Project Manager

**Job Description**:
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelez International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking.
Make It Matter.
You are a specialist in a process, workstream or area in Mondelez International Business Services, working to support impeccable service operations.
**How You Will Contribute**:
- Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline a work plan.
- Establish a work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
- Implement a project communication plan.
- Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.
- Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of information, while providing consistency in content and "look and feel" across the organization.
- Ensure that project goals are in line with business objectives and that project goals are achieved.
- Assign duties and responsibilities to project personnel and define the scope of their authority.
- Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
- Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
- Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
- Benchmark project management performance continuously to identify the potential for improvements and increase capability in project and portfolio management.
- Determine and define project scope and objectives
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
- Track project costs to meet budget
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
- Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
- Monitor progress and adjust as needed
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
**Primary Contacts (Stakeholders)**:
- Project sponsor and key stakeholders
- Project team/staff (including designated users or customers)
- Business unit (BU) management and executives
- Enterprise architects
- Subject matter experts (such as in security or compliance)
- Infrastructure and operations staff
- Business analysts
- User/customer product owner
- External service providers' and consultancies' project manager(s)
- C-Levels
**Job Requirements**:**Education**:Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems (or a related field), engineering, project management or general business management.
Project manager training and certification desirable.
**Experience**:
- Five or more years of Supply Chain and/or Sales experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving
- A minimum of two years of demonstrated competency involving the execution of multiple projects or a large project with end-to-end scope
- Three or more years of BU or BU-facing experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving
- Experience in leading a team
- Experience and ability in using "soft skills" or "people skills"
**Knowledge and Skills**:
- Ability to lead and motivate others; ability to empathize and knowledge of personality types.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies (PMP, Toll Gate, PRINCE2, Agile approaches).
- Must have at least, one or more certifications (PMP, Toll Gate, PRINCE2, Agile approaches)
- Sensitivity to working in a political environment and to interacting with senior leadership.
- Knowledge of project-planning tools.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
(English/Portuguese)
- Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
- Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills.
This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
- Good understanding of current and emerging technologies, and of how other enterprises are using them to drive digital business.
- Ability to develop and execute a project resource plan that ensures that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right t