Digital Innovations Initiative Analyst

Mondelez International
Easthanover, NJ
26 Apr 2024

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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You are part of a team responsible for experimenting with cutting-edge technologies, delivering solutions by testing and learning and developing strong partnerships to enable growth through innovation and agile methodologies.

How you will contribute

You will conduct innovative pilot projects to drive disruptive ideas across the organization, using the learnings from these projects to inform decisions on whether to incorporate them as a portfolio project or to introduce them as a new proof of concept. Working with other Mondelz teams, you will get to experiment with cutting-edge technologies to build a strong pipeline of ideas to pursue. In addition, you will get to bring the outside in by building relationships with start-ups and building your knowledge of actual proof-of-concept cases and lead end-to-end product management activities after the proof of concept has been successfully adopted.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
  • Project management including knowledge of Agile
  • Technical expertise and a passion for innovation
  • Technical and business acumen to evaluate opportunities with internal and external partners
  • Understanding a variety of disruptive technology products and services
  • Machine learning/artificial intelligence programming languages
  • The start-up landscape
  • Familiarity with the fast-moving consumer goods or related sector
  • Driving for results and Analytical skills

The role calls for experimenting cutting edge technologies while at the same time build strong partnership with the North America Business Units involving:
  • Being accountable for bringing 'outside in' for the BU in shape of startup's and real POV cases
  • Build a strong partnership with BU and build a strong pipeline of ideas to pursue
  • Being accountable for scoping, aligning, adopting and leveraging technology for respective learn & pilots
  • Strong Project Management and Technical Understanding to quickly execute these initiatives
THE KEY RESPONSIBILITES FOR THE ROLE:
  • Understand business priorities, identify innovation opportunities, help analyzing business benefits, evaluating ROI and work on evaluating initiatives to develop digital agenda
  • Leverage technical capabilities (Acumen) to effectively work with delivery partners to rapidly deliver scalable Initiatives.
  • Work with Key Stakeholders to define requirements, commence POCs/Pilots, lead UAT, launch products and think scale across other regions
  • Communicate the benefits, and champion innovation initiatives throughout IBS and the entire organization.
  • Define and track metrics to evaluate success of initiatives.
  • Expected to roll up sleeves and develop pilots and documents as applicable
  • Apply Agile methodology to quickly and effectively build a case to show value
  • Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately
  • Closely collaborate with the Mondelez Digital Services ( MDS ) teams and also business teams to determine the hypothesis being tested
  • Conduct regular checkin's with stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder's needs and requirements continuously in view
  • Business acumen and learning agility are must need skills
  • Support in Handover / execution of deployment of proven initiatives to scale. Closely collaborate with deployment teams as appropriate
  • Take initiative to improve one's own work and technical knowledge
  • Keep oneself up to date with the latest in technologies and identify ideas / opportunities that could be leveraged for the organization

THE KEY EXPERIENCE FOR THE ROLE:
  • Passionate about innovations, digital technologies and possess technical acumen to evaluate new opportunities with internal and external partners.
  • Ability to understand a variety of disruptive technology products and services that will guide Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing (digital & eCom)
  • Experience in digital technologies such as Block chain, Artificial Intelligence/ML, AR/VR, eCommerce, and experience in working with startup and innovation incubator ecosystem.
  • Proven track record of learning new skills proactively and applied it to business opportunities
  • Understand the impact of data and digital technologies in the context of business
  • Experience in a major CPG or parallel industry
  • Experience in design thinking preferred
  • 2-5 Years work experience preferred
  • Bachelor's Degree Required, MBA

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce 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.

Mondelz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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 for assistance.

Where permitted by applicable law, new hires are required to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment by their date of hire, unless they are granted a medical,religious,or other accommodation as required by law. You may review the Mondelz COVID vaccination policy by visiting the US careers website athttps://www.mondelezinternational.com/United-States.ThisCOVID-19 vaccine mandate does not apply to severalU.S. statesthat do not permit certain vaccination mandates,including, but not limited to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.

Job Type

Regular

Digital Strategy & Innovation

Technology & Digital
  • ID: #39490204
  • State: New Jersey Easthanover 07936 Easthanover USA
  • City: Easthanover
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-04-26
  • Deadline: 2022-06-24
  • Category: Sales