Program Management Lead (Digital Services)

Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

The Program Management Lead serves as the execution and governance anchor for large-scale, structured, compliance-heavy initiatives within our Jira/Jira Align toolchain. This role operates with agile discipline to bring predictability, integration, and enterprise-scale delivery aligned to POET standards. This role bridges structured program governance with agile execution practices to enable transparency, risk control, and enterprise-scale delivery. Furthermore, this role has a responsibility to mentor and lead a team of project managers operating within this discipline.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Extensive experience in portfolio management including financials in a complex matrix organization
• Extensive experience partnering with strategic leaders and building collaborative working relationships with cross-functional stakeholders including in technology, finance and operations
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams in an international environment
• Ability to master details across broad subject matters and synthesizing the essence in concise communication
• Experience in financial, organizational, risk and change management

More about this role

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor project managers and build a PM competency framework
• Set standards for the organization on ways of working enabling waterfall projects alongside agile projects
• Enable core set of PM’s to effectively deliver projects in Jira using our tollgate methodology
• Be the guiding light for functional PM’s and enable a standard way of operating for the organization

Program Execution & Integration

• Lead end-to-end delivery of programs in Jira alongside agile delivery programs
• Integrate multiple workstreams including technology, data, change management, controls, and vendor coordination
• Align execution to defined Product Oriented delivery standards and governance frameworks
• Agile Discipline in Structured Environments
• Apply scaled agile principles (incremental delivery, backlog clarity, dependency mapping) within System of Records constraints
• Coordinate across multiple squads or delivery pods
• Drive integrated release planning across modules
• Balance iterative delivery with compliance requirements

Stakeholder & Dependency Management

• Manage cross-functional dependencies across Finance, Supply Chain, IT, and vendor organizations
• Orchestrate steering committees and governance forums
• Align program outcomes to financial and operational commitments
• Communicate effectively with executive stakeholders

Change & Readiness Enablement

• Ensure operational readiness for go-live events
• Align with business process owners and change management teams
• Drive adoption readiness while maintaining clear accountability boundaries

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years of program delivery experience in complex enterprise environments
• Proven track record delivering large programs in Jira
• Demonstrated success in multi-workstream integration

Technical Capabilities

• Skilled in Jira and Jira Align
• Advanced risk management and mitigation skills
• Budget control and financial management
• Vendor management experience
• Strong backlog and dependency management capabilities
• Experience with iterative releases inside structured programs

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Executive-level stakeholder communication skills
• Financial acumen and business understanding
• Ability to operate effectively in matrix environments
• Strategic thinking with tactical execution capability
• Comfort managing ambiguity while maintaining control

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broad 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 globally and locally including many household names such as , and biscuits; , and chocolate; candy and gum. We are proud to hold the top position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy and the second top position in gum.

Our 80,000 makers and bakers are located in more than 80 countries and we sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. Our people 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.

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

RegularProject and Program ManagementBusiness Capability