Sr Materials Manager

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

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

You will oversee supply planning activities for your product families in the business unit. You will also be responsible for supporting the supply review process and interactions with the cross-functional teams.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Manage a supply planning team responsible for the category/business unit supply planning review process of the integrated business planning process
• Lead the monthly supply review process, specifically facilitating the category/business unit supply review with stakeholders in the integrated supply chain function
• Ensure business agreement on the supply of the plan, capacity constraints, raw and pack risks and its cost for the future 12-18-month timeline
• Support the 18-36-month strategic capacity plan
• Support the interaction with demand planning, manufacturing, business development and finance
• Manage, coach and develop a team
• Drive continuous capability building in the supply planning team for planning improvement

What you will bring

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

• Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and strong business acumen ideally within an FMCG/CPG environment
• Open to learn new ways of working and willing to be hands-on in using data and systems
• Significant experience in driving supply review and participation in an IBP cycle
• Strategic agility, able to drive for cross-functional results by proactively understanding and managing key issues and success criteria, and prioritizing accordingly
• Project personal maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional team members to deal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity
• Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility. Able to build effective teams
• Knowledgeable of leading practice demand planning and supply chain concepts
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and verbal and written communication skills

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

• Develop and foster a high performing team, ensuring delivery of critical KPI related to materials – CFR, OTIF innovation execution, and waste

• Optimize supply availability, inventory investment and risk of obsolescence. Establish, execute and deliver RPW waste targets, reduction initiatives with plants and vendors

• Lead team to deliver commercialization and promotional activities within the materials management function by working closely with internal and external manufacturing, marketing, sales, procurement, and vendors

• Provide centralized communication to senior leadership and stakeholders on all RPW risks and recovery plans. Serve as point of escalation for materials availability topics, risks, priorities

• Steer transformational and technical initiatives with regards to materials planning systems, tools and processes

• Lead continuous improvement and process automation agenda for the HQMM team. Bring strong analytical skillset in a space of planning systems and technical reporting tools

• Act as “voice of the team” for materials roadmap creation, blueprinting sessions, partner with technical and executional groups

• Provide support and coaching to direct reports. Lead engagement agenda and interaction with internal and cross-functional team members

• Adopt IL6S-Integrated Lean 6 sigma ways of working and