Product Manager, PLCS, Contract Lifecycle Management

You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project's readiness to go live.

How you will contribute:

• Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/or the program manager when needed
• Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports, and monthly review meetings and lead stakeholder meetings
• Lead budget management, resource planning, and utilization
• Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
• Own the relationship with the external vendors, including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery

What you will bring:

• Proven experience in project management methodology
• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
• Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
• Strong focus on cost, schedule, and quality of project delivery
• Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions
• Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
• Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
• Strong conceptual and analytic skills - enjoys problem solving

The CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) Product Lead owns the end-to-end product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Mondelez International's CLM platform. Operating primarily within the DocuSign CLM ecosystem and connected procurement tools, this role bridges Legal, Procurement, R&D, Sales, and business stakeholders to drive adoption, optimize contract processes, and deliver measurable commercial value.

Product Vision & Strategy:

• Define and communicate the CLM product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with enterprise goals and MDLZ procurement transformation objectives
• Establish product KPIs and success metrics, and report progress to senior stakeholders on a regular cadence

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the Contract Product roadmap and strategy, translating business needs into a prioritized delivery plan
• Drive CLM deployment across Legal, Procurement, R&D, Sales, and other business functions, ensuring consistent adoption and change management
• Oversee ongoing platform support, including issue resolution, enhancement requests, and release management
• Lead contract compliance management by ensuring contractual obligations are tracked and fulfilled, proactively identifying and preventing contract value leakage
• Manage and develop a team focused on achieving zero contract value leakage across the enterprise through the Statement Review Process
• Develop a strategy for deploying Amazon Quick Agents for CLM

Stakeholder Management:

• Partner with Legal, Procurement, R&D, Sales, and business units to gather requirements, prioritize features, and manage expectations
• Facilitate governance forums (steering committees, Product Councils) to build consensus around roadmap trade-offs

Domain Knowledge:

• Deep understanding of the full contract lifecycle: authoring, negotiation, approval workflows, execution, obligation management, and renewal
• Familiarity with procurement and sourcing processes as they relate to contract creation and management
• Hands-on experience with CLM platforms and comfort with API/MCP integrations, data migration, and metadata modelling
• Understanding of eSignature tools and requirements across geographies
• Ability to engage credibly with IT architects and developers
• Adjacent Procurement Tools: Experience with Coupa, Hicx, Sievo for spend analytics, and process orchestration platforms such as Pega or ServiceNow
• AI/ML-Driven Contract Analytics: Exposure to clause extraction, obligation tracking, risk scoring, and GenAI-assisted contract authoring
• Experience in SAP and integrations is a plus

Vendor & Partner Management:

• Manage the relationship with the CLM vendor - evaluate new modules, AI features, integrations, and licensing
• Represent MDLZ in vendor roadmap sessions and user community forums to influence product direction