Sr Director, Global Strategic Intelligence
East Hanover, NJ - USA
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION: Sr. Director Global Strategic Insights
Job Scope / Mission:
The Sr. Director Global Strategic Intelligence sets the vision and leads the agenda for proactive board-ready strategic intelligence that informs enterprise-level decision making. This role delivers comprehensive state of the consumer and marketplace assessments emerging trends and foresights global category benchmarking versus the broader food industry and cross-category strategic intelligence to support key enterprise initiatives.
Partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders this position ensures that Mondelez is equipped with forward-looking externally grounded insights that shape long-term strategy and enhance our competitive position. This role plays a pivotal part in preparing executive briefings for leadership forums Board of Directors and Earnings communications with compelling data-driven narratives.
Key Accountabilities:
State of the Consumer & Marketplace: Develop and deliver proactive board-ready assessments of consumer sentiment shifting demand macroeconomic shifts and marketplace dynamics that influence category growth to inform enterprise strategy and long-range planning. Board & Earnings Call Preparation: Own the development of strategic intelligence content for Board of Directors meetings Earnings call preparation documents and other senior executive communications ensuring clear compelling and insight-driven storytelling. This role owns the strategic narrative and foresight content while the I&A Operations team owns performance data dashboards and forecasting models. Cross-Category Strategic Intelligence: Provide strategic intelligence and analytical support for cross-category enterprise initiatives (e.g. mindful snacking sustainability strategy category-agnostic occasion-based growth initiatives) partnering with Category Strategy Corporate Strategy Sustainability and BU teams to ensure insights-led decision making. Thought Leadership: Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the SVP Global I&A and broader MLT proactively surfacing strategic implications and so what narratives that connect external intelligence to Mondelez priorities. Build a strong collaborative relationship with Corporate Communications to translate insights for external deployment. Trends & Foresight Communications: Partner with the FTR foresights and trends monitoring team to synthesize emerging consumer category and industry trends into actionable foresight narratives that help the organization anticipate and capitalize on future growth opportunities. Build strong relationships with Category and Corporate Strategy Innovation Excellence and Global Brand teams to continually pressure test and update strategic initiatives to ensure future-proofed plans. Global Category Benchmarking: Lead comprehensive benchmarking of Mondelez categories versus the broader food industry providing competitive context and strategic implications for portfolio and growth decisions. Monthly Global Performance Narrative: Oversee the executive-level narrative for OLT (Operating Leadership Team) Monthly meetings with deeper dives quarterly during earnings release. AI-Enabled Strategic Intelligence: Partner with I&A Operations and MDS to architect and deploy AI-powered tools and infrastructure for always-on competitive monitoring automated trend synthesis and proactive executive alerting. Champion the adoption of AI-enabled workflows across the enterprise intelligence function.
Required Skills:
Commercial & Strategic Acumen: Combines deep knowledge of MDLZs business model competitive landscape and future growth drivers to deliver insights and recommendations that are immediately actionable and commercially relevant. Executive Communication & Storytelling: Exceptional ability to distill complex multi-source intelligence into compelling board-ready narratives that influence senior decision-makers and drive strategic action. Digital & AI Fluency: Comfort with AI-powered intelligence tools automation platforms and emerging technologies that enable scalable always-on strategic monitoring and synthesis. Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated ability to translate intelligence into action across Strategy Marketing Innovation Finance and Sustainability building alignment in a highly matrixed global organization. Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to work across functions and BUs as well as across multiple leadership levels across up and down with strong executive presence. Team Leadership: Build develop and inspire a high-performing strategic intelligence team fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity proactive thinking and executive-ready communication. Change Management & Transformation: Ability to lead and influence organizational change identifying opportunities to modernize intelligence workflows and enable enterprise-wide adoption of new tools and methodologies.
Reporting Structure:
Reports To: SVP Global Insights & Analytics
Direct Reports (2): Sr. Manager Cross-Category Strategy (SG13); Sr. Analyst Strategic Intelligence (L11)
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree required. 12 years of progressive experience in strategic insights competitive intelligence consumer foresight or strategy/consulting roles within CPG/Food & Beverage. Deep expertise in consumer and marketplace trend analysis competitive benchmarking and strategic storytelling. Proven ability to synthesize complex multi-source information into clear board-ready narratives and recommendations. Strong executive presence with experience presenting to and influencing C-suite and Board-level audiences. Proven people leadership with track record of building and developing highly motivated empowered and high-performing teams. Strong bias for action with a proven track record in persuasively influencing and aligning business stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization. Experience preparing content for public company earnings communications.
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA or Masters in Strategy Economics Business or related field. Experience in a global role spanning multiple regions/markets. Familiarity with intelligence platforms such as Euromonitor GlobalData Mintel Nielsen or AI-based intelligence tools. Transformative thinker with an expansive innovative mindset comfortable with ambiguity and thinking outside the box. Highly collaborative team player with proven track record of getting the best out of a team regardless of location or reporting lines.
