Director, Corporate Quality Assurance

Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

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

You use your highly developed technical knowledge and leadership skills to direct technical, scientific and business programs and manage resources in an assigned category, function or geography. You also take the lead in developing strategy, policy and direction. As a senior member on the management team, you interact with senior levels of clients and the technical and scientific community.

How you will contribute

You will translate business needs into robust technical quality strategies and programs and lead your team to successfully execute these strategies and programs across the supply chain, leveraging internal skills and external partners to accelerate efficiency. To deliver quality strategies, you will manage human and financial resourcing plan to meet agreed targets. In addition, you will use your highly developed communication skills to influence and partner with cross-functional senior leaders, explaining the impact and benefits of long-term quality strategies and programs; foster a culture of collaboration across the global community, identifying and applying consistent best practices and ways of working; lead and drive a culture of quality improvement, consumer focus, and value across the supply chain, and; develop and grow a diverse talent base that meets the business’ needs and helps build the global pool of quality functional talent. You will also contribute to the management of special situations / early warnings with respect to plant investigations, root cause analysis and follow-ups.

What you will bring

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

Quality leadership experience that drives commercial outcomes, ideally in fast moving consumer goods environment

Influencing business strategy through critical thinking and technical thought leadership that translates into significant business benefit

Collaborating to accomplish the agenda by working effectively across functions, geographies, and with remote internal and external partners

Coaching and mentoring others on the RDQ and supply chain teams

Driving a culture of technical curiosity and collaboration

This position leads the development and execution of Quality strategies, with input into the business unit strategies.

Key responsibilities of the position include :

Policy development and leading the introduction, maintenance and continuous improvement of Quality practices across the organization.

Lead execution of Quality strategies and programs to support the cross-category business unit Quality in the Business Unit (BU). BUs vary in complexity, size, scope and economic differences across our five categories (Biscuit, Chocolate, Gum & Candy, Powdered Beverages and Meals).

Responsible for quality programs for internal and external factories, driving revenue in the BU.

Internal factory Plant Quality Managers will report indirectly to this role.

This role will ensure that our products, facilities, processes and systems meet the required Company and legislative quality standards through the Quality Supply Chain Management System and Quality Policy implementation across the organization.

Champion the BU Quality Pillar / Lean Six Sigma initiatives for the function as part of the Lean Six Sigma Journey established across the company.

Act as Special Situations Management Team (SSMT) Coordinator and Technical Lead for the BU in supporting the SSMT Leader.

Leverage Center Quality resources in Food Safety, Sanitation, Audit and Supplier Quality against BU priorities.

Working with the Region Quality Leader and QSARA LT, ensure a robust pipeline of talent to develop and place in Quality assignments in the region.

Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders and customers at the BU level.

Responsible for BU Commercial Quality priorities (Quality practices from Plant through distribution to the Customer).

Job Specific Requirements :

Bachelor’s degree required with concentration in Chemistry, Food Science, Engineering or related field

Experience in Quality, Supply Chain and R&D (15 yrs as a minimum)

Knowledge of quality systems and policies, HACCP, ISO9001 / 22000, L6S (min 5 yrs)

Experience leading and working with cross-functional teams with strong people development skills (min 5 yrs)

Practical experience in Food and or Beverage categories, preferably high risk products, e.g. : Chocolate, Biscuits, cheese dairy, nuts (min 2+ yrs)

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

RegularCorporate Quality AssuranceProduct Quality, Safety and Compliance