Sr Scientist l – Mondelēz International Thane Maharashtra

About the Job – Sr Scientist l – Mondelēz International Thane Maharashtra

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.

In this role, you work independently to organize project teams and establish project technical scope and approach, and manage project design and delivery while still retaining a hands-on approach to analytical work. Your work includes large, complex projects that may be multi-department, cross-functional, and multi-country in nature. You offer people leadership, execute strategies or goals to meet business needs and interact independently with senior management and stakeholders.

How you will contribute

You will provide technical direction and leadership—which includes training and mentoring junior team members—in the laboratory to ensure that complex projects are completed on time and with the appropriate analytical and regulatory standards. In this role, you will review and approve scientific reports, method development and validations, authorize competencies in your area of expertise and independently perform complex method development and design validations protocols. In addition, you will maintain and troubleshoot lab equipment, ensure a clean, tidy and safe working environment, and perform and approve risk assessments. Excellent communication skills will be required of you because you will write technical reports, check data, offer interpretations of results and interact with internal and external holders using influencing and presentation skills to present project proposals and results.

What you will bring

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

Laboratory requirements and practices
Analytical technology in your area of expertise and the desire to develop in-depth and broader technical expertise
Scientific understanding and the ability to independently conduct chemical analysis in relevant area
Verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build your network and technical credibility with external clients and internal teams
Problem solving and planning resources to maintain a consistent workflow to deliver projects
Organizational skills, including time management and priority setting

More about this role – Sr Scientist l – Mondelēz International Thane Maharashtra

We are Business minded Analytical Science team with keen focus on Consumer, Science led and Results driven.

The role at Senior Scientist I is to provide strong technical analytical guidance to projects regarding product development based on consumer desired experience, new process technologies, quality programs, developing methodologies of analysis by using internal available analytical techniques or outsourcing aiming to ensure speed up of projects and competitive advantage of the business.

The position plays a key role in ensuring project partnership, stakeholder management, consultation with global SME’s as well as ensure that project is supervised effectively and accurately within agreed timescales and to appropriate quality standards. This role focuses on routine and investigative analyses of products and method development and validations using locally available techniques for physical or chemical characterization such as Particle Size, Viscosity, Texture, Chromatography, NMR, NIR, DSC, Thermal Analysis, Moisture, Fat, Protein, ash, Vitamins among others. The role also requires managing junior members of the team as well as providing training in techniques available as required. Client contact and administrative support for laboratory management.

What you need to know about this position:

In summary, the position independently plans and conducts projects and develops complex, functional expert services and compliance programs and develops project objectives to deliver business needs. Executes against objectives. Significantly impacts direction and quality of work done by other technical people.

At the organizational level, the position interacts with senior members of technical and scientific organizations; regularly interfaces with other departments, acting as the key technical resource.

Technical Approach

Provide high quality customer partnership at all times with coaching by ensuring effective organization of assigned workload, integrity of analytical data generated and timely/accurate provision of results. Provide strong Technical direction within own area of expertise to the team. Perform a range of analysis using wide type of techniques independently. Perform complex method development and design validation protocols. Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of lab equipment. Perform data checking and provide interpretation of results for routine testing. Generate certificate of analysis or external interpretive reports. Expert user of available specific softwares and proficient in the use of generic and specific software packages required for the role, as examples: Minitab for data treatment, R&Dsuite, eQCMS, Interspec, Knovel, Goldfire. Apply accordingly Statistical fundamentals to support projects (descriptive, probability, hypothesis test, sampling, correlation and regression, repeatability, reproducibility). Provide technical training to junior staff in routine activities, methods and data interpretation, including people from other areas (Quality, ISC). Take responsibility for elements of specific projects and/or specific areas of general laboratory/sample administration and assign housekeeping tasks as required. Propose and develop studies to map manufacturing process to support improvements and problem solving. Improve and influence/support implementation of programs that impacts the running of the laboratories regionally (e.g. safety and laboratory systems, calibration plan for instrumentation). Demonstrate know how on manufacturing process involved in the daily routine.

Strategic approach

Establish needs for the category/function through planning discussions with cross functional teams. Define priorities, resource management, establish appropriate approach to meet the business needs and find alternative solutions to technical challenges. Deliver against needs identified. Plan parallel projects support with some coaching. Collaborate regionally and globally with the Analytical Sciences by ensuring knowledge management, establishing technical network within and outside of the Category/Function and sharing projects globally in COPs. Lead strategic projects to impact the Region with some guidance. Understand internal MDLZ policies, apply them to their daily work and share learnings.

Communication & Influence

Work as part of an efficient Regional Analytical team.

To liase with clients, business development and line management to ensure effective communication of projects scope and results and make proposals for the next steps of the projects.

Integrate in projects and Participate in client and stake holders meetings

Deliver internal presentations across groups and to technical stakeholders and functional leadership.

Leadership and supervision

Plan own workload and ensure resources allocation in appropriate projects.

Train junior members of the team as required.

May need to manage Junior members/ contractors/ intern students.

QEHS

Work to the highest standards of safety and quality by ensuring that appropriate COSHHs, risk assessments and SOPs are understood and followed.

Complete assigned quality actions on a timely manner, including review and approval.

Write and approve SOPs and Test Methods.

Generation and approval of Risk Assessments and COSHH.

Maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment.

Understand and work to the requirements of GMP/GLP.

Ensure training records are captured accurately.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Education / Certifications: Sr Scientist l – Mondelēz International Thane Maharashtra

Masters or Phd in Food Sciences or Chemistry or Analytical Science or Pharma

Travel requirements:

Work schedule:

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

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

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.