Associate Strategy Manager - Away From Home

PepsiCo•Purchase, NY

About The Position

PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to team members on the front lines, we’re excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place. Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day. A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s welcome. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow your skills for the future. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact on people and the planet.Join us. Dare for Better PepsiCo Away From Home (“AFH”) is a division of PepsiCo that brings the company's entire portfolio of food and beverage brands to market in out-of-home consumption channels. The AFH operating environment is complex and highly dynamic, requiring diverse sales and go-to-market systems to meet consumer needs at work, at play, and on the go. PepsiCo AFH leverages the scale and breadth of the company's brands to provide a unified voice to its customers and deliver a competitive advantage in the fast-growing AFH channel. As an Associate Manager on the AFH Strategy team is part of PepsiCo’s broader Strategy network and works globally across PepsiCo’s entire portfolio of beverages, snacks and nutrition. Our 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. AFH is a key enabler of PepsiCo’s strategy, serving as a source of profitable growth, a vehicle to build our brands, and a transformation accelerator. We are tasked with ensuring the company invests in the assets and capabilities needed to stay ahead of the competition, adapt to market trends, and maintain market leadership. This entails developing actionable solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing the company by influencing brand, innovation, equipment and channel priorities and by undertaking transformational initiatives (e.g., data & analytics, online ordering) to achieve the greatest possible growth and penetration. Our team primarily works across three types of projects: long term strategic planning, annual strategic planning, and growth priorities (e.g., channel / customer strategy, portfolio, etc.).

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 Away From Home’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 Away From Home strategy projects (e.g., Go To Market Strategy, Away From Home Growth Model, etc.)
Provide thought partnership to 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.)

Benefits

The expected compensation range for this position is between $93,500 - $156,450.
Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
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.

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