Job Description

Description

National Warehousing Lead

Role Context & Purpose

The National Warehousing Lead is a critical leadership role within Mondelez India’s Supply Chain organization , responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the end-to-end warehousing strategy across the country. This role owns the performance, cost, compliance, and scalability of the national warehouse network comprising CFAs, 3PL-managed warehouses, and strategic distribution hubs supporting General Trade, Modern Trade, and emerging channels.

Reporting to the Logistics Operations Lead, the role acts as the single-point owner for warehouse network governance, ensuring alignment with Mondelez’s service, cost, safety, and quality objectives while enabling future growth, digitalization, and operational excellence.

Why This Role at Mondelez

This role offers a unique opportunity to lead warehousing transformation at scale for some of the world’s most iconic brands, including Cadbury, Oreo, Tang, Bournvita, Biscoff & many more.

The National Warehousing Lead will play a pivotal role in shaping the future-ready logistics backbone of Mondelez India, combining strategic impact with operational depth and national exposure.

Key Responsibilities

1. Warehousing Strategy & Network Design

  • Define and periodically refresh the national warehousing strategy aligned with business growth, channel mix, and cost-to-serve objectives

  • Lead warehouse network design including location strategy, capacity planning, consolidation, and expansion decisions

  • Drive standardization of warehouse layouts, material flows, storage norms, and operating models across regions

  • Evaluate make-vs-buy decisions for CFAs and 3PLs and recommend optimal operating models

    • 2. Operational Excellence & Service Delivery

  • Govern end-to-end warehouse performance across the network

  • Drive service excellence by ensuring high dispatch adherence, order accuracy, and inventory reliability

  • Embed IL6S / continuous improvement methodologies to improve productivity, reduce losses, and eliminate waste

  • Act as escalation owner for systemic warehousing issues impacting service or customer experience

    • 3. Cost Management & Productivity

  • Support in warehousing cost budgets and drive continuous reduction in cost per case

  • Establish productivity benchmarks and monitor manpower, space, and equipment utilization

  • Lead cost optimization initiatives through mechanization, automation, layout redesign, and process improvements

  • Partner with Finance to ensure robust cost governance, forecasting, and savings tracking

    • 4. Partner & Contract Management

  • Lead sourcing, contracting, and performance governance of CFAs and 3PL partners

  • Drive commercial negotiations, renewals, and SLA adherence

  • Establish structured governance mechanisms including performance reviews, scorecards, and corrective action plans

  • Build strong, performance-driven partnerships while enforcing Mondelez standards

    • 5. Compliance, Quality & Risk Management

  • Ensure full compliance with Mondelez global warehousing standards, food safety, and quality requirements

  • Own audit readiness across internal, external, and statutory audits

  • Drive EHS, loss prevention, and risk mitigation agenda across the warehouse network

  • Ensure robust inventory controls, loss prevention, and stock integrity processes

    • 6. Digital & Capability Transformation

  • Partner with CS&L Digital and IT teams to deploy, stabilize, and enhance WMS and digital visibility tools

  • Drive adoption of data-driven performance management and analytics

  • Lead capability building for internal teams and external partners through training, SOPs, and playbooks

  • Act as a change leader to embed new ways of working across the network

    • Key KPIs & Performance Measures

  • Warehousing cost per case and total logistics cost

  • Order accuracy, Inventory accuracy, Cold Chain Compliance

  • Productivity metrics (cases per man-hour, space utilization, Etc)

  • Audit scores, compliance adherence, and safety metrics

  • Partner performance and SLA compliance.

  • Own Rough Cut Capacity Planning and execute flexible hiring/Dehiring of external warehouse in line with the same.

  • Seamless warehouse transitions with Best in class design, cost and efficiency parameters.

    • Experience & Qualifications

  • 12–18 years of progressive experience in warehousing and logistics operations within large FMCG / consumer goods organizations

  • Proven experience managing large, pan-India warehouse networks

  • Strong exposure to CFA and 3PL operating models

  • Demonstrated success in cost optimization, network design, and operational excellence initiatives

  • Experience operating in complex, matrixed organizations with senior stakeholder engagement

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Operations; MBA or equivalent preferred. Good Knowledge of SAP with respect to warehousing operation.

    • 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 chocolates, and powdered beverages, and biscuits, and and 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

    RegularWarehousing & Logistics Operations ManagementCustomer Service & Logistics

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