Procurement Commodities Manager - Sweeteners

Overview

PepsiCo is a global leader in convenient foods and beverages, with a portfolio that includes iconic brands such as Frito-Lay, Pepsi, Gatorade, Quaker and others. Following Commodities, Seasoning & Ingredients global operating model implementation, we are seeking a Manager, Global Sweeteners Procurement, supporting the Sr Director in developing and stewarding global category strategy across Sugar & Corn Sweeteners.

 

Operating under Procurement Centrally Coordinated model, this role builds and maintains the category strategies, commodity/market intelligence and supplier performance frameworks that regional teams around the world execute against. The Manager will partner closely with Procurement Finance, Supply Chain, R&D, Sustainability and regional sourcing teams to ensure global consistency in strategy while enabling regional execution within centrally defined guardrails.

 

 

Responsibilities

Category Leadership & Strategy Development:

• Support development of the Global Sweeteners sourcing strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and drive the agenda across Productivity, Innovation and Sustainability.
• Translate global strategy into clear guardrails, sourcing principles and negotiation frameworks that regional teams execute locally.
• Leverage scale through global and cross-sector tendering; support implementation and adoption of e-sourcing and other digital procurement tools for value creation.

Market Intelligence & Commodity Risk Management

• Monitor and synthesize global sweetener market dynamics to inform sourcing decisions and hedging strategy.
• Develop price forecasts, supply/demand outlooks and risk models; share market intelligence and sourcing insights across business units and sectors.
• Take a leadership role in risk management by redefining playbook models to capture value via triggers and extending optionality through data-driven decision-making.

Supplier Performance Frameworks & SRM Governance

• Design global supplier performance frameworks and SRM governance routines (e.g., joint business plan templates, scorecards, QBR/JBR structures) for use by regional teams.
• Support negotiations with strategic global/regional suppliers to achieve best-in-class economics and build robust business continuity plans.

Cross-Regional Coordination & Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as the connective link between the Sr Director's central strategy agenda and regional teams executing sourcing in-market, ensuring consistent application of global frameworks.
• Represent the Sweeteners category in cross-functional and cross-sector forums, influencing without direct authority across a matrixed, multi-region organization.

R&D Partnership & Innovation

• Partner with R&D to define science & technology needs and develop the roadmap to leverage supplier capabilities across the Sweeteners portfolio.
• Align Joint Business Plans (JBPs) with R&D to drive supplier science and technology resources, bringing commercial structure to Innovation, Value Engineering and Design-to-Value (DTV) agendas.

Sustainability & Compliance

• Build central knowledge of Sustainability benchmarking and value delivery, partnering with the Global Sustainability Office and Procurement Excellence teams to drive fact-based, data-backed negotiations.
• Ensure alignment and transparent communication of PepsiCo Positive (pep+) targets across Acres, Sustainable Sourcing (SUSO), and Livelihoods, including GHG Scope 1, 2, and 3 commitments.

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $110,700 - $185,250.
• 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 12% 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

Required Experience:

• Minimum undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Supply Chain, Agriculture or a related quantitative/analytical field.
• 5+ years of procurement experience and/or related negotiation, commodity, or financial management roles; global or multi-region exposure preferred.

Leadership & Business Acumen:

• Ability to operate effectively in a cross-functional teams and navigate matrixed environments, building frameworks and strategy centrally while enabling and influencing regional teams who own execution.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; builds flexible strategies and adapts quickly across regions with differing market structures and maturity levels.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; proven ability to build trust and gain stakeholder alignment across categories, functions and geographies without direct authority.
• Intellectually curious with a broad understanding of global macroeconomic, trade, and geopolitical trends affecting agricultural commodities.
• Effective communicator with strong oral, written, and presentation skills, able to engage senior leadership and non-expert audiences alike.
• Ability to travel internationally as needed.

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