Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation

Mondelez International•East Hanover, NJ

40d•Remote

About The Position

Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation is a critical role on the Win against Waste team. This role will lead governance and manage roadmap to reduce waste across NA and will partner with cross-functional teams to drive results. This position plays a key role in identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities, strengthening project and portfolio management and driving change management across NA.

Requirements

Strong project and portfolio management experience, with a deep understanding of governance structures, stage-gate processes, risk management, and cross-functional project execution.
Leading process improvements and governance initiatives that drive speed, visibility, and discipline across complex organizations.
Building strong relationships and influencing across functions and levels, including senior stakeholders and global teams.
Driving system and process adoption across multiple functions through training, consistent stakeholders' engagement and change management.
Managing performance through data - including defining KPIs, building dashboards, and generating actionable insights.
Coaching and leading teams, with a focus on building capabilities, driving accountability, and fostering continuous improvement.
Operating effectively in a fast-paced matrixed environment, with strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Comfortable influencing without authority.
Bachelor`s degree required (preferred fields: Engineering, Business, Food Science)
8+ years of experience in project management, continuous improvement, commercialization, operations, or related roles.
3+ years' experience managing direct reports.
Experience in project portfolio governance or I2M framework implementation.
People management experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

CPG experience is a plus.
PMP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead governance for End-to-End Program and partner with workstream leads to drive governance and execution of program roadmap for reducing finished goods waste, returns, fees & fines, manufacturing waste and liquidations within Mondelez Network
Ensure delivery vs AC, owning the gap analysis & actions required to change the trajectory of results
Partner with E2E Planning, CS&L, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing teams for root cause analysis, hypothesis testing, prioritization and development of pipeline
Lead analytics roadmap for waste and drive continuous improvement in Loss Intelligence
Integrate governance with other performance review processes and forums (MPR, S&OE, IBP, SLT, etc) and ensure issues are escalated in a timely manner within the IBP Process and resolutions acted upon
Build ways of working with Manufacturing, CS&L, commercial, engineering and R D to enable a Zero Waste culture and mindset
Develop and implement change management and engagement roadmap across the organization
Manage direct reports and build capabilities to enable the long term vision
Inspire, motivate and engage team members and stakeholders; support diversity and inclusion through team leadership.
Ensures strong collaboration and best practice sharing across the MSC network
Influence a culture of process discipline, continuous learning, and innovation through best practice sharing and reinforcement of Mondelez standards.