Benchmarking and Insights Director (Cost Transformation Accelerator)

Overview

The Team

The Cost Transformation Accelerator (CTX) team's mission is to drive strategic transformation of our costs to enable PepsiCo's ambitious growth & profitability aspirations. The Cost Benchmarking & Visibility (CB&V) team is a critical component of CTX that leverages deep, strategic insights and analytics to help the organization identify and pursue areas of cost transformation for our biggest markets and cost categories.

In addition to driving insights, the CB&V team will also be building a digital benchmarking solution that will provide enhanced cost visibility across our key markets across the globe. The team will systematically execute deep dives that support market cost transformation while also providing key inputs into the tool's design.

The Job

This Benchmarking and Insights Director role will work closely with market leaders and functional experts across our top markets within PepsiCo for both Foods and Beverages. This role will be heavily focused on conducting strategic deep dives into key productivity opportunities across Make, Move, and Sell to solve, identify and prioritize incremental cost transformation opportunities markets could pursue. The work will be fast-paced, mostly project-based, deeply analytical, and hinge on the ability to translate analytics into clear and compelling stories that influence the organization.

To be successful in this role you will need to be perpetually curious, enjoy building an intimate knowledge of our cost structure, operating models, and profit drivers, and be fueled by analytically linking key choices to key outcomes end-to-end at a granular and actionable level. A thorough understanding of E2E costs across Make, Move, and Sell and exposure to key P&L lines will be critical for success. The individual will also need to be comfortable learning and thinking E2E about our top global markets, managing global stakeholders and global processes. The role currently has one direct report will need to be able to lead diverse matrixed teams via highly collaborative ways of working in a project-based environment. In addition, you should be comfortable with building and giving presentations to multiple levels of the organization and have strong organization /time-management skills.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Execute deep analytical efforts to deconstruct critical E2E business issues while developing strategic, operational, and financial analyses that point to insights and opportunities for our top global markets to pursue
• Challenge the status quo to help key markets build and maintain their cost transformation pipelines, including synthesizing findings from complex analyses into a clear and logical presentations to educate and steer key business owners
• Provide thought partnership to global business partners on a broad range of business-critical topics
• Selectively develop external perspectives through relevant and actionable benchmarks
• Collaborate with operations, GTM, Corporate Strategy, FP&A, commercial, Data & Analytics and other teams to codify process and tools to replicate and scale in additional markets

Compensation & Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $132,200 - $262,400.
• 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 25% of annual salary paid out annually and an additional target payout of 10% 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, 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

Experience Required

• Minimum 7 years experience; Multi-disciplinary or consulting experience preferred;
• Bachelors degree required, MBA preferred
• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and communicate clearly in both verbal and written form
• Highly analytical thinker with sound business judgment and strong technical skills to process large quantities of data
• Ability to work through high degrees of ambiguity and be self-directed in a dynamic and highly collaborate environment
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across multiple functions

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