Global Lead of Emerging Commerce Platforms

Posted:
1/20/2026, 11:24:02 PM

Location(s):
East Hanover, New Jersey, United States ⋅ New Jersey, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Sales & Account Management

Workplace Type:
Remote

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 work in partnership with global, regional and local teams to define and execute digital commerce channels.

How you will contribute

You will:

  • Execute the strategy Emerging Commerce Platforms
  • Ensure the delivery of business cases, value models, and investment frameworks
  • Optimize the use of resources in order to obtain more profitability in the operations.

What you will bring

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

  • Stakeholder-facing roles
  • Growing revenue and market share
  • Delivering results and problem solving
  • Understanding Emerging Commerce Platforms, go-to market strategies, structure and business practices
  • Negotiating and influencing skills

More about this role

The Global Lead, Emerging Commerce Platforms will own Mondelēz’s strategy, pilots, and scale-up of new and evolving digital commerce channels, with Agentic Commerce as the primary focus. 
 
This role is designed for a highly curious, agile leader who thrives in ambiguity and is comfortable building new business models, operating structures, and playbooks from the ground up. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and commercial execution, partnering closely with global, regional, and local teams to define how Mondelēz shows up and wins in emerging commerce ecosystems. 

What you need to know about this position:

Emerging Commerce Platforms Strategy (Primary Focus: Agentic Commerce) 

  • Own the global Emerging Commerce Platforms strategy, with a strong emphasis on Agentic Commerce (AI-driven shopping agents, LLM-powered discovery, and automated purchasing environments) 

  • Define Mondelēz’s role, visibility, and conversion strategy within AI-mediated shopping journeys 

  • Develop business cases, value models, and investment frameworks to quantify incremental growth and ROI 

  • Lead pilot design and execution in priority markets, translating learnings into scalable global playbooks 

Social Commerce & New Digital Channels 

  • Identify, assess, and prioritize emerging commerce platforms including Social Commerce and new marketplace models 

  • Build strategy and define test-and-learn roadmaps with clear hypotheses, KPIs, and scale criteria 

  • Partner with regional and market teams to activate and track pilots while maintaining global strategic coherence 

Operating Model & Capability Development 

  • Design new operating models for emerging platforms that sit outside traditional eCommerce structures 

  • Define global vs. market roles, workflows, governance, and decision rights 

  • Partner with Content, CX, Data & Analytics, Legal, and IT to ensure AI-ready content, structured data, and compliant activation 

  • Build internal capability frameworks, training, and playbooks to enable markets at scale 

Cross-Functional Leadership 

  • Act as a global connector across Digital Commerce, Marketing, IT, Data, RGM, and Legal 

  • Drive alignment across functions to enable execution of emerging platform strategies 

  • Support senior leadership with clear updates, insights, and recommendations 

Success Metrics 

  • Clear Emerging Commerce Platforms roadmap adopted by global and priority markets 

  • Successful Agentic Commerce pilots with measurable incremental value 

  • Scalable operating models deployed across regions 

  • Improved organizational readiness for AI-mediated commerce (content, data, measurement, governance) 

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Capabilities & Skills 

  • Strategic thinker with the ability to move from vision to execution 

  • High intellectual curiosity and comfort operating in fast-evolving, undefined spaces 

  • Strong business writing skills (business cases, strategy decks, operating models) 

  • Excellent project management and stakeholder influence capabilities 

  • Data-driven mindset with comfort using metrics to guide decisions 

Leadership Attributes 

  • Agile, adaptable, and energized by change 

  • Comfortable challenging the status quo with intellectual honesty 

  • Collaborative, pragmatic, and outcomes-oriented 

  • Balances long-term vision with near-term delivery 

Education / Certifications:

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Advanced degree or certification in project/program management
  • Master's degree in engineering or product (technical) management preferred

Job specific requirements:

  • 5–10 years of experience in management consulting, digital commerce, strategy, or program/project management
  • Proven ability to build new business models or operating frameworks in ambiguous environments 
  • Strong technical fluency (AI, platforms, data ecosystems), without requiring hands-on engineering 
  • Experience working in global, matrixed organizations 
  • CPG, retail, marketplace, or platform experience preferred 

Work schedule:

  • 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST, some flexibility due to global collaboration

Salary and Benefits:

The base salary range for this position is $140,300 to $192,940; 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/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.

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Job Type

Regular

Account Management

Sales

Mondelez International

Website: https://www.mondelezinternational.com/

Headquarter Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1903

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Consumer Goods ⋅ Food and Beverage ⋅ Food Processing ⋅ Manufacturing