Head of Procurement, SSA at Mondelez International

• In this role, you own the procurement agenda in your business unit and are the single point of contact for the business unit’s leadership team, which works to understand the business’ needs and translates them into effective procurement plans. Your deliverables include productivity, quality, service, cash and procurement process effectiveness, and supplier-enabled consumer solutions across innovation, sustainability and well-being. You may lead a team of procurement specialists and you will serve as a community leader for all procurement team members in your area of responsibility. In addition, you are also a member of the regional procurement leadership team.

How You Will Contribute

• You will work closely with business-unit executives to understand business needs and translate them into procurement plans that are executed at the business-unit level. In addition, you will communicate business unit expectations to procurement teams and ensure strategies reflect these expectations. You will be the single point of procurement contact for executives in the business unit; align business-unit resources to deliver procurement’s commitments [e.g., productivity, service, inflation mitigation, commodity price/risk management, cash, innovation, source-to-pay (STP) compliance BCP, and quality]; manage procurement specialists to implement the procurement agenda and STP process and engage local procurement team members, regardless of reporting line, by acting as a community leader, and supporting local procurement hiring/on-boarding, and; recruit, retain, and develop a team of direct and indirect reports.

What You Will Bring

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

• Procurement, working cross country and cross functionally
• Understanding how procurement brings financial value to the organization’s overall profit and loss
• Leading and developing teams in a multi-cultural environment
• Organizational agility, motivating others, influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with business unit leadership based on a deep understanding of business priorities