JOB DESCRIPTION: Sr. Director Global Strategic Insights
Job Scope / Mission:
The Sr. Director Global Strategic Intelligence sets the vision and leads the agenda for proactive board-ready strategic intelligence that informs enterprise-level decision making. This role delivers comprehensive state of the consumer and marketplace assessments emerging trends and foresights global category benchmarking versus the broader food industry and cross-category strategic intelligence to support key enterprise initiatives.
Partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders this position ensures that Mondelez is equipped with forward-looking externally grounded insights that shape long-term strategy and enhance our competitive position. This role plays a pivotal part in preparing executive briefings for leadership forums Board of Directors and Earnings communications with compelling data-driven narratives.
Key Accountabilities:
State of the Consumer & Marketplace: Develop and deliver proactive board-ready assessments of consumer sentiment shifting demand macroeconomic shifts and marketplace dynamics that influence category growth to inform enterprise strategy and long-range planning. Board & Earnings Call Preparation: Own the development of strategic intelligence content for Board of Directors meetings Earnings call preparation documents and other senior executive communications ensuring clear compelling and insight-driven storytelling. This role owns the strategic narrative and foresight content while the I&A Operations team owns performance data dashboards and forecasting models. Cross-Category Strategic Intelligence: Provide strategic intelligence and analytical support for cross-category enterprise initiatives (e.g. mindful snacking sustainability strategy category-agnostic occasion-based growth initiatives) partnering with Category Strategy Corporate Strategy Sustainability and BU teams to ensure insights-led decision making. Thought Leadership: Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the SVP Global I&A and broader MLT proactively surfacing strategic implications and so what narratives that connect external intelligence to Mondelez priorities. Build a strong collaborative relationship with Corporate Communications to translate insights for external deployment. Trends & Foresight Communications: Partner with the FTR foresights and trends monitoring team to synthesize emerging consumer category and industry trends into actionable foresight narratives that help the organization anticipate and capitalize on future growth opportunities. Build strong relationships with Category and Corporate Strategy Innovation Excellence and Global Brand teams to continually pressure test and update strategic initiatives to ensure future-proofed plans. Global Category Benchmarking: Lead comprehensive benchmarking of Mondelez categories versus the broader food industry providing competitive context and strategic implications for portfolio and growth decisions. Monthly Global Performance Narrative: Oversee the executive-level narrative for OLT (Operating Leadership Team) Monthly meetings with deeper dives quarterly during earnings release. AI-Enabled Strategic Intelligence: Partner with I&A Operations and MDS to architect and deploy AI-powered tools and infrastructure for always-on competitive monitoring automated trend synthesis and proactive executive alerting. Champion the adoption of AI-enabled workflows across the enterprise intelligence function.
Required Skills:
Commercial & Strategic Acumen: Combines deep knowledge of MDLZs business model competitive landscape and future growth drivers to deliver insights and recommendations that are immediately actionable and commercially relevant. Executive Communication & Storytelling: Exceptional ability to distill complex multi-source intelligence into compelling board-ready narratives that influence senior decision-makers and drive strategic action. Digital & AI Fluency: Comfort with AI-powered intelligence tools automation platforms and emerging technologies that enable scalable always-on strategic monitoring and synthesis. Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated ability to translate intelligence into action across Strategy Marketing Innovation Finance and Sustainability building alignment in a highly matrixed global organization. Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to work across functions and BUs as well as across multiple leadership levels across up and down with strong executive presence. Team Leadership: Build develop and inspire a high-performing strategic intelligence team fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity proactive thinking and executive-ready communication. Change Management & Transformation: Ability to lead and influence organizational change identifying opportunities to modernize intelligence workflows and enable enterprise-wide adoption of new tools and methodologies.
Reporting Structure:
Reports To: SVP Global Insights & Analytics
Direct Reports (2): Sr. Manager Cross-Category Strategy (SG13); Sr. Analyst Strategic Intelligence (L11)
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree required. 12 years of progressive experience in strategic insights competitive intelligence consumer foresight or strategy/consulting roles within CPG/Food & Beverage. Deep expertise in consumer and marketplace trend analysis competitive benchmarking and strategic storytelling. Proven ability to synthesize complex multi-source information into clear board-ready narratives and recommendations. Strong executive presence with experience presenting to and influencing C-suite and Board-level audiences. Proven people leadership with track record of building and developing highly motivated empowered and high-performing teams. Strong bias for action with a proven track record in persuasively influencing and aligning business stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization. Experience preparing content for public company earnings communications.
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA or Masters in Strategy Economics Business or related field. Experience in a global role spanning multiple regions/markets. Familiarity with intelligence platforms such as Euromonitor GlobalData Mintel Nielsen or AI-based intelligence tools. Transformative thinker with an expansive innovative mindset comfortable with ambiguity and thinking outside the box. Highly collaborative team player with proven track record of getting the best out of a team regardless of location or reporting lines.
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack at the right moment made the right way. We have corporate offices sales manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brandsincluding Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies Ritz Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected Veteran status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact for assistance.
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About Company
Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We're leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. ... View more