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Poland

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Responsible for leading the development of new and renovation of existing countlines, bite size, spreads and licensing product portfolio for Mondelez Europe Chocolate Category, across consumer occasions, markets, brands, across the internal and external networks. Leading from early stage ideation and prototype development through to product launch recommendation. Maintaining and delivering incremental growth through countlines and bite size in the newly defined demand spaces in brands such as: Cadbury Wispa, Twirl, Buttons, Freddo, Milka, Marabou, Freia, Prince Polo, Sport, Picnic, 3 Bit and others.Strong personal leadership of a team comprising 14 members. Management and effective and efficient use of the commercialization processes to meet the Chocolate Category business plans for the region. Manage overall prioritization of resources (internal & external) to ensure business needs are met. Close collaboration with cross-functional team to meet consumer needs and deliver longer-term innovations.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Responsible for leading a team of 8 people and executing Tang Programs in Latin America, including technology and quality improvement. Influencing regional category team to contribute to build Powdered Beverages strategy pipeline for three years ahead. Leadership of LA Beverages R&D team to ensure talent development and delivers against the regional category agenda of Growth, Quality and Wellbeing. Work with strong collaboration with multifunctional teams and business partners. Responsible to encourage and guarantee strong connection between regional and global teams, within and outside Beverages category.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Leadership of 6-people team responsible for margin improvement for powdered beverages, regarding Product Development scope for Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Wacam portfolios, all brands. Delivery of cost saving targets and productivity pipeline for 2018 and beyond. Strong interface with Package Development, Procurement, Manufacturing and Finance teams, as well as Global Productivity and Global Ingredients Technology teams. Responsible to guarantee strong connection with Innovation and Marketing teams in order to contribute with business strategy management on projects directions.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Leadership of 4-people team responsible for innovation projects for powdered beverages under Tang brand, for Brazil and Argentina portfolios. Management of technical direction of projects, assuming responsibility for creation, initiation and execution. Risks evaluation and project strategies definition due to changes on business directions. Management of global projects roll out to regional team. Strong interface with multi-functional teams and creation of a trustful relation with Argentina partners, according to company ways of working.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Sr. Engineer II (Jul’14 to Dec’15), Sr. Engineer I (Jan’11 to Jul’14), Engineer II (Feb’08 to Jan’11). Powdered beverages and desserts development for Tang, Clight, Fresh and Royal brands. Brief to suppliers. Attendance to qualitative and quantitative consumer researches and translation of their results into formulation. New raw material supplier development. Ingredients and product specification development. Formulas optimization to achieve cost reduction. Shelf life evaluation. Conduction of startups, industrial trials and pilot plant trials. Participation on multi-functional and regional projects. Coach to colleagues and interns. Strong relationship with Operations, Marketing, Procurement, Finance, Consumer Insights and Quality areas.Main achievements: Leadership of Tang LA reformulation (2015). Brazilian Tang production in Argentina plant (2013). Short term assignment in India (2012). R&D focal point to SAP implementation (2011). R&D representative for startup of a new plant in Brazil Northeast region (2011). Significant participation in development and implementation of new Tang re-launch with foam (2010). Leader of R&D Quality System implementation (2009).

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Implementation of continuous improvement culture inside powdered beverages plant. Improvement of shop floor meetings concept to manufacture KPIs discussion. Implementation of Six Sigma methodology. Training and coaching employees in Six Sigma projects. Implementation of manufacturing productivity projects like rework utilization, overweight reduction, set up time reduction and work force optimization.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Job rotation between several areas inside the company, like R&D, Procurement, Operations, Marketing, Sales and Logistics. Deep understanding of main function areas and ways of working.

Graduation, Food Engineering

Post Graduation, Business Management