Marketing Portfolio Strategy

PepsiCo • Plano, TX

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

The PFUS Marketing Portfolio Strategy team is focused on maximizing growth today and into the future. To that end, the team will utilize consumer and market trends to align the organization on where to play and how to win across multiple horizons. Our strategy will be both top down and bottom up, defining the overall opportunity and then identifying the role each piece of our portfolio will play in capturing growth. The projects this team takes on will be strategic in nature, with an initial focus around identification of the Portfolio opportunity. Once accomplished, the team’s focus will shift to the development of a strategy that captures key actions, milestones and success metrics. Post alignment to this strategy, the team will then orchestrate activity to accomplish our portfolio goals while constantly refining our strategy and continuing to monitor for new growth signals.

As the Assistant Manager of Portfolio Growth, your role will be to assist in the development of a PFUS Marketing Strategy and to lead key projects in service of this objective. You will report directly to the Portfolio Director. A successful candidate will have the ability to identify key trends and opportunities from consumer and marketplace data. Additionally, they will help build frameworks and stories that create organizational clarity and alignment around growth opportunities and how to capture them. While the team will be highly collaborative, each team member will be expected to function independently at times in service of our collective remit. The Assistant Manager will also be responsible for key category and brand analysis including the ability to breakdown business drivers methodically and be fluent in full suite of Circana tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• 2-3 Years experience in consumer brand/shopper marketing/innovation/insights
• Experience in utilizing complex data sets to identify opportunity
• Strategic agenda setting capability
• Ability to influence within a highly matrixed environment
• Proven collaboration abilities, strategic thinking and leadership skills
• Must demonstrate both analytical and creative thinking abilities
• Understand business and category drivers and drags
• Fluency in the 5 steps to smiles
• Strong Circana skills
• Strong consulting and/or project management skills

Nice To Haves

• Exceptional communicator (verbally and written) – ability to tell a story, synthesize and convey key messages and present in a visual and compelling way
• Experience in utilizing consumer research, marketplace data and foresights to identify growth opportunities
• Experience assessing end to end opportunities to maximize growth
• Experience diagnosing business drivers and drags

Responsibilities

• Act as a thought partner and strategic guide to PFUS Marketing and Insights
• Act as a project manager on portfolio level projects that are informed by consumer insights, market-place data and trends/foresights
• Act as a project manager on brand and portfolio partition projects that are informed by portfolio growth goals and brand/partition understanding
• Lead and champion a portfolio-centric culture in PFUS Marketing and beyond through consistent usage of key terms, KPIs and strategic frameworks
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the projects you lead on the Portfolio Strategy team
• Act as a key liaison and connection point for identified portfolio related initiatives
• Elevate the impact of the Portfolio Strategy team by challenging the status quo
• Develop working relationships with cross-functional partners, inclusive of Insights and Strategy, as well as manage relationships and workstreams with external vendors when required
• Influence the ongoing development of the Marketing Strategy capability at PFUS

Benefits

• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level