Specialist, Project & Program Mgt, Project Management

Mondelēz International; Lowertown; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global snacking company in Lowertown seeks a Project Manager responsible for overseeing business change initiatives. The role includes managing project teams, facilitating project scopes, and ensuring stakeholder communication. Ideal candidates will have an engineering background and project management experience. Join us to enhance your career while contributing to our mission of leading the future of snacking.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management methodology.
• Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions.
• Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage project team meetings and hold members accountable.
• Facilitate the definition of project scopes and goals.
• Lead communication on all project matters with stakeholders.

Skills

Project management methodology

Excellent communication skills

Excellent project planning

Stakeholder management

Analytic skills

Education

Engineering qualification or relevant experience

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.

Ernest Jackson exists to keep families at their best by developing accessible healthcare products to consumers and customers.

The PM role is responsible for supporting Project Management throughout the business change initiatives e.g. product innovation or pack change, from project initiation through to implementation and launch using the I2M process. This role interfaces extensively with the Engineering/Supply Chain, Commercial (Sales and Marketing), Finance, Research and Development, Quality, Regulatory and Legal Departments to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters. The ideal candidate will have an engineering qualification or experience within an engineering manufacturing environment and be knowledgeable in health and safety regulations in a manufacturing environment, however, experience in similar manufacturing environments will be considered. The candidate will be working alongside an experienced Engineering Project Manager and should therefore be keen to develop as a Project Manager with an Engineering Specialism.

How you will contribute

Project Management

• Identify and engage cross functional representatives forming a team to deliver the project brief
• Manage project team meetings
• Challenge and inspire project teams to maximize efficient project delivery
• Hold all levels of project team to account, specifically on timings and costs

Project Planning

• Facilitate the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks and resource (people and cost) requirements
• Deliver the agreed projects in full accordance with the I2M process

Communication and Reporting (specific projects)

• Lead communication on all project matters with clear stakeholder management
• Maintain project documentation and reporting to communicate clear status of projects
• Maintain quality communication with PMG Team
• Ensure that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning takes place, is communicated, and agreed upon by stakeholders. Ensure that the contingency plan is acted upon if necessary to keep the project on track, accelerate or stop the project if the business need exists
• Follow governance and reporting requirements as per the PMO Process including Key Performance Indicators

Process

• Extensive and close working with Project and Process Engineers in the delivery of site infrastructure upgrades
• Managing and supporting Projects during shutdowns, trials and machinery installs
• Ensure that project scopes and timing take into consideration minimizing waste (raw, pack write-offs) and unwanted complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, SKU proliferation) to the business system
• Ensure full Supply Chain visibility through the I2M Process and work within guidelines of best practice project management process using available tools including My Project and I2M
• Enable best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed and key learnings are documented and preparing project evaluations when required
• Initiate the finished goods Master data setup and communicate completed information to all stakeholders so all systems can be properly set up to produce, ship, sell and invoice our products
• Manage the traded unit (non-regulated) graphic process ensuring compliance with all Mondelez policies and communicate completed information to all stakeholders
• Ensure correct Product Labelling Specifications (PLS) handling, D2P process coordination and co-packing handling

All duties must be carried in line with all the relevant Health, Safety and Environmental regulations, SOPs, Company Policies and Guidelines set out by Ernest Jackson relating to your employment, duties, and associated tasks. These must be followed at all times with any and all deviations from process escalated appropriately.

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

Work schedule: 100%

Relocation Support Available? No Relocation support available Business Unit Summary We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply! Our people make all the difference in our succes

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.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Job Type

Regular Project and Program Management Business Capability