R&D Manager, Product Development

Mondelez International AMEA; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondelēz International is seeking a senior RDQ leader in Singapore to drive product development, prioritize development activities, and maintain a portfolio of initiatives that enhance the consumer experience. You will guide cross-functional teams, allocate resources, and communicate risks to stakeholders with technical rigor and leadership.

As a people leader, you will recruit, mentor and develop direct and indirect reports, ensuring peak team performance and ongoing capability growth in a

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.

Leading a team of RDQ professionals in product development, you identify and prioritize development activities. You lead teams that deliver RDQ activities needed to complete new product development, and that maintain portfolios and/or productivity projects, keeping in mind the goal to create the desired consumer experience.

How you will contribute

You will work with a cross-functional partner to define, initiate and lead teams to successfully deliver business goals using technical rigor and best practices while effectively allocating resources and prioritizing workloads. Influencing skills are important in this role because you will use them to educate business stakeholders about technical risks, ensuring clear communication and understanding to allow for effective cross-functional decision making. You will also create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications. As a technical and people leaders, you demonstrate your own high levels of technical rigor and expertise and that of your team by tapping into internal and external resources to stay up-to-date on the latest best practices and to continuously identify opportunities for improvement, keeping in mind consumers’ wants and needs. As a people leader, you recruit, retain and develop a team of direct and indirect reports to ensure highest team performance, and mentor and coach your team and others to grow capability and support career development.

What you will bring

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

• Leading teams and coaching and mentoring to foster performance and team effectiveness

• Influencing cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders in decision making

• Delivering results in a fast paced, complex and ambiguous environment

• Handling multiple priorities

• Succeeding in a fast-moving consumer goods environment