Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

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

You help implement the operational excellence program in a specific function and/or for cross-functional continuous improvement (CI) projects. You are not only responsible for applying CI tools and techniques for problem solving and performance improvement but more importantly, you help employees improve their CI skills and build their self-sufficiency.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Provide training on CI tools and techniques to help drive teams through CI cycles. You will also coach employees to help them achieve their targets
• Identify process improvement needs with department leads, facilitate sessions and support execution of newly established improvements
• Once improvements are done, validate outcome benefits and support creation of new standards and qualification of members into new working processes
• Benchmark externally, ensuring where relevant that best practice and new tools are deployed in collaboration with internal partners

What you will bring

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

• Experience implementing CI processes (e.g. TPM for manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma in the consumer goods industry)
• Strong facilitation and communication skills
• Experience in change management processes
• Logical thinking and capacity to influence
• Results oriented and prepared to deal with ambiguity
• Experience such as: continuous improvement manager, team leader roles, area manager

More about this role

Key Responsibilities:

• Digitalization:
  • Collaborate with the regional MTI team on Integrated Digital Factory/Shoplogix initiatives, including health checks and expansion projects across Canadian plants.
  • Manage the Solvace platform for the Canada BU, ensuring optimal performance, rolling out new modules, and providing coaching to plant teams.
• Excellence in IL6S (Integrated Lean Six Sigma):
  • Lead the Canada BU Education & Training (E&T) pillar, guiding a team of indirect reports in the planning, execution, and assessment of E&T programs.
  • Develop and refine technical work process standards for IL6S and E&T, tailoring them for production line implementation to improve performance and reduce costs.
  • Coach plant leadership teams through IL6S phases and AM steps, ensuring compliance with Mondelēz methodology and facilitating necessary changes to achieve desired results.
  • Serve on the Canada IL6S Steering Committee, collaborating with pillar and department leads to advance manufacturing excellence.
• Business Analytics:
  • Lead the governance of Global Efficiency (GE) for the Canada BU, managing the masterplan, ensuring consistent glidepaths, and conducting regular gap analyses with plant contacts.
  • Leverage MARCO and other business analytics tools to benchmark performance across SQCDSM indicators, coaching plants to maximize platform utilization.
  • Drive AC target ingestion into MARCO for key indicators for Canadian sites (kg/HW, GE, CU).
  • Provide timely and consistent executive reports on Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) and Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Engagement & Team Management:
  • Manage two SCE student direct reports, including future hiring and placements, focusing on addressing top BU losses in GE and yield. Coach students on FI structured problem-solving tools to eliminate targeted losses.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to highlight BU excellence through IL6S newsletters, regional reporting platforms, and engagement-driving competitions.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• At lease 3 years Manufacturing experience with strong preference for demonstrated digital and leadership exposure.

Travel requirements:

• Travel among multiple facilities within GTA required.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

RegularProcess excellenceBusiness Capability