Job Description

Overview

The Global Category & Corporate Strategy Team is comprised of three groups: International Beverages Strategy, Global Foods Strategy, and Corporate Strategy 

These teams sit at the center of the Strategy function, serving as the Strategy team for PepsiCo’s Executive Committee, providing coordination for the global function, and driving Strategy across our International Beverages and Global Foods businesses. We are a flat team, where everyone 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:

Responsibilities

1. Oversee and execute strategic initiatives that cut across the enterprise, both for Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors
2. Solve high-impact problems and develop actionable solutions for the most challenging issues facing the company, with a focus on corporate, global, and food & beverage sector-specific work for the Chairman and Senior Leadership team
3. Identify future growth opportunities for the organization, with particular attention to the capabilities needed to operationalize and capture value from these areas
4. Act as thought partners to the organization in order to translate strategic recommendations into execution, with a particular focus on where and how recommendations drive value

Associate Manager, Global Category Strategy

Role Responsibilities:

• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of PepsiCo’s most challenging, business critical, topics
• Own end-to-end delivery against workstream objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials
• Serve as the analytics point-person on projects, applying logical and creative thinking to drive to fact-based insights
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo
• Build project deliverables in partnership with project leaders
• 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 the EVP-Global Strategy, SVP-Corporate Strategy, 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.)

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $81,000- $135,600 based on a full-time schedule
• Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 10% 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

• Bachelor’s Degree required (MBA Preferred)
• 4+ years of strategy experience either internally or with a Top-Tier consulting firm
• Strategic mindset and highly analytical thinker with sound business judgment
• Excellent technical skills to process large quantities of data in an error-free manner
• Self-starter mindset with the ability to “manage up”
• Experience independently running workstreams
• Strong professional maturity and ability to present findings to senior stakeholders
• Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences; foreign language skills highly desired

Note : COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role.  Please note that all such company vaccine requirements provide the opportunity to request an approved accommodation or exemption under applicable law

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 If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy. Please view our Pay Transparency Statement