Change Management Senior Manager for Supply chain

Overview

Pepsi Co’s Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization has been established to drive Pepsi Co’s Digital Transformation and critical strategic initiatives globally, for all sectors and functions. Within the S&T organization, we are building our Change Center of Excellence. The Change COE enables the S&T strategic agenda by providing CM expertise supporting Pepsi Co’s “Big Bets.” The Change CoE will lead Change Management for priority transformation programs by owning change management, global frameworks and tools, and through growing S&T Change talent.

To enable this purpose, we are looking for a Change Management Senior Manager with change expertise and proven experience supporting large and complex transformational projects; applying change tools and techniques to assess, diagnose, design, support, deliver and execute custom solutions needed for the successful delivery of the project. This role will work with key stakeholders across programs and focus on developing, managing, and executing transformational activities.

Decision Intelligence (DI) is a new priority program at Pepsi Co that focuses on digital enablement across end‑to‑end supply chain capabilities, redefining ways of working within and across functions, driving faster and data‑based decision making, spend compliance and supplier partnership, and accelerating top and bottom‑line growth. The DI Change Management Sr. Manager will play a key role in strategy enablement, culture transformation, and process and tool adoption of this new transformational capability across Pepsi Co.

The primary responsibility for this role will be formulating and implementing enterprise‑wide change management strategies and plans to embody the mindsets and behaviors needed for a successful rollout of the new global E2E process. The CM COE Senior Manager for DI will oversee all facets of organizational change, including assessing change readiness, engaging stakeholders, developing and executing communication and training strategies, creating and delivering training outlines and content, identifying quick wins, crafting success and inspirational stories, promoting process and tool adoption, enabling new ways of working, and, if necessary, contributing to organizational design.

This role will report into the Strategy & Transformation – Transformation and Process Excellence Change Management COE Lead with a matrixed reporting relationship into the SVP S&T Service Delivery and is responsible for leading and coordinating a smooth change journey in partnership with key stakeholders (IBP, PGT, Supply Chain & Ops).

• Partner with global program leadership and market teams to shape Change Management program strategy.
• Develop and execute detailed change management plans for DI local and global sprints – plan, integrate and sustain for every market.
• Identify and assess market complexity, readiness, change integration/interdependency opportunities and risks.
• Map key leadership stakeholders across functions and sectors and steer program‑level engagements and tailored interventions to mitigate adoption risks.
• Develop the strategy to engage and successfully maintain strong relationships with global and functional leadership teams (SVPs, VPs) to execute the transformation at scale and create conviction in reimagining work, enabling the successful adoption and outcomes of the new e2e process.
• Influence senior stakeholders across the organization to achieve the DI strategic agenda.
• Collaborate closely with the DI Global Process Owner and other CM leads in the successful transformation initiatives (e.g., PGT, IBP) and evolution of S&T strategy to E2E.
• Drive program‑specific high‑level change impact workshops to identify key impacts and potential change risks, designing and delivering organizational enablers that promote readiness actions and ultimately adoption.
• Shape program‑level key communications such as case‑for‑change, WIIFM, change narratives and success stories to inspire and embed long‑lasting change and socialise these communications using multiple channels such as SharePoint.
• Develop a training strategy and plan that aligns with program and market…