Associate Manager, Corporate Strategy

PepsiCo • Purchase, NY

7h • $89,000 - $149,000

About The Position

The Global Corporate Strategy function plays a critical role in charting PepsiCo’s long-term growth and portfolio development, 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 to each of our Regions, Global Businesses, and to PepsiCo Corporate. Joining PepsiCo’s Global Corporate Strategy function will enable you to experience the breadth and depth of PepsiCo’s global 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
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, with a focus on corporate, global, and food & beverage sector-specific work for the Chairman and Senior Leadership team
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

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences; foreign language skills highly desired

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.)

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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