Digital Supply Chain Engineering Director

Mondelēz International • East Hanover, NJ

9d • $142,700 - $235,455 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role develops the technical and engineering direction of digital transformation, ensuring alignment with Mondelēz International’s worldwide goals. Using broad technical and in-depth knowledge in a specialty area, the individual will identify, define, and solve complex business problems and global standards to support growth, world-class manufacturing, and productivity while ensuring the highest level of quality, safety, and environmental requirements. As a senior member of the management team, this role interacts regularly with senior-level clients, the technical and digital community, suppliers, and service providers. The Digital Lead for Supply Chain coordinates and shapes the end-to-end digital and automation agenda for global manufacturing — from strategy to execution. The role supports the development of a unified digital landscape aligned to IL6S maturity, maintains and governs a Ready-to-Scale catalogue of approved solutions, and drives the implementation of digitalization strategy globally. The role coordinates digital governance, including the 3-in-a-box ownership model, IIM for Digital methodology, data architecture standards, and a centralized AI-ready industrial data platform. It facilitates the development and proposes automation and robotics strategy, ensures TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) optimization through economies of scale and in-house deployment capabilities, and embeds digital KPIs into IL6S phase-gate progression. Working across Supply Chain, MDS, Engineering, CS&L, and Procurement, this role acts as the central coordination point for digital strategy, budget input, and decision-making — shifting the organization from fragmented, site-driven adoption to a scalable, globally governed digital engine for supply chain competitiveness. A critical dimension of the role is the deep integration of digital strategy into IL6S plant progression: ensuring that digital maturity assessments, mandatory solution minimums, and technology adoption roadmaps are directly linked to each site’s IL6S phase, accelerating loss eradication and operational excellence at every stage of the plant’s maturity journey.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of progressive experience in supply chain management, with a focus on digital transformation, automation, and technology-enabled process improvement.
• Proven track record of successfully leading digital initiatives and driving significant business impact within complex manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of supply chain processes, including procurement, production planning, inventory management, and distribution logistics.
• Understanding of Industry 4.0 concepts and experience in industrial automation and system integration projects such as MES and SCADA, OPC-UA Companion Specifications.
• Familiar with programming languages including Python, C#, C++, Java, REST, MQTT.
• Experience in using and managing GitHub/Jira/GitLab.
• Expertise in implementing and managing enterprise-wide software systems such as ERP, WMS, TMS, and advanced analytics platforms.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and deliver results within established timelines.
• Effective communication and leadership abilities, with experience in leading cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic mindset with a focus on driving innovation, fostering collaboration, and delivering value-added solutions to support business growth and competitiveness.
• Knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and emerging trends in digital technology, automation, and supply chain management.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support development and implementation of the enterprise digitalization agenda in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Drive major capital digitalization strategy and projects with senior supply-chain leaders, ensuring completion within capex estimations and defined standards.
• Collaborate closely with internal cross-functional stakeholders and support engineering teams in digitalization topics.
• Monitor progress during project development and participate in optimization efforts, using feedback learnings for global engineering teams.
• Develop and lead a digital community of practice using technical expertise.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers and ensure they use the standards and technical track for enterprise digitalization-related issues.
• Manage technical resource needs and foster people development and capability building as a people leader.
• Propose and align a comprehensive digital strategy for Supply Chain, aligning with business objectives and ensuring integration with other functions/IL6S pillars.
• Propose an aligned digital landscape matching plant maturity and needs, establishing a phased adoption roadmap tied to IL6S phase-gate progression.
• Coordinate global digital solutions governance, ensuring aligned development and deployment of digital solutions across Supply Chain.
• Align with Regional / BU digital teams, ensuring alignment between global strategy and local execution priorities and BU-specific requirements.
• Coordinate and support the identification, evaluation, and adoption of digital technologies and automation solutions, including but not limited to IoT, to improve operational efficiency, in collaboration with respective IL6S Pillar / Functional leads.
• Coordinate the global Digital Smart Factory rollout, including the IoT Platform.
• Support the adoption of IoT-enabled automation technologies that streamline supply chain operations, ensuring seamless integration with APC systems for real-time process control.
• Coordinate with regional, business units, and sites on change management during deployment.
• Own IIoT platform technical requirements and specifications to ensure growth and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including MDS, MSC, CS&L and Procurement to assess current processes, identify automation opportunities, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Own relevant automation standards and playbooks.
• Establish clear data governance for globally scaled solutions.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the adoption, effectiveness, and impact of digital initiatives.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI, machine learning, robotics, and automation technologies, conducting structured pilots and proof-of-concepts to assess applicability and readiness for global scale across manufacturing sites.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the supply chain team, encouraging creativity and experimentation to drive business growth and competitiveness.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and best practices related to data security, privacy, and intellectual property rights in all digital initiatives.
• Represent the company in industry forums, conferences, and networking events to share insights, exchange best practices, and build strategic partnerships with technology vendors and solution providers.
• Define and own the global automation and robotics strategy for Supply Chain manufacturing, including identification of high-value use cases, technology selection, business case development, and prioritization framework aligned with IL6S loss elimination roadmap.
• Ensure robotics and advanced automation — including collaborative robots (cobots), Autonomous Mobile Robots for in-plant material transport and logistics, and machine vision systems — are evaluated, piloted, and scaled in a structured, site-maturity-led manner.
• Build and maintain a Ready-to-Scale catalogue of approved digital and automation solutions — a curated, governed library of validated technologies (IoT applications, robotics, analytics tools, AI models) that sites can deploy with confidence.
• Ensure each solution in the catalogue is accompanied by deployment playbooks, TCO benchmarks, integration requirements, and minimum IL6S maturity prerequisites, enabling rapid and consistent global rollout.
• Lead governance of the 3-in-a-box model for digital and automation solution ownership, ensuring every solution in the portfolio has clearly defined accountabilities across Product Owner (Why/What), MDS (Platform), and Engineering (How).
• Drive adoption of IIM for Digital methodology to standardize solution development, validation, and scale-up across regions and business units.

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
• Within Country Relocation support available
• minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy for candidates voluntarily moving internationally

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director