Horizon 3 Strategy & Innovation Lead

PepsiCo Inc.; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo Inc. is seeking a Future Strategy & Innovation Lead in Ireland to translate long-term market, ingredient, technology, sustainability, and supply chain trends into actionable opportunities for PepsiCo's Strategic Ingredients Procurement Team.

The role focuses on Horizon 3 thinking to shape procurement strategies that anticipate disruptions and access emerging ingredients, technologies, and supplier networks over the next 3–10 years.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Procurement, Supply Chain, Food Science, Agriculture, Economics, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, category management, strategy, innovation, market intelligence, or related discipline.
• Strong understanding of global ingredient supply chains, agricultural markets, and emerging industry trends.
• Experience evaluating market, technology, consumer, regulatory, and sustainability developments and translating insights into business strategy.
• Demonstrated success identifying and delivering innovation opportunities through suppliers, partnerships, or new business models.
• Knowledge of sustainability, regenerative agriculture, traceability, and supply chain resilience principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term perspectives on global ingredient markets, supply ecosystems, and emerging technologies.
• Monitor consumer, regulatory, climate, geopolitical, and agricultural trends through a procurement and supply resilience lens.
• Partner with R&D, Product Development, Commercial, and Strategy teams to anticipate future ingredient requirements and growth opportunities.
• Build and maintain supplier innovation pipelines, strategic external partnerships, and emerging ecosystem networks.
• Assess future supply security, resilience, and competitiveness risks across key ingredient categories.
• Identify and drive opportunities related to regenerative agriculture, sustainability, transparency, and traceability.
• Lead future-state reviews and scenario planning exercises across strategic ingredient categories.
• Challenge existing sourcing assumptions and embed long-term thinking into category and business strategies.
• Own the Horizon 3 Procurement Strategy, ensuring focus on long-term value creation beyond annual objectives.
• Establish a structured approach for identifying future growth opportunities, disruptive risks, emerging supplier ecosystems, and breakthrough technologies.
• Translate foresight and market intelligence into actionable strategic recommendations for procurement leadership and business stakeholders.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Horizon 3 thinking

Supplier partnerships

Market intelligence

Scenario planning

Sustainability & traceability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Procurement, Supply Chain, Food Science, Agriculture, Economics, or a related field

Job description

PepsiCo Inc. is seeking a Future Strategy & Innovation Lead in Ireland to translate long-term market, ingredient, technology, sustainability, and supply chain trends into actionable opportunities for PepsiCo's Strategic Ingredients Procurement Team.

The role focuses on Horizon 3 thinking to shape procurement strategies that anticipate disruptions and access emerging ingredients, technologies, and supplier networks over the next 3–10 years.