Senior Strategy Manager - Away From Home

PepsiCo • Purchase, NY

22h • Onsite

About The Position

PepsiCo is a global company that invites curious, innovative, and driven individuals to challenge the status quo and make a positive impact. The Away From Home (AFH) division specifically focuses on bringing PepsiCo's diverse portfolio of food and beverage brands to market in out-of-home consumption channels. This dynamic environment requires sophisticated sales and go-to-market strategies to meet consumer needs across various settings. AFH aims to leverage PepsiCo's brand scale to provide a unified customer approach and gain a competitive edge in the growing AFH market. The role of Sr. Strategy Manager is integral to charting PepsiCo's long-term growth and portfolio development within this division, contributing to both the company's future and the industry's evolution. AFH is positioned as a key growth driver, brand builder, and transformation accelerator for PepsiCo, necessitating strategic investments in assets and capabilities to maintain market leadership and adapt to evolving trends. The team tackles complex business challenges by influencing brand, innovation, equipment, and channel strategies, and by driving transformational initiatives like data analytics and online ordering to maximize growth and penetration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 5 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.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable business strategies.
• Excellent technical skills to coach teams to analyze large quantities of data error-free.
• Outstanding project and people management experience with the ability to drive initiatives from concept to execution and a proven record of managing teams or projects cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated high emotional intelligence and strong ability to "manage up".
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to educate, engage, and influence senior executives and stakeholders.
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across different functions and regions.
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
• Role is open to professionals who can work from Purchase, NY.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred
• 7 years of strategy experience either internally or with a Top Tier consulting firm preferred
• Expertise in competitive analysis, market trends, and food and beverage consumer behavior preferred.
• Experience in management consulting for CPG clients preferred.
• Passionate about the Consumer-Packaged Goods ("CPG") industry and love for our brands.

Responsibilities

• Develop actionable solutions for challenging business issues by influencing brand, innovation, equipment, and channel priorities.
• Undertake transformational initiatives (e.g., data & analytics, online ordering) to achieve growth and penetration.
• Engage in long-term strategic planning, annual strategic planning, and growth priority projects (e.g., channel/customer strategy, portfolio).
• Employ a solution-oriented mindset to address PepsiCo’s most challenging, business-critical topics.
• Translate business problems into structured, end-to-end projects, leading them from hypothesis development to final materials.
• Lead analytical workstreams, including deconstructing business issues and developing strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks for analysis with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including challenging the status quo.
• Lead and manage teams to ensure timely and complete deliverables.
• Invest in the professional development of direct reports through coaching, performance reviews, and career guidance.
• Build executive-ready project deliverables.
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from executive leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Maintain an external mindset by staying informed on consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic/geopolitical trends.
• Contribute to capability building for the Global Strategy function (e.g., recruiting, training, knowledge management).

Benefits

• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• 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: Senior