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Position Overview:

PepsiCo is one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies with more than $67 Billion in Net Revenue and a global portfolio of diverse and beloved brands. We have a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes 22 brands that each generated more than $1 Billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s products are sold in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo’s strength is its people. We are over 250,000 game changers, mountain movers and history makers, located around the world, and united by a shared set of values and goals.

Over the past year, we have accelerated our efforts to help make the food system more sustainable, regenerative and inclusive. From how we source ingredients, make and sell our products in a more sustainable way, inspire consumers through our iconic brands to make better choices for themselves and the planet; to how we support communities and improve livelihoods throughout our supply chain, we are embracing our role as a leader among our peers and in our communities.

pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) is the future of our organization – a strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. It is our roadmap for becoming the global leader in convenient foods and beverages and a leading actor in the transformation of the global food system.

Under our pep+ sustainability strategy, we’re driven by three ambitious pillars:

Positive Agriculture+ where we’re working to source our crops and ingredients in ways that restore the earth and strengthens farming communities. Including spreading regenerative agriculture practices across seven million acres – an area approximately the size of our agricultural footprint.

Positive Value Chain+ that will transform how we make products in a way that build a circular, inclusive economy while making a positive impact on the planet and people. Goals include achieving net-zero emissions across our value chain by 2040, net water positive by 2030, and a sustainable packaging agenda, targets, and vision to create a world where packaging never becomes waste.

Positive Choices+ that is inspiring people, through brands to make choices that create more smiles for them and the planet every day. Including goals to accelerate our reduction of added sugars and sodium using science-based targets across our portfolio and offering more products with healthier oils by 2025.

As well as being good for our business, working to realize this purpose is also the right thing to do. Where our food system may be operating in an unsustainable way, it can create supply chain, operational, and financial risks for our company. By contrast, addressing risks within our value chain and the wider food system effectively can create new opportunities for competitive advantage and future market growth, while also supporting the communities in which we operate.

The Associate Manager will join PepsiCo’s Global Sustainability Office to elevate our strategic partnership platform in support of our pep+ sustainability agenda. In this role, she/he will support PepsiCo’s engagement with key global sustainability partners, develop processes and tools for elevating the internal capabilities around partnerships, and monitor and analyze the external landscape as it relates to sustainability partnerships. The role will require the candidate to work constructively with both a variety of internal colleagues across different functional and geographic backgrounds as well as a portfolio of external partners across different subject matter focus areas.

Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain process and tools for documenting progress and opportunities against global strategic partnership portfolio
• Develop process and tools for ensuring internal awareness and connectivity on key global partnerships
• Work with colleagues on Sustainable Investments, R&D, Global Procurement and Public Policy teams to provide critical input and guidance regarding partnership activities
• Manage PepsiCo’s engagement in selected workstreams of partner organizations
• Monitor and evaluate partnership initiatives of key companies within CPG industry and across industry’s value chain
• Identify future priority topic areas for partnership engagement, via discussion with key partners
• Proactively identify and screen new partnership opportunities
• Draft briefings for senior executives ahead of key meetings and events with partners
• Support development of materials for internal meetings, including agendas, pre-reads and presentation materials

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• 3-5+ years of experience in sustainability, corporate partnerships, foundations, multilateral organizations, public policy or other related fields
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to effectively collaborate across a broad range of stakeholders to deliver project outcomes
• Strong understanding of corporate sustainability landscape, trends, and emerging issues
• Outstanding project management skills
• Ability to work in matrix organization; handle competing priorities; influence others to deliver performance
• Passion for sustainability
• Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences
• COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role. Please note that all such company vaccine requirements provide the opportunity to request an approved accommodation or exemption under applicable law.

Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation
Job Type: Regular

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all other applicable laws, including but not limited to, San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901 – 4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance; and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.