Business Strategy Director

Director of Business Strategy

The North America Supply Chain Strategy function plays a critical role in charting PepsiCo's long-term transformation, driving both the future of the company and shaping the industry landscape. We are tasked with ensuring the company invests in the assets and capabilities needed to stay ahead of the competition and maintain market leadership. This entails developing actionable solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing the company.

To bring fresh and disruptive thinking to the ever-changing macro environment, we have strategists aligned across the North America agenda. Joining PepsiCo's North America Strategy function will enable you to experience the breadth and depth of PepsiCo's portfolio and build a deep understanding of both the business and the industry. Whether you decide to remain in Strategy or pursue a leadership position in another function, the experience provides incredible possibilities for a dynamic career at PepsiCo.

The Director of Business Strategy will work in partnership with North America and operating unit business teams to translate external trends and internal dynamics into key strategic imperatives for the future of PepsiCo's supply chain. In doing so, the Director will work closely with the VP, Strategy and Transformation for Supply Chain and Operations on analytical / strategic problem solving, cross-functional and cross-operating unit strategic solutioning, acceleration through external partnerships, and synthesizing holistic solutions to meet the needs of PepsiCo's aspiration for a consumer and customer-centric supply chain of the future. This role will be responsible for developing critical content, including whitepapers and senior-leader ready presentations during the strategy development phase and will serve as an ongoing thought-partner and strategic resource as the programs enter execution phase. This role will regularly interface with senior leaders (VP+).

Responsibilities

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 :

• Oversee and execute strategic initiatives that cut across the enterprise, both for Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors
• Solve high-impact problems and develop actionable solutions for the most challenging issues facing the company
• 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
• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of PepsiCo's most challenging, business critical, topics
• Translate business problems into 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; ensuring recommendations are grounded in fact and actionable
• Invest in the professional development of direct reports including coaching, performance reviews, and long-term career guidance if applicable
• Build executive-ready project deliverables
• Assist in the planning and execution of key enterprise projects
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from PepsiCo's Executive Committee, Strategy Leadership, and cross-functional business partners
• Provide thought partnership to SC 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 Strategy function (e.g. Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.)

Qualifications