Research Principal

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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.

You are a recognized technical leader in areas of critical importance to organization. You set the technical vision and strategy in your area of expertise and communicate it at the most senior levels for organizational alignment and action.

How you will contribute

You will use your considerable technical knowledge and expertise to identify, develop and create new business opportunities and to identify, define and solve complex business problems. As a leader on complex projects and/or scientific activities, you will organize, execute, and interpret assignments to yield outstanding results and impact business goals, and form multidisciplinary project teams to solve complex technical problems or to explore the use of technology to meet business goals. As a technical leader in your field, you will maintain your knowledge of developments inside and outside the company that are pertinent to the job through continuous education and training and take new research ideas and findings, and communicate and "sell" them to the organization for growth, quality or margin improvement. As a people leader, you will mentor and guide the work of junior team members and ensure the technical execution and quality of their work, and sponsor and champion external and internal research and fundamental knowledge building to influence future business development strategies.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
* Technical and courageous leadership
* Ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness through discovery of highly advanced technologies to deliver transformative, integrated technologies for a competitive advantage
* Exceptional communication and influencing

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:
This role is one of our senor technical experts leading R&D to achieve (COMPANY NAME)'s vision to be the Global Snacking Leader, winning in Chocolate, Biscuits & Baked Snacks.
· Senior member of our Technical Leadership Council,
o Coaching and developing the technical talent in the company
o Leveraging technical foresights to drive our technical agenda and technical excellence within the company. Includes supply chain resilience activities.
o Leads discovery level projects using scientific fundamentals to build our capability and make strong business decisions
o Driving excellence as a subject matter expert
· Drives our Mindful Snacking and nutrition agenda through the application of expertise in proteins and polymers as they relate to bioactivity, nutritional value, physicochemical/ functional/ organoleptic properties of foods
· Influence and execute programs against our Sustainability agenda thought a strong understanding of ingredient supply chains from farm to conversion, including process interaction during ingredient manufacture and during product conversion. Includes plant based and diary industries.
· Must maintain an external lens bringing in new opportunities and scientific approaches as well as engaging in both strategic pre-competitive and development opportunities to build competitive advantage

What extra ingredients you will bring:
Technical Expertise:
Scientific-technological areas
* Molecular biology, Organic chemistry, biochemistry
* Proteomics/ Protein Chemistry - Impact of the above unit operations: how do they transform the ingredient and its functional and consumer led contribution to the food matrix including nutritional contributions and metabolic pathways.
* Sustainability via Cradle-to-factory-gate supply chain for significant ingredient clusters (e. g. where grown, where processed, vendor landscape, cost structure, supply opportunities and risks);
* Production of the raw crops / agricultural aspects (where grown ? what drives characteristics / functionality / quality? sustainability aspects)
* Unit operations in raw crop processing and how they transform / impact all aspects of functionality of the ingredient (namely thermal and mechanical unit operations)
* Soft matter physics as far as they are relevant for food matrices including, e. g. concepts of multi-phase dispersed systems; state and phase transitions
* Frequently used unit operations in ingredients and food manufacturing, e. g. milling, homogenization, drying, membrane separations, thermal treatments, mixing
* Relations between ingredient functionality, product design, and consumer experience.

Leadership Skills
* Technical rigor, e. g. hypothesizing, testing hypotheses
* Future oriented mindset / methodologies (trend research, scenario analysis, extensive experience in strategy development)
* Develop landscapes of complex topics (e. g. sustainability, emerging technologies) and socialize in a simple manner to drive decision making
* Creativity which results in novel and useful solutions
* Track record of landing technology / product in the business and / or in the market.
* (Recognized external leadership) Has external network (academics, vendors, industry organizations) and interacts successfully with partners (i. e. guide / influence) namely in relation to low TRL technologies (academics, research institutes, start-ups)
* Interact successfully with internal partners (who often have short term focus)
* Acumen to enable consumer / business oriented decision making
* Mentoring / coaching of colleagues with strong scientific / technical background and limited experience of working in business environment.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broad range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands globally and locally including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the top position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy and the second top position in gum.

Our 80,000 makers and bakers are located in more than 80 countries and we sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. Our people are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen-and happen fast.

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

Research & Nutrition Science

Science & Engineering