Senior Group Leader Consumer Science Amea Bgcm

**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 manage technical and scientific professionals to provide consumer science support to projects and programs and develop the technical content for strategic plans and initiatives.

**How you will contribute**

You will support projects or programs (including research design) to meet objectives, produce quality, actionable data and make recommendations to ensure the projects or programs are completed to the required standards and within the agreed to timetables. In this role, you will help develop departmental plans and budgets in line with corporate requirements, direct qualitative and quantitative consumer research, ensure there is a consumer-centric approach to all programs and projects, and partner with stakeholders (including R&D and commercial/insights) to secure resources. You will also manage and coach staff to help them understand consumer science and hone their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

**What you will bring**

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

- A qualification in food science, engineering, psychology, sociology, food technology, food chemistry or similar area
- Consumer science including several years managing complex programs
- Managing a team of professionals
- Leading, Influencing and interacting cross-functionally at multiple organizational levels
- Partnering with clients and/or stakeholders
- Communicating and influencing skills and working collaboratively internally and externally in an ever changing commercial and technical environment
- Critical thinking and thought leadership to deliver complex, ambiguous programs

**More about this role
**What you need to know about this position**:

- Leads and manages a team of scientists and technicians at several organizational levels; does not manage other managers
- Responsible for the quality of work done by the team and directs activities of professionals to deliver against organizational and strategic goals
- Develops staff to translate technical information to non-technical business partners
- Prioritize and delegate the work assignments to colleagues in order to deliver agreed annual plans
- Assumes leadership role of the team and builds linkages and establishes relationships with cross-functional partners
- Integrates input from other functional areas to develop goals and programs
- Oversee single or multi stage medium to large scoped projects, ensuring they deliver to the required standards and agreed timescales, including overseeing the design of research to meet objectives, producing good quality, actionable data and responsible for the recommendations coming from the research
- Responsible for a departmental budget including development, monitoring and delivery in line with corporate requirements
- Oversee the execution of Consumer Centricity work including the design of the research program and all executional elements and subsequent analysis and reporting of results
- Effectively partner with stakeholders (R&D and Commercial) ensuring that the work undertaken by staff is in line with the strategic priorities of the business
- This role requires a high degree of autonomy developing departmental plans and influences direction and strategic goals of the function

**What extra ingredients you will bring**:

- Role model leadership behaviours and deputize for senior leader as required. It is viewed as a key partner to R&D leaders
- Contribute to the Consumer Science Team goals by participating or leading teams where new methodologies and capability are evaluated, proposed and implemented
- Seeks improvement on existing methods in line with good scientific principles
- Can effectively make a business case for resources required and find strategies to secure those resources.

**Education / Certifications**:

- Degree holder in Food Science and Technology &/or related programs such as Statistics, Marketing, Economics or Social Sciences

**Job specific requirements**:

- Minimum of 8 years of professional consumer science experience in research and insights); and managing a team and potentially remote management as well

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
**At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broad range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.**:
**We have a rich portfolio of strong brands globally and locally including many household names such as **_Oreo _**, **_belVita _**and **_LU _**biscuits; **_Cadbury Dairy Milk _**, **_Milka _**and **_Toblerone _**chocolate; **_Sour Patch Kids _**candy and **_Trident _**gum. We are proud to