Commercialization Sr. Manager, Innovation Strategy & Performance

Overview

About PepsiCo

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 more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, 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 beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to be the global leader in beverages and convenient foods by winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.

What’s Your Role?

This is a pivotal role in PepsiCo’s Global Innovation Strategy & Performance team. The role scope includes Strategy & Portfolio Governance for PepsiCo’s Global Innovation agenda across international foods & beverages. This role provides a unique opportunity for the successful candidate to have a significant impact on PepsiCo’s Global Innovation which is a key enabler for delivering PepsiCo’s strategic growth ambition.

Responsibilities

• Provide key learnings on innovation performance to relevant Global / Sector stakeholders
• Elevate strategic platform prioritization and identifying critical capability unlocks and investments
• Embed standardized scorecards to ensure transparency and timely course-correct performance to enable strategic planning in partnership with key stakeholders
• Drive Innovation sufficiency by assessing Hopper-Pipeline identifying any sufficiency gaps/course corrects across the enterprise
• Implement performance-driven marketplace KPIs including incremental $NR, VC%, HH penetration etc in order to drive scale, incremental, profitable, and sustained growth via innovation
• Support in defining the role of innovation (scale, mix) in a consumer centric growth algorithm by Cluster & top markets
• Implement an innovation stickability model to step change PEP’s innovation performance beyond launch year, and benching to external best in class
• Collaborate with Global / Sector PPM capability team to unlock single source of truth on portfolio governance. Provide PPM team with data requirements to support portfolio governance analytics
• Lead the analysis on Innovation KPI performance. Conduct diagnostics & provide insights based on internal data sources (PPM, Cockpit etc.) as well as external (IRI Nielsen, Kantar etc.)

Qualifications

• Knowledge of make/move/sell in CPG & innovation strategies / core processes
• At least 10 years of relevant work experience
• Good communication skills, with the ability to simplify & elevate complex business issues & opportunities
• Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Commercial or related backgrounds would be especially useful
• Business acumen, excellent analytical & problem-solving skills. Extremely comfortable driving insight and action from large, complex data sources.
• Ability to engage with and effectively influence senior stakeholders with the organization and across multiple functions, including challenging and comfortably managing conflict
• Strong presentation storytelling with robust problem solving and action-oriented mindset

Critical GREAT5 leadership competencies include:

• Curiosity for Learning: Demonstrates learning agility and curiosity to gain deeper insights that add value
• Collaboration: Effectively listens and understands what other people are saying and keeps others informed so there are no surprises.
• Clarity: Simplifies complexity & communicates in a clear and concise manner
• Results: Balances a sense of urgency and competing priorities with the need to deliver quality results. Demonstrates perseverance in achieving complex or ambiguous goals.
• Networks: Leverages relationships to deliver results. Manages effectively in the matrix & seeks alignment from others on key decisions
• Decision Making: Prioritizes based on a balance of information, insights & calculated risks
• External Perspectives: Understands the PepsiCo business, its consumers, and customers. Uses this information to drive decisions and actions

Reporting: This role reports into Senior Director - Global Innovation Strategy & Performance

Location: This role in based in Purchase, New York

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

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