Customer Collaboration Manager

The UK Customer Collaboration Manager role is critical to managing and ensuring the highest levels of service are delivered to our customers. Leading a customer team, in close alignment to the sales team, the structure enables the progression of an agenda focused on delivering operational excellence, optimizing joint costs and in developing improved processes and initiatives to enable business growth. The role is pivotal to our customer engagement, to understand and translate customer requirements through the building of trusted partnerships, and to work as a member of virtual teams within CS&L / MSC / MEU / Commercial functions to shape and deliver the agenda. Role Scope

• Creation of an agreed customer collaborative agenda with internal & external stakeholders to drive continuous improvement of the order to delivery process and deliver agreed KPIs, and a Joint Supply Plan measured through Customer Scorecards to support our Growth agenda.
• Creation and evolution of a focused, motivated and high performing Customer Collaboration team. Working as part of the Customer Order to Cash Leadership Team to fully align and optimize ways of working as a virtual team.
• Leading the service agenda and championing the voice of the customer, working across CS&L to maximise OTIF performance and working as part of the Sales virtual team to ensure a coherent and fully integrated customer agenda.
• Strong stakeholder management and the building of a strong network of relationships is critical both internally and externally- Customer, CS&L, Commercial, MSC, MEU Customer Tower, MBS OTC, external bodies and within the wider business to ensure an efficient flow of information for customer-specific topics It is critical that the job holder is able develop strategy and to frame & communicate information effectively with stakeholders at senior levels.
How you will contribute You will:
• Lead a Customer Team of direct and indirect reports
+ Role modelling and developing a people strategy to optimize the team capabilities, providing a talent pool for development within the business and attract and retain talent from within and outside of OTC to build a high performing team. + Active participation in People Forums & Initiatives as part of the NE CS&L ELT.
• Drive the operational engagement which includes leading the customer collaboration teams that focus on delivering 98.5% service to them through: -
+ Operational excellence and continuous improvement to identify and resolve processes or issues which impact service. + Promotional Forecasting through Implants and 30:60:90 planning processes + Seasonal intent Management + Leading the MBS back office Customer service teams to deliver CS order entry target of <0.05%
• Build trusted partnerships with Commercial Customer Directors / Meals MD to support the delivery of our c$1.5B revenue
+ Leads an aligned agenda as the MSC business partner
• Lead an agenda to deliver service and cost efficiencies to the business
+ Supports the delivery of the Customer Innovation agenda to deliver $500K - $1M per annum in productivity (each) for their customer portfolio. + Leads the customer performance of the Customer Trade Terms Governance, makes decisions based on analytical insights and utilizes, in line with the customer JSP to deliver improvements and efficiencies.

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
• Extensive customer supply chain or commercial experience (preferably Sales)
• Experience of leading people and building teams
• Customer-facing experience (major retailers)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at senior levels (internal and external)
• Strong Customer Relationship Management & stakeholder influencing skills
• Analytical understanding of Service Drivers
• Systems literate - SAP, Microsoft Office (PPT, Excel)
• Fluent English (verbal and written)
• Project Management
  
  The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland ., At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make, but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like Cadbury, Milka and Alpen Gold chocolates, Oreo, belVita, LU and Tuc biscuits get safely into our customers hands-and mouths. Great people and great brands. That's who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.