Senior Director, Enterprise Stakeholder Engagement

Overview

The Senior Director of Enterprise Stakeholder Engagement will lead Pepsi Co’s enterprise-wide approach to identifying, prioritizing, and engaging external stakeholders across North America. This role is responsible for building and executing a unified stakeholder engagement strategy that aligns with enterprise priorities, ensures appropriate senior‑level participation, and strengthens Pepsi Co’s credibility, influence, and long‑term external relationships.

Operating at the intersection of strategy, leadership engagement, quantitative analysis, and cross‑functional coordination, this role helps the enterprise navigate complex external environments while driving a clear, consistent, and intentional approach to stakeholder engagement.

The ideal candidate will bring strong quantitative, analytical, and statistical capabilities to systematically identify, model, and quantify organizational risks using standardized, data‑driven methodologies that inform governance and stakeholder strategy.

• Own and evolve Pepsi Co’s enterprise stakeholder engagement framework, including stakeholder mapping, prioritization, and governance processes.
• Maintain a centralized, enterprise-wide view of external stakeholders to enable visibility, coordination, and strategic alignment.
• Apply consistent, enterprise-wide criteria to assess stakeholder relevance, influence, risk exposure, and strategic alignment.
• Ensure stakeholder engagement and funding decisions reflect enterprise priorities and reinforce Pepsi Co’s broader external strategy.
• Lead structured review and alignment processes for enterprise-level stakeholder engagement decisions, ensuring transparency, consistency, and accountability.

• Design dashboards, models, and decision support systems that inform enterprise strategy and stakeholder management.
• Conduct quantitative risk assessment, probability modeling, scenario analysis, forecasting, and development of risk metrics, indices, and scoring frameworks that translate uncertainty into actionable insights.
• Integrate quantitative findings into governance and stakeholder engagement strategies, linking risk exposure to operational, reputational, regulatory, and social impact considerations.
• Use data-driven methodologies to help the enterprise anticipate emerging stakeholder trends, external pressures, and evolving expectations.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders (including SVP, EVP, and CEO level stakeholders as appropriate) on external stakeholder engagement strategy.
• Provide insights and recommendations to inform executive decision making related to engagement focus, leadership participation, and enterprise positioning.
• Enable senior leaders to engage externally with clarity, confidence, and consistency.

• Partner closely with Community Relations, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Communications, the Pepsi Co Foundation, Inclusion for Growth/EE, Legal, and other relevant teams.
• Drive alignment across functions while respecting relationship ownership and functional expertise.
• Facilitate cross-functional dialogue and coordination on significant changes in stakeholder engagement or funding approaches.

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $157,200 - $312,000.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 35% of annual salary paid out annually and an additional target payout of 15% of annual salary is paid out over 3 years following the end of the performance period.
• Long term incentive equity may be awarded based on eligibility and performance.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, Pepsi Co offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections…