17 Product Management jobs in Northampton, Worcestershire

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 Customer Services & Logistics (CS&L) / Manufacture Supply Chain (MSC) / Mondelez Europe (MEU) / Commercial functions to shape and deliver the agenda. Scope of the role

• 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, Customer Services &Logistics, Commercial, Manufacture Supply Chain, Mondelez EU Customer Tower, Order To Cash, 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:
• Leads 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 (order to cash) to build a high performing team.
• Active participation in People Forums & Initiatives as part of the UK & Ireland CS&L ELT.
• Driving 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%
• Building trusted partnerships with Commercial Customer Directors / SRP to support the delivery of our c$2B revenue
• Leads an aligned agenda as the MSC business partner
• Leading 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.
The role requires the job holder to build a strong network of relationships across CS&L and Commercial, as well as externally with customers and industry bodies. It also works across the immediate Country team.


• Degree calibre
• Extensive customer supply chain or commercial experience (solid experience preferably Sales or Supply Chain FMCG)
• 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.
  
  At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
We have a rich portfolio of strong brands - both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.