Associate Strategy Manager

Overview

Pepsi Co is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to team members on the front lines, we’re excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.

Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At Pepsi Co, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.

A career at Pepsi Co means working in a culture where everyone’s welcome. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world  showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow your skills for the future. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact on people and the planet.

Join us. Dare for Better

Pepsi Co Away From Home (“AFH”) is a division of Pepsi Co 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. Pepsi Co 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.

As an Associate Manager on the AFH Strategy team, you are part of Pepsi Co’s broader Strategy network and work globally across Pepsi Co’s entire portfolio of beverages, snacks and nutrition. Our function plays a critical role in charting Pepsi Co’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 Pepsi Co’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.).

What Will Make You Succeed:

• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of Pepsi Co Away From Home’s most challenging, business critical, topics
• Own end-to-end delivery against workstream 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
• Build project deliverables in partnership with project leaders
• Assist in the planning and execution of key Away From Home strategy projects (e.g., Go To Market Strategy, Away From Home Growth Model, etc.)
• Provide thought partnership to Strategy 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 Strategy function (e.g. Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.)

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $93,500 - $156,450.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be…