Head of R&d Western Europe Packaging

**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.**

You ensure that technical, scientific and business programs are completed on time and on budget. In addition, you manage the talent in your assigned area and jointly set the direction for your region and the associated business units. As a member of the management team, you interact with all levels of clients and technology organizations.

**How you will contribute**

In this role, you define and lead the packaging development plan in your region and its associated business units. This includes leading innovation, quality improvement, brand maintenance and technical services programs. You will use your area’s strategy and translate it into technical plans, platforms, and programs and deliver on associated business budget targets and plans. You will offer consumer insights to provide input to programs and to help define a technical strategy. You are the single point of contact for packaging on the regional team and prioritize packaging resources to develop and execute global and regional innovation and renovation programs. As a people leader, you will coach employees and develop them to build the talent pipeline. You will also ensure there is a robust intellectual property strategy in place, manage compliance to Mondelēz-relevant policies and government regulations. As a member of the global packaging leadership team, you will also develop the technical program strategy.

**What you will bring**

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

- Extensive experience in R&D packaging or a relevant function with a successful track record of people and project management
- Leading multi-functional and multi-cultural teams
- Leveraging internal and external resources and working in a highly matrixed environment
- Formulating strategy, planning, problem solving, project management while operating in a dynamic and outcome-oriented environment

**En savoir plus sur ce poste**

**Ce que vous devez savoir à propos de cette fonction**:
As a manager you will be responsible for leading packaging innovation, renovation and productivity projects. You will foster collaborative internal and external partnerships to enable the European packaging team to identify, imagine, create, validate, and transition packaging solutions. You will be driving innovation and therefore have a great mix of technical and strategic skills, and the ability to perform while dealing with ambiguity. You have an entrepreneurial mindset, and inspire senior management and teams.

You will be accountable for the packaging breakthrough innovation end-to-end processes for a full portfolio from insights gathering to opportunity identification, exploration, validation, and transition into the company. It means also a business awareness in terms of providing the best solution with a minimum cost, manage the communication with the global teams (procurement, marketing), suppliers and stakeholders.

In order to be successful you have a previous European business exposition and you’re a mature team manager with an open minded approach.
- Gestion d'équipe
- Gestion budget
- Gestion de marques emblématiques : Lu, Belin, etc...
- Enjeu environnemental

**Formation / Diplômes**:

- Bac+5 minimum / Diplôme d'ingénieur
- Minimum 4/5 ans d'expérience dans le management

**Conditions spécifiques à remplir**:

- Savoir innover
- Savoir gérer une équipe
- Avoir un bon relationnel
- Bonnes compétences business et techniques
- Notions de vent
- Excellent niveau d'Anglais requis (Français non essentiel)
- Bon esprit d'équipe

**Horaires de travail**:

- 50% de télétravail

The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
**Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We are leading the future of snacking with mouth-watering iconic brands such as **_Oreo _**, **_belVita _**, **_LU _**and **_Ritz _**biscuits; **_Cadbury Dairy Milk _**, **_Green & Blacks _**, **_Milka _**and **_Toblerone _**chocolate; **_Philadelphia _**and **_Dairylea _**cheese; and **_Maynards Bassetts _**, **_Trebor _**and **_Trident _**gums. Our more than 80,000 colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.**:
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