Sr. Packaging Technologist I

**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.**

Working as part of a cross functional team, you lead RDQ activities to complete packaging design and packaging deployment for innovation/growth projects and productivity projects across multiple geographies with an emphasis on delivering the desired consumer experience.

**How you will contribute**

You will independently coordinate technical work for projects in line with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks, and coordinate projects to determine appropriate packaging specification information using sampling and supplier management and pilot-plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. In this role, you will also develop activities such as packaging design and specifications, scale up, commissioning, etc., and plan for the effective use of resources including the use of external agencies and suppliers. To succeed in this role, you will use your understanding of equipment design and manufacturing processes to ensure that packaging specifications are determined with excellence. You will be accountable for stakeholder management and influencing decisions based on conclusions derived from the analysis and interpretation of results; develop and leverage connections both internally and with the external technical community; and create intellectual property to drive competitive advantage.

**What you will bring**

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

- Packaging development and/or packaging deployment, ideally within fast moving consumer goods or consumer packaging goods environment
- Leading teams and influencing cross-functional teams
- Planning and delivering multiple priorities
- Proactively identifying complex technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
- Influencing senior and cross-functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical reports
- Coaching and mentoring others
- Championing for consumer needs
- Technical curiosity and collaborative mindset

**More about this role**

**What you need to know about this position**:
The role works closely with Marketing, Customer Development and the Supply Chain/ Manufacturing network to ensure that the business goals are achieved at minimum cost & complexity following appropriate processes. The role ensures that Insights are translated effectively during the development for all packs to meet the businesses in-market quality strategies versus competition from a consumer quality and marketing claims perspective, as well as competitive advantage. In this regard, it is intended that the job holder creates an optimum working relationship with the Global packaging team.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manages/leads project teams for large to major-sized projects, including those with multiple business partners. Project scope could involve several sub-projects.
- Responsibility/measurement is individual results/performance, but may also include team goals.

**Skills/Accomplishments/Experiences**:

- Demonstrates excellent category technology skills and is beginning to develop an area of in-depth technical knowledge
- Able to organize cross-functional project teams and develop plans to execute strategies or goals with minimum of guidance
- Strong stakeholder management especially influencing skills in dealing with business partners and the upper management (Director / Sr Director / VP)

**Education / Certifications**:

- Bachelor degree in Engineering (mechanical / chemical / materials science / packaging)

**Job specific requirements**:

- With 5-8 years’ experience in R&D packaging and/or relevant experience preferably within FMCG global environment
- Expert in one or more packaging capability areas (e.g. materials, innovation, engineering, design)

**Work schedule**:

- Flexible given the global stakeholders based in other region/country with different time zone

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
**Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International’s Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as **_Oreo _**and **_belVita _**biscuits, **_Kinh Do _**mooncakes, **_Cadbury, Cadbur