Manager, Packaging Development

**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.**

You ensure that technical, scientific and business programs are completed on time and on budget. In addition, you manage the talent in your assigned area and jointly set the direction for your region and the associated business units. As a member of the management team, you interact with all levels of clients and technology organizations.

**How you will contribute**

In this role, you define and lead the packaging development plan in your region and its associated business units. This includes leading innovation, quality improvement, brand maintenance and technical services programs. You will use your area’s strategy and translate it into technical plans, platforms, and programs and deliver on associated business budget targets and plans. You will offer consumer insights to provide input to programs and to help define a technical strategy. You are the single point of contact for packaging on the regional team and prioritize packaging resources to develop and execute global and regional innovation and renovation programs. As a people leader, you will coach employees and develop them to build the talent pipeline. You will also ensure there is a robust intellectual property strategy in place, manage compliance to Mondelēz-relevant policies and government regulations. As a member of the global packaging leadership team, you will also develop the technical program strategy.

**What you will bring**

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

- Extensive experience in R&D packaging or a relevant function with a successful track record of people and project management
- Leading multi-functional and multi-cultural teams
- Leveraging internal and external resources and working in a highly matrixed environment
- Formulating strategy, planning, problem solving, project management while operating in a dynamic and outcome-oriented environment

**Additional job requirements**:

- English: fluent business level.
- Solid experience as People Manager.
- Previous experience and solid knowledge in the Packaging function.

This role is based in our R&D Center (Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico) and face-to-face activity will be required as part of our hybrid model.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez México has been in the country since 1927 and currently employs 6,000 wonderful people. Our diverse portfolio includes iconic and mouth-watering global brands such as _Trident_, _Oreo_, _Philadelphia_, and local jewels like _Clorets_ and _Bubbaloo_. We are leaders in the making of cream cheese, powdered beverages and confections—in fact, we make seven out of every 10 chewing gums consumed by Mexicans. Our growth is supported by our cutting-edge manufacturing facilities, such as our Puebla Plant and Nuevo León HUB, which are the largest gums, candies and biscuits factories in the world in terms of volume. You can buy are products in 900,000 places in Mexico. We are also home to one of the 11 technology centers Mondelez International has worldwide, a specialized gum and candy facility that places us at the forefront of innovation and development in the country and drives our purpose to lead the future of snacking. We are pioneers in the country in work-life balance practices such as extended maternity leave, open spaces, remote work and flexible working hours.

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.

Job Type

Regular

Packaging Development & Engineering

Science & Engineering