Strategy 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 for a Strategy Manager on a permanent on a Fixed term OR Permanent basis to join and play an integral part in the broader UK BU Strategy and Transformation team, contribute to a range of critical and impactful business priorities. Key responsibilities of the broader team include the following:

• Support the long-term enterprise strategy of UK BU to deliver sustainable, profitable growth and drive the end-to-end business transformation
• Partner with the UK Exec and relevant senior & cross-functional stakeholders in UK BU and Europe Sector to ensure successful implementation of data and analytics capability
• Act as the internal consulting team and business partner to UK BU and Exec team
• Drive governance of UK BU Strategy & Transformation change agenda providing full BU oversight with clear execution & resourcing plans and key metrics across the strategic pillars
• Identify, integrate and accelerate the delivery of initiatives and priority programs which drive top-line acceleration and/or bottom-line delivery in line with UK BU Strategic Vision and Transformation agenda (e.g., end-to-end transformation, capability and change management, business processes, organizational efficiency & effectiveness, holistic cost management & productivity)

Responsibilities

• Strategic Problem Solving: Evaluate performance and analyse future opportunities utilising an array of data sources. Frame problems, test choices and develop a solution. Inform the long-term strategic agenda of the UK BU with an emphasis on commercial priorities
• Diagnose: Frame the problem to solve, capture/map the current state and internal/externals comparisons and benchmarks
• Analytics: Understand key drivers through data across fragmented and disparate sources (eg external Nielsen / Kantar / ONS / IGD data & internal financial performance)
• Design: Develop solutions in partnership with cross-functional teams and business leaders, find opportunities to enable growth and/or drive productivity/efficiency in the end-to-end value chain, prioritize and align on roadmap of actions across time horizons with key stakeholders
• Plan & Execute: Drive the execution of initiatives in accordance with approved plans and targets, resolve bottlenecks and track performance against set milestones and goals/criteria. This can include both co-ordination of initiatives led by others or direct responsibilities
• Influence & Communication: Facilitate data-based decision making through clear and well-articulated business proposals. Collaborate and partner closely with cross-functional initiative leads to ensure successful realization of UK BU goals, and develop comprehensive and cohesive change plans
• Project Management: Drive governance & portfolio management of UK BU end-to-end Strategy initiatives and integrated roadmap for successful and timely delivery (business case, status, timeline, milestones, risks, resources, investment and capabilities). Organize and direct both internal and external resources to successfully perform targeted tasks.
• Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic/geopolitical trends and developments
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from UK BU Strategy & Transformation VP and aligned by UK BU GM/UK Exec

Qualifications

• Strategic problem solving & results oriented strategic thinker who demonstrates a bias for action with a can-do approach to work
• Strong understanding of external data sets and how they can be knitted together
• Excellent analytical skills, strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Influence & Communication: Ability to communicate, collaborate, and influence effectively at all levels of the BU & Sector organization and drive business decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills (ability to create presentations and present in a clear and succinct manner to senior audiences)
• Team player with the ability to excel in an agile, collaborative, ambiguous environment demonstrating strong people skills, flexibility and willingness to take on diverse tasks
• Good knowledge of the UK operating environment (consumer, channel, macros, competitors)
• Project Management: Ability to drive an agenda autonomously with strong prioritisation skills - requires working in a highly-matrixed organization, handling competing priorities and connecting the dots across multiple large-scale initiatives that have interconnecting impact across functions

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.