Director Capital Programs & PMO

Unbottle YOUR Potential at Pepsi Bottling Ventures! At Pepsi, we spread home-grown joy, in our special Pepsi Bottling Ventures way! Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the nation’s largest private bottler and distributor of Pepsi beverages. Pepsi Bottling Ventures is based in NC, SC, MD, & DE.

Job Description Pepsi Bottling Ventures is seeking a Director, Capital Programs & PMO to join our team!

We are jointly owned by Suntory and Pepsi Co. Suntory is a family‑owned business founded in Japan more than 125 years ago that is known globally for their beverages and innovative spirit. Pepsi Co has a 125-year plus legacy as a global leader in convenient foods and beverages. We represent Suntory’s non‑alcoholic beverage industry in the United States and have an 80-year plus legacy of providing Pepsi Co products to the Carolinas and beyond.

We make, sell, and distribute Pepsi Co and more beverages. We have the exclusive rights to make, sell, and distribute directly to stores in our territory the world‑renowned Pepsi Co and Keurig Dr. Pepper beverages. These exclusive rights make up the vast majority of our business and cover certain counties across five states. We also create our own beverages, producing and distributing them to our customers’ warehouses nationally.

And we make, sell, and distribute to our customers’ warehouses a growing portfolio of beverages nationally. These beverages make up a small, but growing part of our business.

We bring you the beverages you love. We bring Pepsi Co’s and Keurig Dr. Pepper’s beloved beverages and more to you and our customers. As a part of Suntory, we believe in dreaming big and boldly pursuing our dreams, growing for good, and giving back to society. We innovate to create new beverages, like our Nature’s Twist refreshing lemonade line, and we continuously expand our beverage portfolio to bring you and our customers joy.

Our leaders embrace a coaching leadership style. We look for leaders that empower all team members. Our leaders value integrity, teamwork, accountability, creativity, and communication in all they do and expect from their teams.

The Director, Capital Programs & PMO is responsible for driving the successful execution of Pepsi Bottling Ventures' capital investment strategy and engineering project portfolio. This position provides leadership across capital planning, portfolio governance, project execution, and organizational project management capabilities. This role combines the responsibilities of a PMO leader, capital program director, and senior engineering project leader. The Director is accountable for establishing project governance, leading portfolio prioritization, managing capital investment planning, and ensuring successful delivery of strategic capital projects that support growth, capacity expansion, productivity improvement, automation, innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.

In addition to overseeing the Engineering PMO and capital portfolio, this position is expected to directly lead the company's largest, most complex, and highest-impact capital projects from concept development through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and project closeout. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership while building strong partnerships across Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, Quality, EHS, and Technology teams to ensure projects deliver measurable business value.

Lead the Engineering PMO strategy, operating model, governance framework, and project management standards.…