Product Change Manager

Mondelez International; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global snacks company in Birmingham seeks an experienced Project Change Manager to oversee product change projects. This role demands strong project management skills, including risk assessment, budget management, and stakeholder influencing. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or Engineering. The position offers an opportunity to lead cross-functional teams and drive project success in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management methodology.
• Excellent project planning and ability to manage strict timelines.
• Strong focus on cost, schedule, and quality of project delivery.
• Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistency and quality in project execution.
• Identify and mitigate project-level risks.
• Lead budget management and resource planning.
• Create project timelines and assign tasks.

Skills

Project management methodology

Excellent communication skills

Cost and schedule focus

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or Engineering

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalation 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, The Product Change Manager has the key responsibility to manage product change projects and ensure issues are escalated and risk mitigated to ensure overall business plans & strategies are delivered. The PCM drives the product change agenda by managing the Global I2M process ensuring that all interdependencies are assessed, and synergies are maximized to deliver best for business solution. The PCM interfaces extensively with Consumer Marketing, R&D, Quality, Procurement, Customer Development, Finance, and all functions within Supply Chain (BD, Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics), to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters., Lead cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of projects to meet the revenue, volume, growth, productivity and quality goals, using Global Idea to market principles.
• Own and drive the definition of project scope, goals, tasks and resource (people and cost) requirements; resolve or lead the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional groups; develop methods to monitor project progress and provide corrective action if necessary.
• Create project timelines, assign tasks and activities to stakeholders. Follow up to ensure timely delivery overall project timelines
• Ensure that project scope and timing take into consideration minimizing waste and reducing complexity to the business; champion these activities within the business and project team
• Ensure that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning (for relevant projects) takes place, is communicated and agreed upon by all stakeholders and is acted on if necessary.
• Continuously improve the ways of working, project management toolkits and methodologies, enable best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed out and key learnings are documented.

Qualifications

• 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, Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Communication skills : excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with senior leadership and cross functional teams.
• Analytical skills: strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to make data driven decisions and identify risks on timely manner.
• Change management: understanding of change management processes and the ability to manage projects in dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Stakeholders management and Leadership skills : ability to manage cross functional teams, influence stakeholders and drive project performance.
• Time management.