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 quality in the factory and are responsible for meeting quality targets. You are fully responsible for the people, machinery and the identification and elimination of quality losses and problems in the department. You grow your team’s capabilities and coordinates departmental activities in accordance with corporate standards, local requirements and ISO standards. In this role, you report directly to the plant manager with dotted line responsibility to corporate quality.

How you will contribute

You will ensure that all quality objectives, goals and targets in the factory (including regional and global commitments) are met. You will develop and track your department’s budget and eliminate losses. With your team, you will conduct regular plan-do-act-check assessments to plan how targets will be met, executing the plan and periodically checking and taking action to stay on track. In addition, you will ensure that there is strict adherence with all appropriate laws, food safety quality standards and consumer requirements of all manufactured products and manage crisis situations internally and externally in ways that support the company’s image, policies and business. As a people leader, you are responsible for recruitment and structuring of the department to ensure there are sufficient resources to deliver on plant objectives, set and assess performance goals, and coach and mentor team members.

What you will bring

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

Relevant experience (operations, quality and/or R&D)Project management and managing multiple prioritiesCommercial strategy process, product/package development process, food safety, plant commercialization, ingredient and package technology and training and coaching technical materialCommunicating effectively and leading cross-functional teamsStatistical processes and problem-solving techniquesWorking with external manufacturing suppliers to ensure compliance to our policies and procedures and technical vendors to support complianceWorking with customers on quality related issues

More about this role:

+12 years of experience in quality assurance in the mass consumption or manufacturing sector.7 years as a manager, leading work teams within the plant, responsible for team development.Experience participating in internal audits, compliance with KPI's related to quality and safety.Budget planning and managementExcellent communication skills to maintain conversations with different business areas, transmitting proposals and business improvements.
 

Education / Certifications: bachelor's degree or university career completed

Languages: Advanced English is required for the position

Travel requirements: 2 times per year to another Mondelez locations

Work schedule: In office

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Wacam is Mondelēz International’s Latin America presence with more the 1700 wonderful people proudly representing a diversity of cultures and nationalities. Wacam includes 13 countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Bolivia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemela, El Salvador, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico. We make and distribute our global brands and local jewels such as Field, Club Social to over 190 million consumers. 

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, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

At Mondelez International we work under a hybrid model, in which our offices at WACAM offer us a space for connection, collaboration and co-creation, with attendance being subject to the needs of the teams themselves and/or the business.

Where permitted by internal policies and local laws, 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 accommodation.

Job Type

Regular

Supply Chain Quality Assurance

Product Quality, Safety and Compliance