The Transformation & Governance Lead ensures successful project delivery, manages governance and risk, supports stakeholder engagement, and drives organizational transformation towards a product-focused model.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project's readiness to go live.
How you will contribute
You will:
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
More about this role
Role Summary
The Transformation and Governance Lead plays a critical role in enabling product streams and platform lines to successfully adopt and operationalize the Product Oriented Enterprise Transformation (POET). This role serves as the primary transformation partner for assigned streams and lines, guiding them through the end-to-end journey from current-state project-based delivery to a mature product-centric operating model.
The role combines transformation consulting, governance design, agile coaching, operating model implementation, and stakeholder management. The Transformation and Governance Lead works closely with Product Stream Leads, Platform Line Leads, Product Group Managers, Product Strategy and Operations Managers (PSOMs), Agile Coaches, Learning and Capability teams, Tooling teams, and other Office of the CIDO stakeholders.
This position is instrumental in helping product & platform teams understand the "why," "what," and "how" of POET, while ensuring readiness across People, Process, Tools, and Governance dimensions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Transformation Leadership: Serve as the primary Delivery Excellence partner for assigned product streams and platform lines, leading their transition to the Product Operating Model.
2. POET Enablement: Educate stakeholders on POET principles, operating model concepts, roles, governance structures, and expected transformation outcomes.
3. Current-State to North-Star Roadmap: Assess current maturity and define structured transformation roadmaps aligned to the Crawl-Walk-Run journey.
4. People, Process, Tools, and Governance Readiness: Guide teams in preparing across organizational design, delivery processes, toolchain setup, and governance mechanisms.
5. Team Design and Role Clarity: Advise on team composition and role definitions, including Product Managers, PSOMs, Product Group Managers, Scrum Masters, and engineering teams.
6. Governance Design and Execution: Support implementation of governance forums, metrics, QPM, annual planning, maturity assessments, and reporting cadences.
7. Toolchain Coordination: Coordinate with tooling teams to enable required solutions and ensure alignment between operating model design and execution tooling.
8. Asset Development and Maintenance: Create and maintain transformation assets such as playbooks, governance templates, maturity models, operating model documentation, and implementation guides.
9. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Agile Coaching, Learning & Capability, Digital Adoption, Portfolio Excellence, Architecture, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated support.
10. Stakeholder Coaching and Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and teams, providing recommendations to address transformation challenges and accelerate adoption.
11. Maturity Assessment and Continuous Improvement: Evaluate adoption progress, identify gaps, and recommend corrective actions to advance organizational maturity.
12. Problem Solving and Risk Management: Anticipate risks, resolve complex issues, and remove barriers impacting transformation progress.
Qualifications and Eligibility Criteria
Education:
Experience
Framework Knowledge: Strong understanding of enterprise and team-level frameworks, including:
Technical and Functional Knowledge
Certifications (Preferred)
Core Competencies
Success Measures
A successful Transformation and Governance Lead will:
Why This Role Matters
This role is central to the success of the POET transformation. By combining strategic advisory, governance leadership, coaching, and execution enablement, the Transformation and Governance Lead helps the organization move from traditional project delivery to a scalable product-centric operating model that improves agility, alignment, and business value realization.
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
Project and Program Management
Business Capability
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project's readiness to go live.
How you will contribute
You will:
- Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed
- Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings
- Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization
- Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
- Own the relationship with the external vendors including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
- Proven experience in project management methodology
- Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
- Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
- Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery
- Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions
- Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
- Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
- Strong conceptual and analytic skills - enjoys problem solving
More about this role
Role Summary
The Transformation and Governance Lead plays a critical role in enabling product streams and platform lines to successfully adopt and operationalize the Product Oriented Enterprise Transformation (POET). This role serves as the primary transformation partner for assigned streams and lines, guiding them through the end-to-end journey from current-state project-based delivery to a mature product-centric operating model.
