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Job overview
The External Manufacturing Sr. Operations Manager leads material and supply planners and ensures production and material plans align with approved business plans. The role prepares end-to-end supply chain plans, manages team performance, and works across manufacturing and commercial functions to meet customer service, inventory, and waste objectives. It is remote within the United States, requires residence near a major airport, and involves substantial travel.
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East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
Remote Worker - New Jersey, USA
Full time
R-180551
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
You will manage a team of material and supply planners in a category, enduring that mid- to long-term production/material plans are in place for your assigned plants/lines in line with approved business plans.
How you will contribute
You will:
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Prepare short and long-term end-to-end supply chain plans for items produced internally and externally for further review and approvals
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Manage, coach and develop a team
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Meet your KPIs including (but not limited to) meeting or exceeding customer fill rate, delivering finished goods inventories at or below target levels and meeting waste objectives
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Work closely with internal and external manufacturing, marketing, sales, materials, and replenishment functions to deliver the category's goals
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Deliver performance against approved master and detailed schedules and long-range plans (including capacity considerations) and material requirement plans using system tools
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Be part of the construction of the supply review and escalating issues
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Support and implement improvements in the planning arena to improve customer fill rate, inventory targets and waste reduction to meet company KPIs
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Participate in and/or lead supply review meetings
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
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Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and strong business acumen ideally within an FMCG/CPG environment
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Open to learn new ways of working and willing to be hands-on in using data and systems
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Experience in driving supply review and participation in an IBP cycle
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Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on the key priorities and improving the plan
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Able to build effective teams
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Knowledgeable about leading practice supply planning and end-to-end supply chain concepts
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Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and verbal and written communication skills
More about this role
LOCATION: Remote within the United States, must live near a major airport
Education / Certifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
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Business, Operations Management, Planning, Logistics or another related field
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8 years of related experience.
Travel requirements: 75% travel if not located near East Hanover NJ/Chicago, if you are located near one of these sites the travel would be about 50%.
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $122,000 to $167,750; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
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Job Type
Regular
Supply Planning (MPS - scheduling - MRP)
Customer Service & Logistics
At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader 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 – both global and local. 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 number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum
Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They 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.
Join us and Make It An Opportunity!
Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
How this job compares
Set against the 8,156 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$122–168K/yr
- New Jersey median$88–130K/yr164 salary ranges
- US median$84–114K/yr4,750 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $145K, is 35% above the New Jersey median midpoint ($108K) — in the top quarter of Operations Manager salary ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 222 open Operations Manager jobs in New Jersey and 8,156 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Amazon15 open
- Walmart11 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 6,178 postings).
- Education
- 1,609 of the 8,156 open Operations Manager jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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