sites to implement these solutions consistently and effectively.
1. Global Program Integration & Alignment:
14. Strategic Coordination: Ensuring a cohesive and unified approach across all regions and functions within the Global governance framework.
15. Integrate diverse inputs from Global Quality, Supply Chain, and MDS teams to develop andmaintaincoherent deployment strategies for key enterprise digital programs.
16. Consistency & Clarity: Drive consistent interpretation and application of critical program elements across all assigned digital programs, including:
17. Defined scope expectations
18. Deployment milestones
19. Readiness criteria
20. Effective change management strategies
2. Regional Coordination & Visibility:
21. Support regions and sites during pilot anddeploymentphases through guidance, escalation management, and best-practice sharing
22. Establish andmaintaina single,consolidated, and transparent view of deployment status for key enterprise digital programs) across all regions.
23. Collaboration with Regional Leads: Coordinate closely with regional leads to:
24. Consolidateregional deployment plans for all assigned digital programs into a comprehensive master program roadmap.
25. Track progressagainst agreed-upon milestones.
26. Proactivelyidentifyand address potential risks, dependencies, and misalignments across programs.
3. Program Governance & Oversight:
27. Support and enhance the effective operation of existing digital program governance forums.
28. Prepare and present regular status updates, KPIs, and decision materials to the GlobalDigitalleadership, sponsors, and steering committees
29. Decision & Action Tracking: Ensure all critical decisions, actions, and escalations are clearly documented, communicated, and systematically followed up to closure across all programs.
30. Capture lessons learned from pilots and early deployments, update global standards and templates, and promote reuse and scalability.
4. Risk & Dependency Management:
31. Identifyand analyze potential cross-regional and cross-functional risks that couldimpactthe successful deployment of assigned digital programs
32. Dependency Surfacing: Surface and manage critical dependencies related to factors such as:
33. Vendor capacity
34. Regional resource constraints
35. Timely Escalation: Facilitatethetimelyand effective escalation of critical issues and risks to theappropriate governancelevels, ensuring resolution and mitigation strategies are in place for all digital programs.
Education / Certifications:
36. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or relatedfield.
37. Project managementcertificationsuch as PMP®,PgMP®, or PMI-ACP®isa strong advantage.
Job specific requirements:
38. Experience: Proven experience (10+ years) in program management, project management, desirable within digital transformation, engineering, or technology rollouts
39. Demonstrated success working in or with a PMO, managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.
40. Experience coordinating with regional/site teams who own localexecution, andworking with external vendors/integrators.
41. Familiarity with both predictive and agile/hybrid delivery approaches
42. Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of various enterprise digital initiatives and their impact on manufacturing or supply chain processes.
43. Stakeholder Management: Ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across various functions and geographies, influencing without direct authority.
44. Analytical Skills: Structured, analytical, and data-driven mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
45. Comfortable working in a matrix organization and managing virtual/global teams.
46. Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business language and vice versa.
47. Tools: Proficiencyin program management software and collaboration tools.
Travel requirements:
48. 20%+ travel may be required.
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $140,300 to $192,940; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. 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, 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.
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