R&D Product Development Manager, Chocolate

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 RDQ 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

You will work independently to plan, lead and coordinate technical projects in line with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements You will effectively communicate status and risks and plan, lead and coordinate pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. In addition, you will plan, lead and coordinate development activities (e.g. product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation. etc.). To provide direction for product development, you will use digital simulation models to obtain, understand and interpret consumer insights and commercial information. In this role, you will create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications and be responsible for stakeholder management and influencing decisions based on conclusions made from analysis and interpretation of results.

What you will bring

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

• Leading RDQ 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

The holder of this position independently plans, leads and co-ordinates large to medium sized projects from R&D, which includes specification work and a high level of organization required.  They will deliver expert technical knowledge for product development and process development for chocolate, develop solutions to problems, ensures compliance to technical policies & procedures and delivers the technical input to address business needs. Executes against objectives and significantly influences the direction and quality of work done by other technical people.  This person will work for Chocolate North America through execution in Egypt.

What you need to know about this position:

• Drive excellence in Project Management.
• Plan and executes work plans, including development of risk assessments and contingency plans.
• Analyze results of experiments and translate them into actionable recommendations, independently.
• Have strong knowledge of the commercialization process.
• Identify and efficiently utilize necessary resources to achieve timely delivery of project objectives. In addition, the candidate should have good understanding of the functional characteristics of ingredients, packaging materials, and processing capabilities and how they impact the finished product, to meet consumer and business expectations.
• Demonstrates consideration of long-term consequences of decisions
• Applies advanced technical knowledge of impact of formulation, process changes and/or interactions on product characteristics and consumer impact in project work.Provides guidance to others.
• Ability to work closely with the North America team from Egypt Location.
• The candidate must be versatile and be able to work in cross-functional teams.
• Capable of working proactively across multiple projects.
• Leverage the value in MDLZ experts/partners, demonstrate and utilize an understanding of the NA supply chain network, and ensure compliance to quality documentation, regulatory requirements, FTO/IP, and confidentiality requirements.

Education / Certifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Chemical Engineering or related field.

Job specific requirements:

• Minimum of 8 yrs. experience, preferably in the food industry.
• Strong technical foundation and technical curiosity.
• Ability to develop, plan for, and carry out plant trials
• Ability to develop and drive technical projects with proper scientific rigor: conduct appropriate testing, gather and analyze data, and develop recommendations based on findings.
• Demonstrate ability to handle multiple projects, prioritize and manage complexity- from bench top to commercialization.
• Participate in cross functional teams to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Write process specifications that deliver consistent, high-quality products across numerous manufacturing facilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; able to effectively communicate to all levels within the organization
• Travel up to 25%, to potential locations in Canada, Europe, US, and Mexico.

Work schedule: Full Time

No Relocation support availableBusiness Unit SummaryMondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes,Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls candy. 

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job TypeRegularProduct developmentScience & Engineering