Procurement Operation Manager

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

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

In this role, you are the single point of contact for local leaders in a specific geographic or plant location. You manage the interactions between business stakeholders and sourcing teams and collaborate across the manufacturing, supply chain and the commercial business. You also manage the local implementation of regional and/or global projects.

How you will contribute

You will execute the daily procurement agenda by acting as the single point of contact for the procurement function at a site, in a country or country cluster, and will oversee the daily interaction with plants, supply chain, commercial teams, quality assurance, sourcing teams and suppliers. You will also deliver service-level targets by ensuring material availability, escalating when needed, and support business continuity planning implementation, activating when needed, support the execution of sourcing projects and execute sourcing/spot-buying or contracting activities as agreed with the accountable spend areas, and own the source-to-pay process compliance key indicators and take corrective action when necessary.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

• Procurement
• Communication and interpersonal skills that help you be proactive and manage stakeholders
• Problem solving to ensure timely resolution of challenges
• Customer service orientation
• Working well under pressure, managing multiple priorities, dealing with ambiguity, and the willingness and ability to learn

More about this role

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Job specific requirements:

• Strong Motivation to get results, ability to move quickly and shift back-and-forth amongst various direct procurement related topics & issues.
• Problem solving ability: define the problem; determine the cause of the problem; identify the right stakeholders and find a solution.
• Building strong business relationships with stakeholders: good working relationship with stakeholders e.g. MM, Plant, Accounts Payable, Legal, Finance...
• Good knowledge of procurement in large international companies.
• Good experience in Food Industry, Supply Chain, Operations.
• Good knowledge of manufacturing operations, models and working methods.

Education / Certifications:

• Engineering Degree, Masters in Supply Chain or equivalent
• 7/10 years or more experience in Supply Chain and Procurement

Travel requirements:

Some travel requirements across GTA

Work schedule:

Monday to Friday - Hybrid

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.