Scientist Ii

**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.**

Working as part of a cross functional team, you deliver the RDQ activities required to complete new product development, portfolio maintenance and/or productivity projects with an emphasis on meeting the desired consumer experience.

**How you will contribute**

With the support and guidance of a manager, you will organize and execute projects in line with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You will plan and conduct pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements and development activities (e.g. product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation etc.). You will also write technical reports that will require the analysis and interpretation of results and that lead to conclusions and recommendations and create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications.

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

- Food science, science, or engineering ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods market
- Working on teams and independently with the guidance of a manager
- Prioritizing and managing activities
- Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently
- Communicating effectively verbally and in writing, including technical writing
- Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities

**What you need to know about this position**:
This position requires a detailed understanding of the development process and awareness of enabling technologies to contribute to project objectives and outcomes.

This role is responsible for independently planning and delivering technical tracks within projects, also providing a linkage to cross functional teams.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Project Planning**
- Analyse project objectives and develop technical plan to deliver (tasks, timeline, budget, risk management plan, interlinkages)
- Prepares technical feasibility assessment based on accessing global, external and own technical know-how and supplemented with further research and/or consultation
- Identifies resource needs required to deliver assigned projects
- Independently prepares detailed project plans, including risk matrix, contingency plans and design of experiments

**Program/Project Leadership & Execution**
- Executes multiple projects according to developed project plans
- Identify and remove project hurdles and execute out contingency plans, manage stakeholders and information flow
- Act as project manager, in some cases, and coordinate with other functions as well as external resources/partners and ensures plan and resource (material, manpower, etc.) availability to support project objectives
- Represent R&D in cross functional team if appointed R&D track lead. Seek inputs from other R&DQ colleagues and ensure R&D track is managed and aligned with total project plan

**Product Specification & Regulatory**
- Prepare all necessary technical documents & specifications
- Review and revise technical specifications to maintain accuracy of specification
- Lead in product assessment against regulations, intellectual property and corporate standards

**Organisation Excellence & Development**
- Provide technical coaching to junior staff where applicable
- Seek to improve self and team’s technical depth
- Lead the adaptation of new and existing technologies to increase team’s technical capabilities
- Contribute to a create a successful team environment

**What extra ingredients you will bring**:
**Organisation Excellence & Development**
- Provide technical coaching to junior staff where applicable
- Seek to improve self and team’s technical depth
- Lead the adaptation of new and existing technologies to increase team’s technical capabilities
- Contribute to a create a successful team environment
- Diversity in thoughts & perspectives

**Education / Certifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Food science/Technology and/or Food engineering
- Desired minimum of 5-6 years experience in a technical project management capacity
- Competent computer skills and systems knowledge

**Job specific requirements**:
Conduct Pilot validation studies, scale up & commercialization, Process understanding & modifications, Specification creation & management of specs & data, Cross functional interactions, Consumer understanding & Science behind it, Regulatory understanding of various regions in AMEA, Global & Regional interfacing, Agility & Technical Depth, Presentation skills

**Travel requirements**:
LimitTravel within India & across AMEA for implementation of projects in key markets

**Work schedule**

Regular 5 Days working, based in Thane, Maharashtra.

**Business Unit Summary**:
**Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz I