Job 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 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

Warehousing & Logistics Operations Management

Customer Service & Logistics