Senior Scientist I - R&D Food Product Developer

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.

As a NA Confections R&D food scientist, you'll be a key champion of the brand’s consumer experience, ensuring the iconic line‑up of candy, delight and captivate our consumers every day. You'll focus on driving product quality and consistency, while adapting to evolving consumer preferences and production constraints. Working with a fast-paced cross‑functional team, you’ll have a chance to be at the forefront of key efforts across innovation, quality improvements, capacity expansions and sustainability for the brand.

If you're passionate about bringing your scientific perspective to trusted brands such as Halls. This is a great opportunity to learn Over-the
-Counter drug, and food Dietary supplements. Working on this team gives hands‑on exposure and leadership opportunity to own the end‑to‑end development and launch process. Through this process you lead conversations and decision making with a cross‑functional team. This is your chance to make a real impact!

As a NA Confections R&D food scientist, you'll be a key champion of the brand’s consumer experience, ensuring the iconic line‑up of candy, delight and captivate our consumers every day. You'll focus on driving product quality and consistency, while adapting to evolving consumer preferences and production constraints. Working with a fast-paced cross‑functional team, you’ll have a chance to be at the forefront of key efforts across innovation, quality improvements, capacity expansions and sustainability for the brand.

If you're passionate about bringing your scientific perspective to trusted brands such as Halls. This is a great opportunity to learn Over-the
-Counter drug, and food Dietary supplements. Working on this team gives hands‑on exposure and leadership opportunity to own the end‑to‑end development and launch process. Through this process you lead conversations and decision making with a cross‑functional team. This is your chance to make a real impact!

You will work independently and with a cross‑functional team to plan, lead and coordinate technical projects in line with R&D, regulatory, marketing and manufacturing requirements. You will effectively communicate status & risks and plan, lead, & coordinate pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements. In addition, you will plan, lead, & coordinate development activities (e.g. product shelf‑life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation.

etc.). To provide direction for product development, you will use digital simulation models to understand and interpret consumer insights and commercial information. In this role, you will create and maintain accurate consumer‑led specifications and be responsible for stakeholder management and influencing decisions based on conclusions made from analysis and interpretation of results.

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

• Leading and supporting R&D and cross‑functional project teams
• Handling multiple priorities at once
• Proactively identifying technical or business problems and creating and implementing solutions
• Applying technical curiosity and understanding to interpret and analyze data
• Driving consumer‑centricity as the focus of everything we do
• Effectively influencing cross‑functional stakeholders verbally and in writing, including writing technical report conclusions
• Coaching and mentoring others

The candidate will be responsible for delivering a variety of projects within the North America Confections portfolio (Halls Over‑the‑Counter Drug and Dietary Supplement Products, with potential to work on Sour Patch Kids, & Swedish Fish), such as maintaining and optimizing products, supporting capacity expansion efforts, and delivering against…