Business Insights Manager

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Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

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 at the centre 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

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic business insights manager who will support the high growth ambition for our Beverages across UK&I and North-West Europe.

This role requires a more complex understanding of performance, requiring superior analytical capability & an ability to deliver deeper insights for the FOBO business vs. previous periodic reporting basic KPI's & output performance metrics. The role will look at integrating insights across multiple data sources to create full 360 view of performance, with ability to land insights with impact & provide clear narrative & recommendations to accelerate future growth.

The focus will be on producing actionable world class insight through MBR's, QBR's, deep dives (teardowns) & AOP whilst operating in a complex matrix structure, partnering with GBI and NWE brand and commercial teams as well as close collaboration with key bottlers and Sector/Global insights team.

Responsibilities

• Build 360 Integrated Insights & Business Intelligence.
• Create high quality impactful insights using deep expertise across multiple data sources, and multi-channel, understanding how to connect the dots to form bigger picture and clear futures narrative.
• Build clear set of recommendations & plan to course correct or accelerate growth.
• Systemise/automate processes for maximum efficiencies.
• Ensure we extract the most value/ROI from our data and agencies.

• Business Partnering and Influencing PEP commercial & marketing stakeholders across UK&I/ NWE.
• Owner of revised MBR (franchise monthly business review), MBR+(joint bottler/operational performance deck), QBR (quarterly business review), Deep-dives , AOP (Annual Operating Plan) & Full Year strategic stepbacks.
• Business Partner on critical projects relating to Business Performance with Global teams
• On point for key projects such as 'growth navigator' and development of 'quality growth metrics' - embedding within the BU's to ensure they are understood, adopted and acted on
• Develop a joined up 'one system' (bottler+franchisor) business performance framework.
• Lead the creation of aligned KPI's & insights at monthly Ops meeting & strategic reviews
• Ensure we fully leverage our primary data sources to create greater insights impact.
• Develop intimate working relationship with Snacks Insights team on Business Performance.
• Leverage best practise and alignment on core principles & methods for business performance & utilising category agnostic insight within the Beverage business.
• Ensure joined up approach to work/tasks that spans both businesses e.g. forecasting.
• Leadership, Coaching and Development.
• Support up-skill of others to significantly improve their capability.

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• FMCG insights intelligence experience, may also have agency experience initially.
• Expert across all key business intelligence data sources (Epos, Panel, Primary research e.g. demand spaces).
• Compelling storyteller, impactful communicator, presenter & strong influencer.
• Ability to deliver high impact strategic reviews & think strategically but also excellent analytical capability.
• Extremely strong ability to visualise insight & data powerfully to maximise impact.
• Intentional agenda - able to focus and prioritise on only the most important work.
• Taking others with you/collaborate to ensure building work to best possible outcome.
• Highly driven, action-oriented & proactive. Ability to lead work and projects as well as create strong inter-dependencies across the wider Insights team.
• Agile, Open-minded and used to working matrix organizations - excellent relationship builder.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We're also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

A space to be y( )u

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That's why we've empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG's) ask our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

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