Manufacturing Business Development Manager

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

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.**

You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project’s readiness to go live.

**How you will contribute**

You will:

- Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed
- Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings
- Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization
- Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
- Own the relationship with the external vendors including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery

**What you will bring**

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

- Proven experience in project management methodology
- Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
- Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
- Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery
- Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions
- Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
- Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
- Strong conceptual and analytic skills - enjoys problem solving

**More about this role**

**What you need to know about this position**:
**What extra ingredients you will bring**:
Strong interpersonal skills; succinct and clear presentation style; ability to see the “big picture” and lead strategic discussions

**Education / Certifications**:
Preferred (but not mandatory): Engineering degree

**Job specific requirements**:
7-10 years of relevant experience

**Travel requirements**:
Limited (some travel within GTA ~20%)

**Work schedule**:
Mon - Fri business hours

No Relocation support available

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 2,683 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 activity. In 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.

Job Type

Regular

Manufacturing support

Manufacturing

Job Details

**Title**

Manufacturing Business Development Manager, Confectionary

**Function**

Manufacturing

**Date**

11/29/2024

**Job ID**

R-126270

**Work Schedule**

Full time

**Job Type**

Regular

**Location**

**Toronto, Canada