Overview
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 contributes 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 SeniorLeadership and the Board of Directors
- Solve high-impact problems and develop actionable solutions for the most challengingissues facing the company, with a focus on corporate, global, and food & beverage 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 strategicrecommendations into execution, with a particular focus on where and how recommendations drive value
Responsibilities
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.)
Qualifications
What you will need to have:
- Min Bachelor degree (MBA Strongly preferred)
- 5+ years of strategy experience with a Top-Tier management consulting firm and/or CPG sector
- Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
- Excellent technical skills to coach teams to process large quantities of data in an error[1]free manner
- Experience independently running projects and managing teams
- High Emotional Intelligence and verbal and written communication skills that educate and influence senior leaders; ability to manage up
- Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
- Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences; foreign language skills highly desired
