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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. 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 What you need to know about this position: The role of the Analytical Lead (Senior Scientist I) is to provide technical direction, analysis and people managerial responsibilities within the BV RDQ laboratory . The job holder will work with the chocolate category to ensure efficient rapid turnaround testing of Pilot Plant samples. The job holder will play a key role in ensuring that all analytical work is performed and supervised effectively and accurately within agreed timescales and to appropriate quality standards. This role will involve training junior members of the team, being the local client contact and providing laboratory management. The role will involve measuring the physio-chemical analysis of products and their intermediates including techniques such as such as texture analysis, rheological testing, particle sizing, solid fat content, moisture analysis, density measurements, differential scanning colorimetry and basic microscopy analysis. The job holder will be required to report work in accordance with the Mondelēz quality standards. What extra ingredients you will bring: Technical Provide high quality customer service at all times by ensuring effective organisation of assigned workload, integrity of analytical data generated and timely/accurate provision of results. Provide technical direction and people management for the team. Perform a range of analysis including texture analysis, rheological testing, particle sizing, solid fat content, moisture analysis, density measurements, differential scanning colorimetry, and basic microscopy analysis, independently. Perform method development in consultation with colleagues at the analytical hub sites. Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of lab equipment. Perform data checking and provide interpretation of results for testing. Generate certificate analysis or external interpretive reports. Expert user of specific software and proficient in the use of generic and specific software packages required for the role. Provide training and manage junior staff in routine activities and methods and interpretation. Take responsibility for elements of specific projects and/or specific areas of general laboratory/sample administration and assign housekeeping tasks as required. Communicate with / leverage on our analytical technical specialists based in our East Hanover and/or Reading sites for any technical advice/support . Communication & Influence Lead an efficient analytical team at site level and work as part of an efficient analytical team globally. To liase with clients, analytical technical specialists in East Hanover and/or Reading and line management to ensure effective communication of project proposals and results. Participate in client and stakeholder meeting s. Deliver internal presentations across groups and to technical stakeholders. Manage small and large projects. Leadership and supervision Plan workload and routine projects for yourself and junior staff. Train junior members of the team. Locally lead a team of scientists. 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 in a timely manner, including review and approval. Write and approve SOPs and Test Methods . Generate and approve Risk Assesments and COSHH . Maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment. Own the analytical train the trainer programme for Bournville R&D and ensure training records are accurate and up to date. Job specific requirements: Experience working within an analytical role in industry Relevant scientific degree (chemistry etc.) Lab management experience is desirable 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 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 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 Regular Analytical Science Science & Engineering