Project Commercialization Manager

Job 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:

• Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed
• Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings
• Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization
• Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
• Own the relationship with the external vendors including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Proven experience in project management methodology
• Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
• Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
• Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery
• Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions  
• Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
• Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
• Strong conceptual and analytic skills – enjoys problem solving

JOB SCOPE

• Direct and lead the product change process in the Innovation projects for Vietnam on a selected portfolio of brands, collaborate with other PCMs to handle the projects for SEA projects including Vietnam in scope. 

• This individual interfaces extensively with local Markets and/or Consumer Marketing, Customer Development/Business Planning/Trade Activation/Sales, Finance, RD&Q, Quality, Legal, Consumer Insights, and all functions within Supply Chain (Procurement, D2P, Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics), to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters. 

• Support and sustain the development and continuous improvement of the I2M process, in order to deliver all product change projects within quality cost and time constraints.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Team leader: 

• Lead cross-functional teams in developing and implementing a broad, coordinated set of projects to meet the revenue, volume, growth, productivity and quality goals and priorities within a category.

• Set up effective relationships with peers and higher management

Project manager: 

• Is the primary contact for project feasibility checks in order to provide maximum information for upcoming projects and/or programs.

• Facilitate the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks and resource (people and cost) requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional groups; apply methods to monitor project progress and provide corrective action if necessary.

• Manage project workflows and timelines. Ensure that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning takes place for relevant projects, is communicated and agreed upon by all stakeholders

Process leader: 

• Contribute to the SEA Project Alignment Meeting (PAM) by managing correct distribution and input for project brief to pass validation gates.

• Deliver the agreed projects according to the I2M approach and Mondelēz guidelines.

• Ensure that project scopes and timing aim to minimize waste (raw, pack write-offs) and unwanted complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, SKU proliferation) to the business system.

• Enable best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed out and key learnings are documented (for relevant projects) to all relevant stakeholders and systems. 

REQUIREMENTS:

• University graduate in BA or relevant majors

• Minimum 5 years of related experience, with minimum 3 years of experience in a similar capacity in FMCG.

• Good knowledge of project and process management

• Experience in Demand/Supply Planning is prefered

• Strong leadership, negotiation and communication skills

• Fluent English (both written and spoken)

Number of Openings Available

Business Unit Summary

Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International’s Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as Oreo and belVita biscuits, Kinh Do mooncakes, Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate, Halls candy, Stride gum, Tang powdered beverage and Philadelphia cheese. We are also proud to be named a Top Employer in many of our markets.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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