Strategy Senior Manager - International Beverage

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