Director, E2E Planning Lead

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International

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

This position leads the planning of a category with 900 SKUS and a team of 40 Supply and Demand teams.
This a senior level strategic role in which the incumbent will partner with VPs across Finance Supply Chain Sales Planning Logistics and Category teams as an IBP Lead and owner for the respective categories.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Manage a supply planning team responsible for the category/business unitsupplyplanning review process of the integrated business planning process

• Lead the monthly supply review process specifically facilitating thecategory/business unit supply review with stakeholders in the integrated supplychain function

• Ensure business agreement on the supply of the plan capacity constraints raw and pack risksand its cost for the future 12-18-month timeline

• Support the 18-36-month strategic capacity plan

• Support the interaction with demandplanning manufacturing business development andfinance

• Manage coach and develop a team

• Drive continuous capability building in the supply planning team for planningimprovement

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 andstrong 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 andmanaging key issues and success criteria and prioritizing accordingly

• Project personal maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional team members todeal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity

• Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility. Able to build effectiveteams

• Knowledgeable of leading practice demand planning and supply chainconcepts

• Excellent problem-solving analytical and verbal and written communicationskills

What extra ingredients you will bring:

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

• 10- 15 years of planning/ business process/ industrial experience.

• Team Leader experience 7 years and Project management / agile method experience is desirable.

• Ability to provide strategic technical leadership and lead by influence in the creation of supply chain planning environment and broader enterprise system environment

• Ability to communicate and influence multi-disciplinary teams developing strong partnerships across functions to drive the design build and deployment of state of the art rapid and responsive planning systems environment.

• Leadership experience in all aspects of planning deployment and knowledgeable of the uses of automation/ ML/ AI to achieve touchless planning solution with integration to enterprise environments such as SAP S4 and other critical digital core surround systems.

• Functional knowledge of manufacturing and distribution operations including but not limited to the following functions: planning/forecasting supply management procurement sales and operations planning new product introduction transition management production scheduling quality control inventory management supply chain warehouse and distribution.

• Track record of project delivery success that should include: System Implementation / Integration cost savings process improvement.

• Expert knowledge of Demand Inventory Scenario and Supply Network Planning tools and ERP with broad expertise in various disciplines (system development infrastructure) and new technologies.

• Experience in supplier management Project Management Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

• Strong analytical skills demonstrated organizational and leadership skills examples of effective teamwork a track record of consistently meeting deadlines and due dates.

• Excellent judgment interpersonal skills cultural awareness and professional maturity with executive presentation experience comfortable interacting with senior executive leadership lead facilitate and manage change effectively.

• Six-Sigma Continuous Improvement is preferred along with a proven track record of cost savings and continuous improvement accomplishments.

Education / Certifications:

Bachelors Degree (required). Preferred fields include Supply Chain Operations Industrial Engineering Business Management or related discipline.

Job specific requirements:

• Manage a forecasting team responsible for the development of an unbiased and unconstrained forecast over a 24-month period with properly documented assumptions

• Partner with category finance to support appropriate linkage between the monthly integrated business planning (IBP) forecast and financial forecasts (key assumptions risks opportunities)

• Partner with commercial leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities and support the development of plans to close gaps between the forecast and target

• Partner with innovation and equity to validate the sizing of innovations renovations and campaigns as they enter the 24-month forecast

• Partner with supply planning to ensure there is confidence in the demand plan and that key forecast decisions are made by the appropriate stakeholders and with the appropriate amount of lead time to ensure the successful execution and delivery of the plan

• Leadership of the Control tower process to drive synchronization across Sales/ Marketing/ Finance & Supply chain organizations and ensure short term business delivery

• Strategic leadership of overall capacity sufficiency & Integrated Business Planning from a supply sufficiency perspective. Ownership of inventories across North America

• Manage a supply planning team responsible for the category/business unit supply planning review process of the integrated business planning process

• Design roadmap to achieve CFR across relevant category within the CA Business.

• Define DIOH targets per category/brand quantify volume reduction establish inventory management governance define inventory reduction phasing.

• Identify capacity constraints and lead communication with critical stakeholders to keep them informed and drive actions

• Developing next generation talent driving employee morale & engagement within the organization

Travel requirements:

Limited travel to Manufacturing Facilities and DCs within Ontario

Work schedule:

Regular working hours hybrid Monday to Friday

The expected base salary depends on several factors such as experience skills education and addition to base salary this position is eligible to participate in a highly competitivebonus program with the possibility for overachievement (based on performance and company results) and a long term incentive program.

Mondelez also offers several generous employee benefits (some subsidized orfully paid for by the company) including car allowance health insurance wellness and family support programs life and disability insurance retirement savings plans paid leave programs education related programs and enhanced vacation and holiday entitlements.

AI may be used as part of the recruitment process and in accordance with local laws. This posting is for a current vacancy.

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites including Cadbury OREO Christie and Maynards we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first second or third in their categories and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate cookies crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of addition we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term accommodation in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

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