Planning Sr. Director, Mex BU

Mondelez International; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondelez México is seeking a senior Demand Planning Lead to oversee a forecasting team and drive the 24‑month demand plan across product families. You will collaborate with finance, modelling, marketing, and supply planning to ensure integrated business planning and timely decisions.

The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, strategic thinking, and leadership to guide cross-functional teams through IBP cycles and forecast risk management.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in demand planning and IBP cycles.
• Strong analytical and verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a forecasting team responsible for developing an unbiased 24‑month forecast with documented assumptions.
• Partner with category finance to link IBP forecasts to financial forecasts with risks/opportunities.
• Collaborate with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting.
• Work with commercial leadership to quantify risks/opportunities and close forecast gaps.
• Coordinate with innovation/equity to size innovations, renovations, and campaigns in the 24‑month forecast.
• Partner with supply planning to ensure confidence in the demand plan and timely decisions.
• Manage, coach and develop the demand planning team to continuously improve capabilities.

Skills

Demand planning

IBP

Strategic agility

Leadership

Data analysis

Cross-functional collab

Problem solving

Job description

Santa Fé, Mexico

Full time

R-178632

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.

You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit or area. You will also support the demand review process, championing the integrated business planning process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Manage a forecasting team responsible for the development of an unbiased and unconstrained forecast over a 24-month period with properly documented assumptions
• Partner with category finance to support appropriate linkage between the monthly integrated business planning (IBP) forecast and financial forecasts (key assumptions, risks, opportunities)
• Partner with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
• Partner with commercial leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities and support the development of plans to close gaps between the forecast and target
• Partner with innovation and equity to validate the sizing of innovations, renovations and campaigns as they enter the 24-month forecast
• Partner with supply planning to ensure there is confidence in the demand plan and that key forecast decisions are made by the appropriate stakeholders and with the appropriate amount of lead time to ensure the successful execution and delivery of the plan
• Manage, coach and develop a team driving continuous capability building in the demand planning team for planning improvement

What you will bring

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

• Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and strong business acumen, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer goods environment
• Open to learn new ways of working and is willing to be hands on in using data and systems
• Significant experience driving demand review and participation in an IBP cycle
• Strategic agility, able to drive for cross-functional results by proactively understanding and managing key issues and success criteria, and prioritizing accordingly
• Project personal maturity and tact to effectively work with cross-functional team members to deal with conflicting priorities and ambiguity
• Strong senior leadership influencing skills and organizational agility. Able to build effective teams
• Knowledge of leading practice demand planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and verbal and written communication skills

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez México has been in the country since 1927 and currently employs 6,000 wonderful people. Our diverse portfolio includes iconic and mouth-watering global brands such as Trident, Oreo, Philadelphia, and local jewels like Clorets and Bubbaloo. We are leaders in the making of cream cheese, powdered beverages and confections—in fact, we make seven out of every 10 chewing gums consumed by Mexicans. Our growth is supported by our cutting-edge manufacturing facilities, such as our Puebla Plant and Nuevo León HUB, which are the largest gums, candies and biscuits factories in the world in terms of volume. You can buy are products in 900,000 places in Mexico. We are also home to one of the 11 technology centers Mondelez International has worldwide, a specialized gum and candy facility that places us at the forefront of innovation and development in the country and drives our purpose to lead the future of snacking. We are pioneers in the country in work-life balance practices such as extended maternity leave, open spaces, remote work and flexible working hours.

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 Type

Regular

Network Management

Customer Service & Logistics

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.

Join us and Make It An Opportunity!

Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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 847-943-5460 for assistance.