The Senior Manager & People Lead will develop and execute the R&D HR strategy, focusing on talent management, organizational design, and driving a culture of growth and engagement.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
As the Senior Manager & People Lead, Human Resources, you will define end-to-end People strategy for our R&D team, specifically NA R&D and Global Quality. You will own the execution of this strategy, in partnership with the Sr Director, R&D People Lead and SVP, Global People Lead. You will be a trusted partner to our R&D business leaders across the organization and support our HR business strategies and HR operating plans to drive business performance.
Hybrid: 3 days a week in East Hanover, NJ Office
How you will contribute:
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
Qualifications:
The base salary range for this position is $137,300 to $188,825; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
HR Strategy
Human Resources
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
As the Senior Manager & People Lead, Human Resources, you will define end-to-end People strategy for our R&D team, specifically NA R&D and Global Quality. You will own the execution of this strategy, in partnership with the Sr Director, R&D People Lead and SVP, Global People Lead. You will be a trusted partner to our R&D business leaders across the organization and support our HR business strategies and HR operating plans to drive business performance.
Hybrid: 3 days a week in East Hanover, NJ Office
How you will contribute:
- People Strategy: Partner on organization design and implementation of people plans, function transformation agendas, accelerating core capability development in line with strategic plans, while enabling a growth culture that translates into employee engagement. Support business transformation initiatives from a people change perspective.
- Talent: Support the development and execution of a talent strategy, encompassing early career, experienced hire, and internal talent pipelines. Drive employee education/awareness on career paths within the team and equip managers and colleagues to have powerful development conversations all year around. Lead and advise on talent management practices related to workforce planning, talent acquisition strategy planning, leadership development, employee development, career and succession planning and talent mobility. Partner with leaders and the Talent Acquisition COE to attract high-caliber talent and onboarding into the business.
- Capability: Partner with members of the Leadership teams and internal capability teams to support the execution of our functional and leadership capability development agenda.
- Culture: Co-own culture with the business leaders. Partner on change initiatives and leads assigned projects in support of mid to short term business priorities. Leverage people analytics to drive Insights to Action, with a focus on driving retention and engagement. Coach leaders to drive actions against engagement survey results and foster a culture of inclusivity. Actively own and drive a robust communications strategy to support the engagement agenda, leveraging key forums like Town Halls, Bi-monthly Newsletters, Development Weeks, etc.
- People Processes: Partner with leaders to execute our 5 key people processes in the year: Objective-Setting, Strategic Talent Calibration Reviews, Mid-Year Review, Year-End Reviews, and Compensation Planning. Support work on overhead management, in partnership with business leaders.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
- Strong business acumen and leadership in HR. Can partner and influence on strategic priorities, with an active curiosity, insight orientation and external perspective about people and business performance
- Ability to build HR operating plans, people/capability roadmaps to enable people and business growth
- Broad generalist HR skills across a range of populations with increasing responsibility ideally within FMCG/CPG
- Ability to develop strong partnerships and coach senior function leaders
- Ability to create and lead change strategy and complex transformation
- Ability to engage, inspire, and influence people
- Strong action orientation and drive for results
- Comfort managing multiple priorities at a given time
- Future focused, thinking ahead and anticipating opportunities, leverage an outside in perspective through understanding of market trends
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree required in Business Administration, Human Resources or related field
- 10 or more years of HR experience, including at least 5 years of business partnering and working with leadership teams
- Experience supporting global, corporate functions is ideal
- Must have experience with driving a winning growth culture, leading change management, supporting organizational design, and building talent strategies for transformation
- Previous Consumer Packed Goods (CPG) experience in Research & Development is strongly preferred
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills, with the ability to relate to people in all parts of the organization at varying levels
- Strong influencing skills
- Excellent communication skills (written & oral)
- Ability to develop strong partnerships with senior leaders
- Future-focused, thinking ahead and anticipating risks and opportunities
The base salary range for this position is $137,300 to $188,825; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
HR Strategy
Human Resources
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