M&A Senior Manager

Overview

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $94 billion in net revenue in 2025, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and drinks, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

PepsiCo’s Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions team is responsible for generating, managing and executing mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, and strategic activities across all of PepsiCo’s business units. This fast paced, collaborative team of M&A professionals focuses on the inorganic agenda of PepsiCo’s global beverage and snack product portfolio, making a direct impact on the company’s future success.

This role will be a rewarding opportunity for both personal and professional growth where you will have the unique opportunity to drive PepsiCo’s inorganic agenda, solve complex strategic problems, and work with global cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You will report to a Senior Director while having direct interaction with the Head of Corporate M&A, as well as other senior company executives, and participate in all stages of executing strategic transactions for PepsiCo globally.

This is a hybrid role based in our Purchase, NY office.

Responsibilities

• Support PepsiCo divisions' business leaders, senior corporate executives and strategy teams to screen, analyze and develop M&A strategy and pipeline
• Collaborate with business and functional teams to synthesize industry/category dynamics and all aspects of the business case development (strategic rationale, financial analyses) to evaluate opportunities
• Lead cross-functional team to execute a wide range of strategic activities, including, but not limited to, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and minority investments
• Influence key decision makers to create internal alignment

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $123,500 - $206,750.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of transaction execution experience either in corporate development / M&A department of a corporation, investment bank, private equity or similar financial services institution; or work within a management consulting firm’s M&A/Corporate development practice
• Ability to evaluate potential opportunities through the development of valuation models to reflect detailed business case assumptions with the flexibility to run scenarios / sensitivities
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; effective verbal and written communication
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA degree is highly preferred
• Food and/or beverage experience, or related consumer products background is preferred
• Ability to drive results on multiple projects in parallel
• Strategic thinker with intellectual curiosity; highly analytical and skilled at valuation methodologies and financial analysis
• Expertise in screening and analyzing potential opportunities for strategic fit and conducting business due diligence
• Strong ability to work collaboratively within teams across the organization
• Experience in being part of large cross-functional teams in a global, matrix organization
• Proven ability to lead and manage multiple complex M&A projects in parallel
• Strategic thinker with the ability to think big picture without losing sight to details
• Skillful at building trust with and influencing senior-level stakeholders
• Proven ability to hit the ground running and adapt to new environment
• Strong ability to work collaboratively within teams across the organization

 

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