The incumbent drives financial governance for CAPEX and productivity in manufacturing, supporting investment planning, cost optimization, and productivity tracking for sustainable growth.
Job Description
Purpose of the Role
The role partners the Manufacturing & Supply Chain (MSC) function to drive financial governance across Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Productivity agendas for the India business.
The incumbent will support investment planning, project feasibility, cost optimization initiatives, and long-term productivity pipelines to enable sustainable growth, capacity readiness, and margin improvement.
This position acts as a key finance business partner to Engineering, Plants, Procurement, and Central Supply Chain teams, ensuring disciplined capital deployment, robust productivity governance, and delivery of financial benefits.
Key Responsibilities
1) CAPEX Financial Management
2) Productivity & Cost Optimization
Key Stakeholders
Knowledge & Skills
Functional Knowledge
Technical Skills
General Competencies
Qualifications
Experience
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.
Job Type
Regular
Finance Planning & Performance Management
Finance
Purpose of the Role
The role partners the Manufacturing & Supply Chain (MSC) function to drive financial governance across Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Productivity agendas for the India business.
The incumbent will support investment planning, project feasibility, cost optimization initiatives, and long-term productivity pipelines to enable sustainable growth, capacity readiness, and margin improvement.
This position acts as a key finance business partner to Engineering, Plants, Procurement, and Central Supply Chain teams, ensuring disciplined capital deployment, robust productivity governance, and delivery of financial benefits.
Key Responsibilities
1) CAPEX Financial Management
- Lead financial planning and governance of the annual CAPEX investment program for the India supply chain network.
- Partner with Business Development, Engineering, and Plant teams to ensure capacity and capability readiness aligned with growth plans.
- Prepare, review, and drive approvals for capital expenditure plans and investment requests.
- Evaluate financial viability of CAPEX projects, including ROI, payback, and business case analysis.
- Support long-term investment planning for capacity expansion and capability enhancement.
- Collaborate with AMEA regional teams for review and approval of major investments.
- Ensure capital spending is phased and executed as per approved plans.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews to track benefits realization and project outcomes.
- Develop investment models for future capacity and network growth scenarios.
2) Productivity & Cost Optimization
- Partner with MSC teams to deliver India BU productivity targets and build a robust 2-3 year productivity pipeline.
- Analyse the cost base, identify loss areas, and recommend improvement opportunities across operations.
- Drive governance and end-to-end tracking of gross productivity projects.
- Lead cross-functional alignment to ensure sufficiency of productivity initiatives.
- Support delivery of India Net Productivity (NP) targets.
- Review and assess financial viability of new productivity projects.
- Streamline VOLT reporting processes and strengthen productivity governance.
- Work closely with Plants, Procurement, and Central Supply Chain teams on ideation, feasibility, and execution of projects.
Key Stakeholders
- Manufacturing sites and Plant Finance teams
- Engineering and Business Development teams (Plant, Country, and Regional levels)
- Procurement and Central Supply Chain teams
- MSC Finance, COE, and BU Finance teams
- Regional Supply Chain Finance teams
Knowledge & Skills
Functional Knowledge
- Understanding of complex manufacturing environments
- FMCG commercial accounting and supply chain finance principles
- Capital investment analysis and project feasibility evaluation
Technical Skills
- Strong experience in supply chain or plant finance
- CAPEX evaluation, ROI modelling, and productivity tracking
- Network or capacity modelling (preferred)
- Advanced Excel and business analytics skills
- Basic PowerPoint and dashboarding capabilities
General Competencies
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
- Ability to influence across multiple levels, from analysts to directors
- Structured problem-solving and analytical mindset
- Effective communication and presentation skills
Qualifications
- CA or MBA (Finance) preferred
Experience
- 6-8 years of experience in a manufacturing or FMCG environment
- Exposure to plant finance, procurement finance, CAPEX evaluation, or productivity initiatives preferred
- Open to candidates from Commercial Finance, Category Finance, or other Finance Business Partnering roles within manufacturing or FMCG organizations.
- Exposure to cost analysis, project evaluation, or operational finance will be an advantage.
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.
Job Type
Regular
Finance Planning & Performance Management
Finance
Top Skills
Advanced Excel
Business Analytics
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