Program Director, Strategy & Delivery

Pepsi Bottling Ventures • Raleigh, NC

37d

About The Position

Pepsi Bottling Ventures is seeking a Program Director, Strategy & Delivery to join our team. We are jointly owned by Suntory and PepsiCo. Suntory is a family-owned business founded in Japan more than 125 years ago that is known globally for their beverages and innovative spirit. PepsiCo has a 125-year plus legacy as a global leader in convenient foods and beverages. We represent Suntory’s non-alcoholic beverage industry in the United States and have an 80-year plus legacy of providing PepsiCo products to the Carolinas and beyond. We make, sell, and distribute PepsiCo and other beverages. We do business in five states and sell PepsiCo beverages to most of the market in our geographic regions. We also develop our own line of beverages, producing and distributing a growing product line nationally. We bring you the beverages you love. We bring PepsiCo’s beloved beverages and more to you and our customers. As a part of Suntory, we believe in dreaming big and boldly pursuing our dreams, growing for good, and giving back to society. We innovate to create new beverages, like our Nature’s Twist refreshing lemonade line, and we continuously expand our beverage portfolio to bring you and our customers joy. Our leaders embrace a coaching leadership style. We look for leaders that empower all team members. Our leaders value integrity, teamwork, accountability, adaptability, and communication in all they do and expect from their teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related field.
• Fifteen (15) or more years of progressive experience, including leadership of large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience in program, portfolio, or transformation leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple business functions (operations, commercial, finance, or strategy).
• Proven track record of delivering measurable business value through complex change initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating in food and beverage manufacturing, or similarly complex environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the transformation roadmap, aligning initiatives to strategic business priorities.
• Continuously adapt the roadmap based on performance insights, market dynamics, and business conditions.
• Translate strategy into executable programs with clear milestones and outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of transformation programs across multiple workstreams.
• Manage interdependencies across initiatives and functions.
• Ensure delivery against timelines, budgets, and value commitments.
• Establish governance, decision rights, and reporting frameworks.
• Define value-added metrics and success measures for each initiative.
• Partner with functional and finance leadership to ensure benefit realization and sustainment.
• Lead enterprise-wide cross-functional teams to strengthen collaboration.
• Align ELT and senior stakeholders to drive trade-off decisions and shared outcomes.
• Translate stakeholder objectives into outcome-driven execution plans.
• Serve as an integrator across functions and partners.
• Hold initiative leaders accountable for delivery and adoption.
• Lead comprehensive change management strategies to drive readiness and adoption.
• Conduct impact and organizational readiness assessments.
• Monitor adoption effectiveness and adjust strategies as needed.
• Lead communications and engagement efforts across the enterprise.
• Build and drive a consistent operating model cadence.
• Ensure financial governance, budgeting, and value tracking.
• Optimize resource allocation and utilization.
• Align investments to highest-value initiatives.
• Oversee vendor and partner management.
• Establish and enforce enterprise governance frameworks.
• Lead risk identification and mitigation efforts.
• Define and monitor quality and performance standards.
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness.
• Assemble and lead cross-functional teams aligned to program objectives.
• Develop enterprise transformation capabilities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days, parental leave, and bereavement leave
• 401(k) with a company match
• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance options, as well as supplemental health plan options, including accident, critical illness, and hospitalization
• Saving and spending accounts
• Company-paid telemedicine services
• Free counseling and information services
• Wellness program
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid disability coverage
• Adoption assistance
• Education assistance
• Legal service plan option
• Pay advance option

What This Job Offers

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