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Mondelez International

Makes cookies, chocolate, gum and candy worldwide

New Project's Specialist

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBucharest, RomaniaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least one year of previous project management work experience in a global company.
  • Project management skills and knowledge; experience in an industrial manufacturing environment is highly appreciated.
  • Computer proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong collaboration and relationship management skills.
  • Experience in commercialization, procurement, or operations in a manufacturing or supply chain environment, or a similar role.
  • Experience working in multicultural teams and environments.
  • Experience in a role with extensive multifunctional interaction or exposure.
  • Working knowledge of English and the local language.

Responsibilities

  • Execute Innovations to Market processes for the manufacturing site and coordinate, track, and communicate changes related to new and existing products, packaging, and processes.
  • Independently lead business-development projects and take responsibility for project management.
  • Work with other project team members.
  • Plan, schedule, track, and execute projects.
  • Maintain direct contact with business unit partners regarding new projects, new product development, relaunches, and promotional activities.
  • Gather relevant project information from business units and operations, including volume, timing, and capacities.
  • Prepare comments for Performance Development Review reports.
  • Prepare product cost drafts and regular updates on objectives, progress, project backlog, and impediments.
  • Deliver frequent written project updates.
  • Propose, evaluate, and implement productivity project outcomes, including benchmarking materials, manpower, organization, and quality or design.
  • Coordinate with conversion teams, local and central engineering, and other plants on productivity projects and capital investments.
  • Participate in evaluating trials and test results for new raw and packaging materials conducted by research and development.
  • Evaluate feasibility and capacity and headcount impacts, and collaborate with suppliers during development implementation.
  • Support commercialization of new products and processes with research and development, including process commissioning, sales sample preparation, production start-up meetings, and production start-up support.
  • Collaborate with research and development, quality assurance, engineering, and production.
  • Serve as the key contact for non-manufacturing functions, including marketing, research and development, and procurement.
  • Lead implementation of productivity projects focused on raw and packaging materials, including new specifications and supplier switches, within agreed time and budget.
  • Serve as the key contact for defined raw material and packaging suppliers during project implementation, including new product development, new specifications, and supplier switches.
  • Provide supplier input in cross-functional meetings, including project team meetings.
  • Organize trial execution for supplier-related raw material and packaging projects.
  • Generate productivity project ideas related to raw and packaging materials for the category pipeline.
  • Work with key stakeholders to minimize waste and scrap costs.
  • Facilitate origination cost payments.

Desired Qualifications

  • A university degree is preferred.
  • Financial and business acumen is highly appreciated.
  • A project management certification is an asset.

About the Company

Mondelez International

Makes cookies, chocolate, gum and candy worldwide

Mondelez International makes snack foods sold in grocery stores, convenience shops and online from North America and Europe to Latin America, Asia and Africa. Its brands include Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies, Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone chocolate, Trident gum and Halls cough drops. The company runs factories around the world, buys large amounts of cocoa and wheat, and ships finished snacks to retailers and distributors. It earns money by selling these branded snacks at wholesale, and it grows by adding local brands and buying regional bakeries and snack makers. Mondelez took its current name in 2012, when Kraft Foods split off its North American grocery business, and is based in Chicago.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founded
1903

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