Procurement Commodities Manager - Sweeteners

PepsiCo•Town/Village of Harrison, NY

5d•$110,700 - $185,250

About The Position

PepsiCo is a global leader in convenient foods and beverages, with a portfolio that includes iconic brands such as Frito-Lay, Pepsi, Gatorade, Quaker and others. Following Commodities, Seasoning & Ingredients global operating model implementation, we are seeking a Manager, Global Sweeteners Procurement, supporting the Sr Director in developing and stewarding global category strategy across Sugar & Corn Sweeteners. Operating under Procurement Centrally Coordinated model, this role builds and maintains the category strategies, commodity/market intelligence and supplier performance frameworks that regional teams around the world execute against. The Manager will partner closely with Procurement Finance, Supply Chain, R&D, Sustainability and regional sourcing teams to ensure global consistency in strategy while enabling regional execution within centrally defined guardrails.

Requirements

Minimum undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Supply Chain, Agriculture or a related quantitative/analytical field.
5+ years of procurement experience and/or related negotiation, commodity, or financial management roles; global or multi-region exposure preferred.
Ability to operate effectively in a cross-functional teams and navigate matrixed environments, building frameworks and strategy centrally while enabling and influencing regional teams who own execution.
Comfortable with ambiguity; builds flexible strategies and adapts quickly across regions with differing market structures and maturity levels.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; proven ability to build trust and gain stakeholder alignment across categories, functions and geographies without direct authority.
Intellectually curious with a broad understanding of global macroeconomic, trade, and geopolitical trends affecting agricultural commodities.
Effective communicator with strong oral, written, and presentation skills, able to engage senior leadership and non-expert audiences alike.
Ability to travel internationally as needed.

Responsibilities

Support development of the Global Sweeteners sourcing strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and drive the agenda across Productivity, Innovation and Sustainability.
Translate global strategy into clear guardrails, sourcing principles and negotiation frameworks that regional teams execute locally.
Leverage scale through global and cross-sector tendering; support implementation and adoption of e-sourcing and other digital procurement tools for value creation.
Monitor and synthesize global sweetener market dynamics to inform sourcing decisions and hedging strategy.
Develop price forecasts, supply/demand outlooks and risk models; share market intelligence and sourcing insights across business units and sectors.
Take a leadership role in risk management by redefining playbook models to capture value via triggers and extending optionality through data-driven decision-making.
Design global supplier performance frameworks and SRM governance routines (e.g., joint business plan templates, scorecards, QBR/JBR structures) for use by regional teams.
Support negotiations with strategic global/regional suppliers to achieve best-in-class economics and build robust business continuity plans.
Act as the connective link between the Sr Director's central strategy agenda and regional teams executing sourcing in-market, ensuring consistent application of global frameworks.
Represent the Sweeteners category in cross-functional and cross-sector forums, influencing without direct authority across a matrixed, multi-region organization.
Partner with R&D to define science & technology needs and develop the roadmap to leverage supplier capabilities across the Sweeteners portfolio.
Align Joint Business Plans (JBPs) with R&D to drive supplier science and technology resources, bringing commercial structure to Innovation, Value Engineering and Design-to-Value (DTV) agendas.
Build central knowledge of Sustainability benchmarking and value delivery, partnering with the Global Sustainability Office and Procurement Excellence teams to drive fact-based, data-backed negotiations.
Ensure alignment and transparent communication of PepsiCo Positive (pep+) targets across Acres, Sustainable Sourcing (SUSO), and Livelihoods, including GHG Scope 1, 2, and 3 commitments.