Innovation and Renovation Process Excellence Lead

Innovation and Renovation Process Excellence Lead

Requirements

• A passion for process improvement, executional excellence, and business impact.
• Strong project and portfolio management experience, with a deep understanding of governance structures, stage-gate processes, risk management, and cross-functional project execution.
• Leading process improvements and governance initiatives that drive speed, visibility, and discipline across complex organizations.
• Deep understanding of innovation or commercialization processes, with a proven ability to identify bottlenecks and accelerate speed to market.
• Building strong relationships and influencing across functions and levels, including senior stakeholders and global teams.
• Driving system and process adoption across multiple functions through training, consistent stakeholders’ engagement and change management.
• Managing performance through data – including defining KPIs, building dashboards, and generating actionable insights.
• Coaching and leading teams, with a focus on building capabilities, driving accountability, and fostering continuous improvement.
• Operating effectively in a fast-paced matrixed environment, with strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Comfortable in influencing without authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of the I2M governance framework with a strong focus on reducing complexity and increasing agility to improve speed to market.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and decision-making enablers that accelerate cycle times without compromising compliance or quality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Commercialization) to proactively identify bottlenecks, misalignments, and inefficiencies across the project lifecycle.
• Ensure critical path visibility and timely escalation mechanisms are embedded in governance routines to maintain momentum and delivery discipline.
• Monitor and report on lead times and speed-to-market metrics, driving accountability and visibility at all levels of the organization.
• Lead the coordination and tracking of the TSU (trials and start-up) budget across the I2M portfolio. Partner with Finance, R&D, Manufacturing and BD&C to ensure trials and start-up costs.
• Develop, track, and evolve key KPIs that measure I2M and project management performance.
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and tools to support decision-making at all levels.
• Own and drive adoption of the I2M process and systems across all relevant functions.
• Act as the US guardian of I2M ways of working, ensuring alignment, accountability, and role clarity across the cross-functional teams.
• Develop and deploy training, procedures and playbooks, and onboarding tools to strengthen capability and ensure consistent understanding and application if I2M.
• Monitor usage, data quality, and compliance with I2M methodology and systems, and lead corrective actions or engagement plans as needed.
• Influence a culture of process discipline, continuous learning, and innovation through best practice sharing and reinforcement of Mondelez standards.
• Act as US ambassador with I2M global team, contributing to global discussions on Accolade upgrades and I2M process design.
• Represent regional needs and propose enhancements to tools and systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor`s degree required (preferred fields: Engineering, Business, Food Science).
• 8+ years of experience in project management, continuous improvement, commercialization, operations or related roles.
• Experience in project portfolio governance or I2M framework implementation.
• People management experience preferred.
• CPG experience is a plus.
• PMP certification is a plus.
• Accolade experience is a plus.