R&d Biscuits

**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.**

**How you will contribute**

You will plan, lead and manage complex technically focused projects while using your technical expertise to guide, direct and influence activities lead by others. To ensure the right solutions are developed, you will use consumer knowledge and your technical expertise to identify future opportunities and to execute programs with technical rigor. This role will require you to work with cross-functional partners develop and align resource and budget needs for projects. You will be responsible for the technical outcomes of developments related to evaluating new ingredients, formulas, recipes and processes and understanding the impact on scale up between laboratory and production facilities. You will also be responsible for quantifying the technical risks to make recommendations and influence stakeholders. As a people leader, you will mentor and coach others to grow their technical talent.

**What you will bring**

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

- Using your excellent technical expertise to set and deliver the RDQ agenda
- Effectively influencing category leads (e.g. vice presidents)
- Using critical thinking and thought leadership to ensure that solutions are developed for complex issues
- Working collaboratively in a fast-paced commercial and technical environment
- Coaching and mentoring others

**More about this role**

L ead the development of product solutions to sustain competitive advantage for our Biscuit & Baked Goods brands and deliver the innovation pipeline for MENAP and SSA. This role is a key member of the R&D AMEA regional Biscuit & Baked Goods Leadership Team. Leading a team of R&D professionals in product development, Identifying and prioritizing development activities for the Biscuit and Baked Goods. Lead teams that deliver R&D activities needed to complete new product development, renovation, quality improvement, and business continuity that develop portfolios for short, medium and long term (always securing the desired consumer experience) **.**

**What you need to know about this position**:
**You are **accountable for delivering and building R&D technical programs. **You will work with a cross-functional partner to define, initiate and lead teams to successfully deliver business goals using technical rigor, consumer centricity and best practices while effectively allocating resources and prioritizing workloads. **Influencing skills are importan **t in this role because you will use them to educate business stakeholders about technical risks, ensuring mitigation plans, 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 leader, **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’ desires and needs. As a people leader, you recruit, retain and develop a team of direct and indirect reports to ensure highest team performance, mentor and coach your team and others to grow capability and support career development.

**Education / Certifications**:

- Bachelor degree of Food Science, Chemical Engineering

**Job specific requirements**:
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge in the context of high growth Business Units:

- 15 years of relevant technical experience
- Dynamic leader, 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 with strong efficiency
- Being a champion of consumer needs and technical rigor
- Fostering collaborative mindset
- Functional R&D lead in a fast-growing BU
- Succeeding in a fast-moving consumer goods environment

**Work schedule: Full Time**

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
**Mondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes,Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls c