Director, Global L&D, Organizational Capabilities

PepsiCo•Chicago, IL

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Director, Global Functional Development, Organizational Capabilities is an important leadership role within PepsiCo’s Global Learning & Development Center of Excellence. This role is responsible for identifying, creating, and measuring learning strategies and solutions that apply across all functions at PepsiCo. This leader will design scalable learning and drive innovation, relevancy, and impact while ensuring alignment with PepsiCo’s business and talent priorities. The role will work in partnership with other Functional Learning leaders, lead learning professionals and collaborate across the broader Talent Management COE, People function, People Operations, regional teams and with key stakeholders to deliver a best-in-class, scalable and adaptive approach that unlock organizational capability across PepsiCo globally. This leader will champion a culture of continuous learning, connecting external trends and internal needs, and integrating learning into the flow of work. The individual in this role will be a true learning expert with deep functional knowledge in Learning as well as experience in complex, global organizations. The role plays a critical part in evolving PepsiCo’s approach to learning and will enable transformation in this space through unifying our efforts, amplifying our impact, evolving and modernizing our operating principles and inspiring others to reimagine how learning comes to life for our associates every day.

Requirements

Degree in Organizational Learning or a related field preferred.
12+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development or Talent Management, with global scope and scale.
Proven track record leading a high-performing learning organization.
Deep expertise in adult learning principles, learning/learner analysis, instructional design, and design thinking.
Forward thinking, with an ability to set direction and motivate others on what is possible in an ever-evolving landscape.
Agile and adaptive; flexible and proactive in fast-paced, ever-evolving environments.
Proven track record of designing and implementing enterprise-wide learning strategies and systems that deliver high learner impact and strong business performance.
Excellent business acumen and ability to translate business needs into learning solutions.
Exceptional consulting, collaboration, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, including experience working with senior executives.
Strong understanding of learning technologies and analytics; proven ability to leverage to improve the effectiveness of learning.
Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to use data to drive decisions and communicate impact; and the ability to coach, mentor and facilitate as needed.
Experience navigating through organizational complexity and ambiguity.
Experience managing global teams and working in matrixed, fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

Develop and refine the learning strategy for key organizational capabilities at PepsiCo, creating alignment with organizational frameworks + priorities, and balancing current needs and future aspirations.
Contribute to and lead aspects of PepsiCo’s organizational learning strategy and ecosystem; see beyond short-term needs and influences the long-term direction of learning.
Ensures learning is tightly aligned with enterprise business strategies so that it accelerates performance and drives measurable organizational impact.
Build and sustain world-class functional development learning objects, aligned to key skills that are required across the organization, & known for delivering impact. Unlock organizational efficiencies by delivering learning at scale across functions when the needs and skills are aligned.
Champion innovative, learner-centric approaches including digital learning, experiential learning, social learning and coaching; remove points of friction and inefficiency where possible.
Cultivate and champion a skills-based development framework that aligns workforce capabilities with evolving business needs; determine priorities through on-going organizational needs analysis.
Integrate a variety of learning technologies to enhance the learner experience, reimagine work inside the L&D operating model and enable a digital-minded culture + approach to learning.
Articulate learning impact with a data-driven approach to assess outcomes, reach and audience value; provide actionable insights to increase learning performance and inform learning investments; shift key stakeholders to focus on learning outcomes over learning activity
Enable people to learn in ways that drive consistent high performance for individuals and the organization, creating conditions that amplify the impact of learning at all phases of their career.
Inspire possibility by acting as a leader with vision on ground-breaking, emerging and relevant trends.
Lead and develop a high-performing global team of learning professionals, fostering collaboration, innovation, excellence and team member growth.
Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, TM/People partners, and regional partners to ensure functional development solutions are aligned, relevant, and impactful and to advance the understanding of high-performance learning with functional stakeholders.
Drive governing principles, protocols and processes that enable consistency and scale, unlock synergies, allow for leverage and simplification, and promote continuous improvement and iteration.
Oversee partnerships with external learning partners to bring the best and emerging thinking and practices to PepsiCo.