Business Strategy Manager

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been voted a Top Employer for the sixth year in a row.

On a larger scale, PepsiCo produces the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 22 product lines that each generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales.

What you’ll be doing:

• Strategic Problem Solving: Evaluate performance and analyse future opportunities utilising an array of data sources. Frame problems, test choices and develop a solution. Inform the long-term strategic agenda of the UK BU with an emphasis on commercial priorities.
• Diagnose: Frame the problem to solve, capture/map the current state and internal/external comparisons and benchmarks.
• Analytics: Understand key drivers through data across fragmented and disparate sources (e.g., external Nielsen / Kantar / ONS / IGD data & internal financial performance).
• Design: Develop solutions in partnership with cross-functional teams and business leaders, find opportunities to enable growth and/or drive productivity/efficiency in the end-to-end value chain, prioritise and align on roadmap of actions across time horizons with key stakeholders.
• Plan & Execute: Drive the execution of initiatives in accordance with approved plans and targets, resolve bottlenecks and track performance against set milestones and goals/criteria.
• Influence & Communication: Facilitate data-based decision making through clear and well-articulated business proposals. Collaborate and partner closely with cross-functional initiative leads to ensure successful realisation of UK BU goals.
• Project Management: Drive governance & portfolio management of UK BU end-to-end Strategy initiatives and integrated roadmap for successful and timely delivery.
• Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic/geopolitical trends and developments.
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from UK BU Strategy & Transformation VP and aligned by UK BU GM/UK Exec.

Responsibilities:

• Support the long-term enterprise strategy of UK BU to deliver sustainable, profitable growth and drive the end-to-end business transformation.
• Partner with the UK Exec and relevant senior & cross-functional stakeholders in UK BU and Europe Sector to ensure successful implementation of data and analytics capability.
• Act as the internal consulting team and business partner to UK BU and Exec team.
• Drive governance of UK BU Strategy & Transformation change agenda providing full BU oversight with clear execution & resourcing plans and key metrics across the strategic pillars.
• Identify, integrate and accelerate the delivery of initiatives and priority programs which drive top-line acceleration and/or bottom-line delivery in line with UK BU Strategic Vision and Transformation agenda.

Qualifications:

• Strategic problem solving & results oriented strategic thinker who demonstrates a bias for action with a can-do approach to work.
• Strong understanding of external data sets and how they can be knitted together.
• Excellent analytical skills, strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and influence effectively at all levels of the BU & Sector organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Team player with the ability to excel in an agile, collaborative, ambiguous environment demonstrating strong people skills.
• Good knowledge of the PepsiCo & UKBU business system and opportunities/challenges, as well as the UK operating environment.
• Ability to drive an agenda autonomously with strong prioritisation skills.