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.

You execute the regulatory affairs strategy for your respective categories and geographical area using your technical and regulatory expertise. You ensure the regulatory and policy compliance of our portfolio and ensure policies, regulatory programs and requirements are met.

How you will contribute

You will implement the regulatory affairs strategy and work with cross-functional teams to anticipate regulatory business risks and opportunities. In addition, you will provide regulatory affairs expertise for technical regulatory developments and help with responses to challenges and crisis management. In this role, you will ensure that ingredients, product composition, claims and labelling is in compliance with regulations and company policies, provide guidance to stakeholders on regulatory affairs, propose and implement business solutions in response to regulatory changes, and maintain and develop a strong knowledge of regulatory, scientific and nutrition risks and opportunities in your corresponding market.

What you will bring

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

• Regulatory affairs (industry, governmental, association background).
• Understanding of the regulatory framework in your geographical area
• Building collaborative relationships
• Conducting technical assessments and supporting issues management
• Thinking creatively
• Communicating effectively
• Project management
• SARA core knowledge topics (e.g. flavors, additives, GMO, organic, dietary or religious suitability, etc.)

More about this role 

What you need to know about this position: 

• Support for North America (NA) Chocolate Regulatory Affairs, including, and in some instances leading, the day-to-day brand RA ownership, business programs across growth, innovation, renovations, productivity, and business continuity programs. 

• Responsible for RA brand continuity and leading brand strategy and decision making. 

• Supports the management of the NA portfolio jointly with the category leader and would execute projects autonomously, as well as through others. 

• Responsible to provide technical expertise and leadership support to the NA brands for both the US and Canadian business teams, requiring a strong cross-border NA mindset and knowledge of both US and Canadian regulations. 

• Strong organization and leadership, acting like an owner, proactively collaborating with business partners and regulatory colleagues to develop objectives and recommended action plans to coordinate project deliverables for business initiatives. 

• Requires technical regulatory skills for managing the increased complexities of labeling, which includes executional work reviewing and approving ingredients, formula compliance approval, creation of labeling information, review and approval of artwork and promotional content. 

• Requires growth in handling and assessing complexity and naturally and intuitively navigating technical solutions to allow the business to function optimally. 

• This candidate will be expected to be involved in and make contributions to NA SARA initiatives, actively participating in the community. 

What extra ingredients you will bring: 

• Requires technical regulatory skills needed for managing the increased complexities of labeling across borders as well as across complex global supply networks. 

• Technical regulatory skills for managing the increased complexities of formula compliance and labeling across NA. 

• Requires experience in executing projects for small to mid-scale initiatives and project management tools and templates. 

• Provides regulatory expertise and guidance to enable the development, manufacture and sale of our products in NA in line with local laws. 

• Requires regulatory background to support (as needed) the Scientific Affairs agenda. 

• Requires digital skills to develop regulatory compliance deliverables and support other administrative work related to the regulatory team. 

• Requires strong learning agility, regulatory foundation in US and Canada regulations, flexibility to manage diverse products and portfolio, and internal stakeholders. 

Education / Certifications: 

Bachelors Degree in Nutrition, Food Science or related scientific discipline 

Job specific requirements 

Requires 4 years of experience in Regulatory affairs in US and/or Canadian food industry. 

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez México has been in the country since 1927 and currently employs 6,000 wonderful people. Our diverse portfolio includes iconic and mouth-watering global brands such as Trident, Oreo, Philadelphia, and local jewels like Clorets and Bubbaloo. We are leaders in the making of cream cheese, powdered beverages and confections—in fact, we make seven out of every 10 chewing gums consumed by Mexicans. Our growth is supported by our cutting-edge manufacturing facilities, such as our Puebla Plant and Nuevo León HUB, which are the largest gums, candies and biscuits factories in the world in terms of volume. You can buy are products in 900,000 places in Mexico. We are also home to one of the 11 technology centers Mondelez International has worldwide, a specialized gum and candy facility that places us at the forefront of innovation and development in the country and drives our purpose to lead the future of snacking. We are pioneers in the country in work-life balance practices such as extended maternity leave, open spaces, remote work and flexible working hours.

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.

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