Fleet Engineering Manager

PepsiCo Fleet Engineer Manager

At PepsiCo, you'll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including Gatorade, Lay's and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day. At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve. Whatever your role, you'll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

The PepsiCo Supply Chain Operations group provides a demanding, fast-paced environment in a competitive industry, where growth equals opportunity and fun accompanies the challenge. We are proud to say that PepsiCo has one of the most advanced and sophisticated supply chain environments in all North America. This role provides an opportunity to begin a career at PepsiCo with unlimited growth potential. The areas of focus for this position are designed to build future leaders within our organization and groom candidates for executive leadership roles. The PepsiCo Fleet Engineering Team is a high-performing team, responsible for building strategies that guide and influence asset design, sustainability improvements, productivity, and capital leverage. The Fleet Engineer Manager will lead the development of new technologies across a range of Class 2-8 assets that improve safety, reliability, and sustainability performance across the PepsiCo North American Fleet. This individual will work closely with Frontline Fleet Technicians, Fleet Technology and Transformation teams to incorporate automation, connectivity, and electrification into our future assets.

Responsibilities

This individual will bring strong technical skills with an engineering or automotive background and experience in the transportation industry. A successful candidate will have the ability to lead supplier discussions and help commercialize new technologies. This role will support the 1 North America Fleet organization, bridging fleet strategies across the PepsiCo organization.

• Lead the technical design, specifications, and requirements of fleet assets
• Partner with other Fleet COE teams to align strategic direction and equipment commercialization timelines
• Ownership of developing field training resource materials.
• Leverage technical competencies to provide new insights on design and optimization
• Utilization of increased technology, data access to generate insights on asset and infrastructure performance and usage to create visibility, support decision making for end users
• Demonstrate strong leadership and significant influence management skills with the ability to quickly gain credibility with a broad group of people team members, cross-functional peers, and functional leadership.
• Ensure field, stakeholder engagement and necessary training on use, function, and benefits to the introduction of our electrified fleet, including infrastructure, efficiency, and safety components
• Partner with key internal teams and external suppliers to optimize assets for PepsiCo's
• Deliver key business results and build systems to sustain improvements

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $110,700 - $185,250.
• 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 12% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Qualifications

Skills:

• Technical Degree and Experience: Relevant education and background in engineering, fleet operations, automotive, or supply chain in a large fortune 500 company.
• Creative Problem Solving: Ability and passion for creative, out-of-the-box thinking to develop and vet solutions for the business, as well as a willingness to question the status quo and generally accepted beliefs.
• Influencing & Communication Skills: Possess the ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, both verbal and written, at all levels of an organization; ability to influence others and communicate in an open and honest way that quickly builds trust and respect.
• Entrepreneurial or Business Development Mentality: Beyond fleet, candidates must exhibit experience in driving action against the supply chain to execute key initiatives.
• Analytical Rigor & Financial Acumen: Strong financial acumen and ability to conduct in-depth analytic work.
• Structured & Logical Thinking: Ability to define business problems and discern what is important.
• Project Management Capabilities: The demonstrated capability to manage multiple stakeholders to high-quality output against regular deadlines.
• Passion for the Consumer and for Consumer-Packaged Goods: An ongoing desire to make one of the world's strongest CPG companies even stronger and experience developing growth strategies leveraging consumer insights.
• Leadership: Bring a "servant leadership" mentality, with the ability to quickly identify how to add value and skill to balance a bias for a leadership role while equally able to work collaboratively within teams.
• Motivation: Self-motivated, high-energy individual who can easily function in a high-demand, performance-driven environment.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Awareness of emerging trends and competitive activity in the marketplace.
• Cultural Sensitivity: Understand cultural and social differences in key markets and potential secondary markets.
• Comfort in Ambiguity: Adaptability in less-structured environments (able to "jump in" and contribute even when facts are not yet 100% clear); ability to quickly figure out solutions to complex issues.
• Tenacity: Persistent and resilient in the pursuit of objectives, can shift gears easily, is willing to take on new challenges, and works to resolve issues.
• Technical Skills: Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Degree: BS Degree in Engineering required
• 5-10 years' experience in Automotive Engineering, Fleet, Transportation, or Supply Chain organization.
• Ability to travel to field locations, vendors, and industry events up to 50%
• Leadership ability to develop talent and lead across complex organizations and problems and ability to deliver in ambiguous environments
• Collaboration ability to navigate working across PBNA and FLNA fleets, range of key stakeholders supporting strategic, transformative initiatives
• Process and program management - ability to evaluate & optimize solutions for desired impact
• Influence - ability to clearly communicate and win support of ideas and plans to all levels of the organization, both written and verbally, across entities
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate organizational and industry considerations to outline a roadmap of future fleet
• Vendor management and development - Ability to manage external parties to comply with PepsiCo requirements and deliver in full and on time; ability to identify and develop emerging vendors and their capabilities
• Proven ability to manage large and complicated projects