Regional Cold Chain Manager - FMCG

Company Overview :

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (Formerly Cadbury India Ltd) is a part of Mondelz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) family of companies, which comprises the global snacking and food brands of the former Kraft Foods Inc. following the spin-off of its North American grocery operations in October 2012. Kraft Foods acquired Cadbury Plc in 2010. The combination of Kraft Foods and Cadbury created a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and convenient meals. Kraft Foods had two very different portfolios which would benefit from being run separately. Hence Kraft Foods split in to two companies on October 1, 2012, with focused portfolios: Mondelez International: A global snacking business Kraft Foods: A North American grocery and beverage business.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE / FUNCTIONAL CONTEXT:

In Mondelez India we work together to create brands people love. You will contribute to this by managing E2E Cold Chain to deliver right eat experience to shopper/consumer. Availability expansion has been identified as one of the key growth drivers. Based on the sustained growth, and the significant market opportunity, the ambition is to accelerate this growth by placement of assets with state of art asset management and controls. This creates a demand for adequate on ground support & lead execution in VC Operations management, cold chain, IT related developments and asset assurance along with RTM cold chain compliance.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Regional Cold chain Manager will own the entire front end cold chain operations as well as monitor RTM cold chain in distribution. Implement initiatives as per company strategy to ensure that VC expansion plan is met with state of art asset management. Managing indirect field force and network of 3P service providers is the key to deliver desired outcome. Team relationship skills are highly valued since this person will work in close contact with the other members of the management team and staff across departments and channels to grow the business intelligently. Job specifics include the following:

FRONT END

- Manage the Cold Chain service network to deliver high quality & reliable service to retailers. Also ensure retailer education in on the agenda.

- Execute the process to track and monitor safety, quality and availability of visicoolers at retail stores

- Execute the process to assess performance/business growth of visicoolers at retail stores

- To establish & develop vendor/suppliers in the region.

- Contribute to the design, development and testing of new visi-cooler designs and innovations.

- Ensure adherence to Visicooler deployment SOP and positive asset assurance

- Change retailer behavior to keep visicoolers switched on 24 x 365

BACK END

- Deliver cold chain infrastructure usage compliance across all distributors

- Lead cold chain infrastructure execution & usage across distributors in the geography. Ensure proper vehicle insulation is in place & develop localise vendors.

- Educate distributors on the need & benefits of 100% usage and compliance of cold chain infrastructure

- Lead to ensure Modern Trade stores & DCs have right infrastructure for cold chain to ensure intact product quality.

- Monitor & reduce consumer complaints of Heat damage for Chocolate category in the region.

- Cold Chain devotement's in Rural India.