Plant Director

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

As a leader, you will create strong partnerships across the business to ensure delivery of our Supply Chain strategies in line with our Growth agenda. You will be responsible for leading, coaching, and developing our Plant multi-functional teams to identify best practices and improvements that will increase our Reliability, Productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Your goal will be to establish an Agile and synchronized Supply chain.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Work cross-functionally to develop and implement a 3-year strategic plan and annual operating plan, proactively identify key opportunities and link strategy to action to enable safe, reliable, flexible, and cost-efficient manufacturing capability that is a demonstrable competitive advantage to Mondelēz. Partner with multi-functional leads to define and meet Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Sustainability, and Engagement goals. Establish a strong governance to review & control operational performance and continuous Improvement plan and embed a zero-loss mindset across the site to deliver against best in class both internally and externally.
• Provide coaching towards implementation of IL6S-Integrated Lean 6 Sigma ways of working and phase journey as per masterplan and self-sufficient teams. Role model values and principles through effective coaching, mentoring, and development of the multi-functional team.
• Be accountable to protect the value of the assets through appropriate assessment of needs and planning of spend. Lead and be accountable for all Manufacturing standards, Governance, and Compliance requirements are in place, understood by all employees at the site, and regularly reviewed and monitored for compliance to policy.
• Lead and be accountable for Talent, Capabilities & Engagement for the Plant - identify and implement critical levers to attract, retain & develop critical talent and build capability at all levels, technical and behavioral, to build a sustainable workforce profile for the future.
• Interface with key stakeholders internally & externally to establish/maintain effective relationships, align priorities in order to deliver the company objectives, goals, and build the company equity and image.

What you will bring

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

• Significant experience in leading manufacturing performance in a fast-moving manufacturing environment with exceptional results (FMCG experience) with a career that has seen time at the Front Line and/or Manufacturing Manager level. Demonstrable and intuitive knowledge on fundamentals of good manufacturing practice, process improvement and optimization, reconfiguration and embedding of new or enhanced technology, managing costs and variance, motivators and engagement levers for shop floor based performance, experience in TPM-Total productive maintenance, 5S, LEAN, 6 Sigma tools and concepts.
• Excellent communication (verbal & written), coaching, and leadership skills in a team-based environment. Demonstrated abilities in analytics, problem-solving, and team building with a strong financial & business acumen, project management skills, and knowledge of industrial maintenance and manufacturing equipment.
• Experience in interfacing with the broader Supply Chain and Commercial functions and a high level of capability around managing relationships and outcomes with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Logistics, Customer Service, Category, and Sales.
• Spanish language fluent.
• English language fluent.
• Ideally experience in Food or FMCG industry; other industries in a manufacturing environment are welcome.
• Experience with Spanish unions negotiation.

The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.

No Relocation support available.

Business Unit Summary

At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like Cadbury, Milka and Alpen Gold chocolates, Oreo, belVita, LU and Tuc biscuits get safely into our customers' hands—and mouths. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.

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.

Job Type
Regular Manufacturing support Manufacturing