Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
Cares deeply for our people, fostering a supportive and collaborative environment that empowers them to perform at their best. Ensures the safety and well-being of all employees as a top priority while driving excellence in the processing and packaging of our diverse product lines. Leads the team in delivering high-quality production results by optimizing resources—materials, equipment, and people—through the principles of Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing. Champions a culture of continuous conversion cost reduction, balancing efficiency with quality and sustainability. This role is fully responsible for embedding Autonomous Maintenance practices to ensure sustainable performance and long-term reliability.
'0. Safety and Well-being
Ensure the safety of all employees within the manufacturing areas and across the entire plant.
Promote a culture where safety is a daily priority by embedding it in all activities and communication.
Ensure full compliance with Czech Safety Legal requirements and MDLZ HSE Standards, implementing measures to uphold these in manufacturing areas.
Deliver the most cost-effective production process in line with plans set by the Plant Director, ensuring adherence to the production schedule.
Optimize resources to achieve maximum customer satisfaction by meeting or exceeding targets for line productivity, efficiency, yield, rework, overweight, scrap, staffing, and production volume.
Ensure all products meet MDLZ specifications, complying with quality standards such as HACCP, GMP, and safety regulations.
Lead corrective actions for deviations and reinforce safe, high-quality practices across production teams.
Act as a safety leader, supporting HSE programs and fostering safe behavior among team members.
Drive productivity and Continuous Improvement (CI) projects to sustainably reduce conversion costs.
Collaborate with Business Development, RD&Q, and other functions to support new products, processes, promotions, and simplification initiatives.
Lead and develop the Manufacturing Leadership Team, ensuring clear guidance and career growth opportunities.
Build a team culture aligned with Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing principles, focusing on collaboration, accountability, and performance.
Act as the primary interface with other functions, including HSE, Quality, BD&E, IL6S, and Finance.
Own the conversion cost budget, ensuring adherence to approved figures and transparent reporting of deviations to MEU.
Track and manage conversion process KPIs, while forecasting capacity and workforce needs for accurate production planning.
Collaborate with the Plant Controller on capital approval requests and new product cost estimates.
Deliver production according to the defined plan, ensuring alignment with conversion costs, loss rates, and approved recipes.
Adjust production output through labor planning (e.g., use of temporary staff or seasonal workers) and implement contingency plans as needed.
Oversee equipment maintenance aligned with IL6S principles to achieve or reduce budgeted maintenance costs.
Ensure equipment reliability to maintain consistent production output and prevent downtime.
Manage targeted stock levels, DBNR, and CTS in alignment with the central HUB and autonomous production teams
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
No Relocation support available
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.
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Manufacturing
Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 80,000 individuals around the world.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
Our Brands
We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum.
Our People
Our 80,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are.
Our Strategies
We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities:
• Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth
• Execution: drive operational excellence
• Culture: build a winning growth culture