The role combines transformation consulting, governance design, agile coaching, operating model implementation, and stakeholder management. The Transformation and Governance Lead works closely with Product Stream Leads, Platform Line Leads, Product Group Managers, Product Strategy and Operations Managers (PSOMs), Agile Coaches, Learning and Capability teams, Tooling teams, and other Office of the CIDO stakeholders.
This position is instrumental in helping product & platform teams understand the "why," "what," and "how" of POET, while ensuring readiness across People, Process, Tools, and Governance dimensions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Transformation Leadership: Serve as the primary Delivery Excellence partner for assigned product streams and platform lines, leading their transition to the Product Operating Model.
2. POET Enablement: Educate stakeholders on POET principles, operating model concepts, roles, governance structures, and expected transformation outcomes.
3. Current-State to North-Star Roadmap: Assess current maturity and define structured transformation roadmaps aligned to the Crawl-Walk-Run journey.
4. People, Process, Tools, and Governance Readiness: Guide teams in preparing across organizational design, delivery processes, toolchain setup, and governance mechanisms.
5. Team Design and Role Clarity: Advise on team composition and role definitions, including Product Managers, PSOMs, Product Group Managers, Scrum Masters, and engineering teams.
6. Governance Design and Execution: Support implementation of governance forums, metrics, QPM, annual planning, maturity assessments, and reporting cadences.
7. Toolchain Coordination: Coordinate with tooling teams to enable required solutions and ensure alignment between operating model design and execution tooling.
8. Asset Development and Maintenance: Create and maintain transformation assets such as playbooks, governance templates, maturity models, operating model documentation, and implementation guides.
9. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Agile Coaching, Learning & Capability, Digital Adoption, Portfolio Excellence, Architecture, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated support.
10. Stakeholder Coaching and Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and teams, providing recommendations to address transformation challenges and accelerate adoption.
11. Maturity Assessment and Continuous Improvement: Evaluate adoption progress, identify gaps, and recommend corrective actions to advance organizational maturity.
12. Problem Solving and Risk Management: Anticipate risks, resolve complex issues, and remove barriers impacting transformation progress.
Qualifications and Eligibility Criteria
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, Business, or related field (required)
- Master's degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
Experience
- 8+ years of experience in transformation, program management, consulting, governance, or agile delivery
- Experience in large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives
- Strong understanding of product operating models and agile ways of working
- Experience in retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or related industries preferred
- Experience working in global, matrixed organizations
Framework Knowledge: Strong understanding of enterprise and team-level frameworks, including:
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Spotify Model
- Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Waterfall
Technical and Functional Knowledge
- Operating model design
- Governance and KPI frameworks
- Portfolio and quarterly planning
- Organizational maturity models
- Toolchain and delivery enablement
Certifications (Preferred)
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- PMI-PMP
- ICAgile Coaching certifications
Core Competencies
- Strategic thinking
- Transformation consulting
- Governance design
- Agile and product coaching
- Stakeholder management
- Executive communication
- Presentation and facilitation
- Problem solving and analytical thinking
- Influencing without authority
- Team collaboration
- Ability to work independently as an individual contributor
Success Measures
A successful Transformation and Governance Lead will:
- Accelerate POET adoption across assigned streams and platform lines
- Establish clear governance and operating rhythms
- Improve organizational maturity using Crawl-Walk-Run models
- Enable effective team structures and role clarity
- Ensure alignment across people, process, tools, and governance
- Develop scalable transformation assets and playbooks
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and become a trusted advisor
- Drive measurable improvements in transformation readiness and execution effectiveness
Why This Role Matters
This role is central to the success of the POET transformation. By combining strategic advisory, governance leadership, coaching, and execution enablement, the Transformation and Governance Lead helps the organization move from traditional project delivery to a scalable product-centric operating model that improves agility, alignment, and business value realization.
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
Project and Program Management
Business Capability
Mondelēz International Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND Office
Unit # 2001, 20th Floor, Tower 3 (Wing C) One International Centre, One International Centre, Mumbai, India, 400 013
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