Strategy Manager, Away From Home

PepsiCo•Town/Village of Harrison, NY

8d•$110,700 - $185,250

About The Position

PepsiCo Away From Home (“AFH”) is a division of PepsiCo that brings the company's entire portfolio of food and beverage brands to market in out-of-home consumption channels. The AFH operating environment is complex and highly dynamic, requiring diverse sales and go-to-market systems to meet consumer needs at work, at play, and on the go. PepsiCo AFH leverages the scale and breadth of the company's brands to provide a unified voice to its customers and deliver a competitive advantage in the fast-growing AFH channel. The AFH Strategy team is part of PepsiCo’s broader Strategy network and works globally across PepsiCo’s entire portfolio of beverages, snacks and nutrition. Our function plays a critical role in charting PepsiCo’s long-term growth and portfolio development, driving both the future of the company and shaping the industry landscape. AFH is a key enabler of PepsiCo’s strategy, serving as a source of profitable growth, a vehicle to build our brands, and a transformation accelerator. We are tasked with ensuring the company invests in the assets and capabilities needed to stay ahead of the competition, adapt to market trends, and maintain market leadership. This entails developing actionable solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing the company by influencing brand, innovation, equipment and channel priorities and by undertaking transformational initiatives (e.g., data & analytics, online ordering) to achieve the greatest possible growth and penetration. Our team primarily works across three types of projects: long term strategic planning, annual strategic planning, and growth priorities (e.g., channel / customer strategy, portfolio, etc.).

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required (MBA strongly preferred)
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
Excellent technical skills to process large quantities of data in an error-free manner
Experience independently running projects
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; foreign language skills highly desired

Responsibilities

Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of PepsiCo Away From Home’s most challenging, business critical, topics
Own end-to-end delivery against project objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials
Serve as the analytics point-person on projects, applying logical and creative thinking to drive to fact-based insights
Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo
Lead & coach analysts to deliver on-time and complete deliverables
Build executive-ready project deliverables in partnership with project leaders
Assist in the planning and execution of key Away From Home projects (e.g., Segment growth strategy, Category strategy, Technology transformation etc.)
Execute against time-sensitive requests from the Away From Home Global President, SVP- Strategy, and cross-functional business partners
Provide thought partnership to Away From Home 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.)