The Global Category & Corporate Strategy Team is comprised of three distinct groups: International Beverages Strategy, Global Foods Strategy, and Corporate Strategy. The Strategy Senior Manager - International Beverage role will be anchored in the International Beverages Strategy group, where you will also gain exposure to the work done across the groups. As a lean organization, everyone will materially contribute to solving PepsiCo’s most complex problems. The work is always high-priority, high-value, high-visibility, and high-impact, with a particular focus on growth and capability building.
We have four main areas of responsibility:
- Oversee and execute strategic initiatives that cut across the enterprise, both for Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors.
- Solve high-impact problems and develop actionable solutions for the most challenging issues facing the company, with a focus on corporate, global, and food & beverages sector-specific work for the Chairman and Senior Leadership team.
- Identify future growth opportunities for the organization, with particular attention to the capabilities needed to operationalize and capture value from these areas.
- Act as thought partners to the organization in order to translate strategic recommendations into execution, with a particular focus on where and how recommendations drive value.
What you will be responsible for:
- Translate business problems to structured projects that you will lead in end-to-end delivery against key objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials.
- Lead analytical workstreams – identify and deconstruct business issues, and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses and solve critical business issues with minimal oversight from functional leaders.
- Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo.
- Lead & manage teams to deliver on-time and complete deliverables.
- Invest in the professional development of direct reports including coaching, performance reviews, and long-term career guidance.
- Build executive-ready project deliverables.
- Assist in the planning and execution of key enterprise projects (e.g., Enterprise Strategic Planning, PepsiCo Growth Model, etc.).
- Execute against time-sensitive requests from PepsiCo’s Executive Committee, Strategy Leadership, and cross-functional business partners.
- Provide thought partnership to Corporate Strategy leadership team, business partners and Senior Executives on a broad range of business-critical topics.
- Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic / geopolitical trends.
- Contribute to capability building for the entire Global Strategy function (e.g., Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.).