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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Context to Sales Capability:

At Mondelēz, one of the keys to delivering top-tier financial performance is developing an industry-leading sales organization that is recognized as ‘partner of choice’ by our retailing customers across all channels. This ambition is enabled via utilizing a customized training syllabus to build capabilities in our sales teams, from field sales representatives to key account managers to category planning departments.

Specifically, this sales material encompasses:

• Selling methodologies and ‘call’ frameworks for visiting on all retail outlets

• Building strategic customer partnerships

• Negotiation and selling techniques for all levels

• Understanding the shopper and utilizing insights to better frame executional initiatives

• The Mondelēz Perfect Store agenda

• Category Planning, including Route to Market & Revenue Growth Management stimulus and can be delivered through a combination of Face to face and virtual team training (using expert trainers inside and outside the organization)

• Building expertise of designated trainers in our markets

Purpose of this role:

This position (reporting to the AMEA Senior Director for Sales) is critical to building our organizational sales capability across the Asia, Middle East & Africa (AMEA) region (spanning some 20+ markets). Specifically, this role should:

• Develop the Sales Capability and training strategy for AMEA including shaping all relevant learning material with other lead members of the regional sales team

• Guide all markets to assess their current sales capability gaps, prioritize their sales training agenda including required investments, facilitate training of material to teams where appropriate

• Develop the digital platform strategy for sales capability training in AMEA to better enable virtual content creation and adoption

• Ensure we are tracking & measuring the effectiveness of sales capability training (specifically using data & analytics)

• Build a connected and engaged AMEA Sales Capability community

How you will contribute

Develop the Sales Capability and training strategy for AMEA including shaping all relevant learning material with other lead members of the regional sales team:

• Identify and prioritize key regional sales capability gaps and opportunities across next 3 years

• Define most suitable learning material & shape multi-year training deployment plan

Guide all markets to assess their current sales capability gaps, prioritize their sales training agenda including required investments, facilitate training of material to teams where appropriate

• Shape and execute E2E sales capability assessment framework and tool with markets

• Help facilitate assessments, compile data, build out aligned training plan & secure training resource (with training materials & systems plan)

• Deploy (train) the syllabus to market teams and / or identified market ‘trainers’

Develop the digital platform strategy for sales capability training in AMEA to better enable virtual content creation and adoption:

• Identify and engage with new digital training platforms and implement / pilot them where deemed appropriate

• Develop and deploy an improved Sales Capability & Learning website with Global Sales Capability team

Ensure we are tracking & measuring the effectiveness of sales capability training (specifically using data & analytics):

• Create ways to measure learning (data and insights) adoption and successful application

• Understand how to best extract data & assess if training is ‘landing’ as intended

Build a connected and engaged AMEA Sales Capability community:

• Establish Sales Capability member network both globally and with each AMEA market

• Facilitate best practice sharing of capabilities & celebrate successes

• Define long term career planning framework for sales team members

More about this role

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Experience:

• 10-15 years’ experience in FMCG space - would be good to have commercial exposure cross-functionally (marketing, sales, HR, finance, consulting)

• Prior experience in customer-facing roles

• 3-5 years’ experience in Sales Capability, preferrable in AMEA

• Demonstrated ability to manage a strong communication & influencing role.

• Prior regional role experience would be beneficial

Education / Certifications:

• University Degree qualified preferably in Commerce, Marketing, or related discipline.

Knowledge:

• Deep understanding of Industry, categories, and key markets within BU. This is a critical ask.

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis and communication skills required.

• Solid understanding of how learning is undertaken and ability to shape content and delivery to this.

​ Technical / Work-based Skills:

• Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, execute and follow-up in a timely manner and anticipate problems and roadblocks.

• Strong demonstration of deployment / facilitation of training material

General Skills / Attributes

• Strong communication skills.

• Strong influencing leadership.

• Understanding of consumer, shopper, and customer expectations

• Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives

Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy

Business Unit Summary

Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International’s Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as Oreo and belVita biscuits, Kinh Do mooncakes, Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate, Halls candy, Stride gum, Tang powdered beverage and Philadelphia cheese. We are also proud to be named a Top Employer in many of our markets.

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.

Job Type

Regular

Sales Operations

Sales

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.

Join us and Make It An Opportunity!

Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.