Director, Global Corporate Strategy

PepsiCo • Purchase, NY

2h

About The Position

The Global Corporate Strategy function at PepsiCo is crucial for charting the company's long-term growth and portfolio development, aiming to drive the future of the company and shape the industry. The team ensures investments in assets and capabilities to maintain market leadership and stay ahead of competition, developing actionable solutions for challenging issues. Strategists are aligned to Regions, Global Businesses, and PepsiCo Corporate to foster fresh and disruptive thinking. Joining this function offers exposure to PepsiCo's global portfolio and a deep understanding of the business and industry, providing significant career possibilities. It is a flat team where everyone contributes to solving complex problems, with work being high-priority, high-value, high-visibility, and high-impact, focusing on growth and capability building. Key responsibilities include overseeing and executing enterprise-wide strategic initiatives for Senior Leadership and the Board, solving high-impact problems and developing actionable solutions for the Chairman and Senior Leadership team, identifying future growth opportunities and the capabilities needed to operationalize them, and acting as thought partners to translate strategic recommendations into execution, focusing on value creation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 8+ years of strategy experience either internally or with a Top-Tier consulting firm
• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
• Excellent technical skills to coach teams to analyze large quantities of data in an error-free manner
• Outstanding project and people management skills
• Experience managing large teams and partnering with multiple business functions
• High Emotional Intelligence and verbal and written communication skills that educate and influence senior leaders; ability to “manage up”
• Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences

Nice To Haves

• MBA strongly preferred
• foreign language skills highly desired

Responsibilities

• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of PepsiCo’s most challenging, business critical, topics
• Translate business problems into structured projects that you will lead in end-to-end delivery against key objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials
• Lead analytical workstreams – identify and deconstruct business issues, and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses and solve critical business issues with minimal oversight from functional leaders
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo
• Lead & manage teams to deliver on-time and complete deliverables; ensuring recommendations are grounded in fact and actionable
• Invest in the professional development of direct reports including coaching, performance reviews, and long-term career guidance
• Build executive-ready project deliverables
• 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 PepsiCo’s Executive Committee, Strategy Leadership, 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

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $132,200 - $262,400.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 25% of annual salary paid out annually and an additional target payout of 10% of annual salary is paid out over 3 years following the end of the performance period.
• Long term incentive equity may be awarded based on eligibility and performance.
• 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: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees