Sr Director, Global Strategic Intelligence
Mondelēz International
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Job summary
Mondelēz International, based in the United States, seeks a Sr. Director, Global Strategic Insights to shape the vision for proactive, board-ready intelligence informing enterprise decisions.
You will lead consumer Sentiment analysis, marketplace dynamics, and cross-category benchmarking to support growth initiatives and strategy execution, while collaborating with Strategy, Sustainability, and Innovation teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree required. 12+ years of progressive experience in strategic insights, competitive intelligence, consumer foresight, or strategy/consulting within CPG/Food & Beverage.
- Strong executive presence with experience presenting to C-suite and Board-level audiences.
- Proven ability to synthesize complex, multi-source information into clear, board-ready narratives and recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Develop proactive, board-ready strategic intelligence content for Board meetings and Earnings calls.
- Lead state-of-the-consumer & marketplace assessments and cross-category strategic intelligence.
- Oversee AI-enabled monitoring and foresight tools adoption across the enterprise intelligence function.
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Job description
The Sr. Director, Global Strategic Intelligence sets the vision and leads the agenda for proactive, board-ready strategic intelligence that informs enterprise-level decision making. This role delivers comprehensive state of the consumer and marketplace assessments, emerging trends and foresights, global category benchmarking versus the broader food industry, and cross-category strategic intelligence to support key enterprise initiatives.
Develop and deliver proactive, board-ready assessments of consumer sentiment, shifting demand, macroeconomic shifts, and marketplace dynamics that influence category growth to inform enterprise strategy and long-range planning.
Own the development of strategic intelligence content for Board of Directors meetings, Earnings call preparation documents, and other senior executive communications, ensuring clear, compelling, and insight-driven storytelling. This role owns the strategic narrative and foresight content, while the I&A Operations team owns performance data, dashboards, and forecasting models.
Provide strategic intelligence and analytical support for cross-category enterprise initiatives (e.g., mindful snacking, sustainability strategy, category-agnostic occasion-based growth initiatives), partnering with Category Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Sustainability, and BU teams to ensure insights-led decision making.
Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the SVP, Global I&A and broader MLT, proactively surfacing strategic implications and “so what” narratives that connect external intelligence to Mondelez priorities. Build a strong collaborative relationship with Corporate Communications to translate insights for external deployment.
Partner with the FTR foresights and trends monitoring team to synthesize emerging consumer, category, and industry trends into actionable foresight narratives that help the organization anticipate and capitalize on future growth opportunities. Build strong relationships with Category and Corporate Strategy, Innovation Excellence, and Global Brand teams to continually pressure test and update strategic initiatives to ensure future-proofed plans.
Lead comprehensive benchmarking of Mondelez categories versus the broader food industry, providing competitive context and strategic implications for portfolio and growth decisions.
Oversee the executive-level narrative for OLT (Operating Leadership Team) Monthly meetings, with deeper dives quarterly during earnings release.
Partner with I&A Operations and MDS to architect and deploy AI-powered tools and infrastructure for always-on competitive monitoring, automated trend synthesis, and proactive executive alerting. Champion the adoption of AI-enabled workflows across the enterprise intelligence function.
Combines deep knowledge of MDLZ's business model, competitive landscape, and future growth drivers to deliver insights and recommendations that are immediately actionable and commercially relevant.
Exceptional ability to distill complex, multi-source intelligence into compelling, board-ready narratives that influence senior decision-makers and drive strategic action.
Comfort with AI-powered intelligence tools, automation platforms, and emerging technologies that enable scalable, always-on strategic monitoring and synthesis.
Demonstrated ability to translate intelligence into action across Strategy, Marketing, Innovation, Finance, and Sustainability — building alignment in a highly matrixed global organization.
Proven ability to work across functions and BUs, as well as across multiple leadership levels — across, up, and down — with strong executive presence.
Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing strategic intelligence team, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity, proactive thinking, and executive-ready communication.
Ability to lead and influence organizational change, identifying opportunities to modernize intelligence workflows and enable enterprise-wide adoption of new tools and methodologies.
Reports To: SVP, Global Insights & Analytics
Direct Reports (2): Sr. Manager, Cross-Category Strategy (SG13); Sr. Analyst, Strategic Intelligence (L11)
Bachelor's Degree required. 12+ years of progressive experience in strategic insights, competitive intelligence, consumer foresight, or strategy/consulting roles within CPG/Food & Beverage. Deep expertise in consumer and marketplace trend analysis, competitive benchmarking, and strategic storytelling. Proven ability to synthesize complex, multi-source information into clear, board-ready narratives and recommendations. Strong executive presence with experience presenting to and influencing C-suite and Board-level audiences. Proven people leadership with track record of building and developing highly motivated, empowered, and high-performing teams. Strong bias for action, with a proven track record in persuasively influencing and aligning business stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization. Experience preparing content for public company earnings communications.
MBA or Master's in Strategy, Economics, Business, or related field. Experience in a global role spanning multiple regions/markets. Familiarity with intelligence platforms such as Euromonitor, GlobalData, Mintel, Nielsen, or AI-based intelligence tools. Transformative thinker with an expansive, innovative mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and thinking outside the box. Highly collaborative team player with proven track record of getting the best out of a team, regardless of location or reporting lines.
The base salary range for this position is $174,100 to $287,265; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results and eligibility to participate in our long-term incentive program. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. 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.
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