Senior Scientist I- Triscuit Brand Steward

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

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

Working as part of a cross-functional team you lead the R&D activities required to complete new product development and maintain portfolios and/or productivity projects keeping in mind the goal to deliver the desired consumer experience.

How you will contribute

The candidate will be responsible for the Product Brand Stewardship for North America Triscuit and in addition, they will be driving the innovation pipeline for the brand.  This role includes overseeing the Triscuit portfolio with a mind for driving quality and consumer centricity across the brand, as well as supporting the team with the innovation pipeline. The candidate will own productivity, alternate line qualifications, ingredient substitutions, quality improvement, consumer complaint reduction and line extensions for the brand. The candidate will be the R&D brand leader, and will interact with marketing, operations, and quality leads to develop, coordinate, and commercialize brand projects/programs. They will be a key intersect between R&D with the commercial team, the wider cross-functional team, and our consumers & customers.  

What you will bring

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

• Leading R&D teams and influencing cross-functional teams
• Handling multiple priorities
• Proactively identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
• Applying technical curiosity and understanding to interpret and analyze data
• Effectively influencing senior-level and cross-functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical report conclusions
• Coaching and mentoring others

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Support cross-functional team to identify opportunities for the brand based on business priorities and consumer & customer needs

• Work with a cross-functional team to plan and execute a robust approach to fulfilling the identified needs 

• Provide technical input to project teams and act as a linkage back to the internal / external technical community 

• Design experiments, analyze results, & translate them into actionable recommendations with minimal guidance and support. 

• Understand the functional characteristics of product ingredients, formulations and process, including how they impact finished products to meet consumer expectations. 

• Manage a wide-agenda of varying priorities with strong time-management and organization 

• Have knowledge of the commercialization process (how to take products from idea to market) and how to execute these processes with the right-fit agility.

• Think end to end to proactively assess risks and develop right-fit mitigation plans based on the probability and impact 

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