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Position Overview:

Overview

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $80 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com. 

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 plays a critical role in our Positive Agriculture agenda.  This role will provide effective project management to all the Positive Agriculture initiatives in the U.S., including coordinating and managing partners and other stakeholders in execution and liaising closely with PepsiCo internal teams and other stakeholders as needed.

Responsibilities

• Project manage key implementers (PFI, PCM, SWOF) and suppliers (ADM) to help successful delivery of implementation & manage monthly update tracking
  • Work with PCM, PFI, SWOF and Field to Market partners to develop and implement plans to take in USDA funding
  • Work with ADM to ensure implementation of work plans agains core crops
• Represent PepsiCo on key external bodies in the US
• Serve on working committees of MRCC & Field to Market
• Liaise with GSO carbon team on accounting and reporting
• Liaise with S&P around key supplier engagement in US
• Support maintaining sustainably sourced in direct crops
• Troubleshooting and support as needed for resolving barriers to implementation.
  • Advise Agro teams and Procurement on executional plans, progress and AOP implications
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships and effectively leverage third-party resources
  • Identify and develop collaboration opportunities (with customers, peer companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government) to address locally-relevant risks and opportunities
  • Identify and vet local solution providers (external companies/organizations) that can be leveraged for the deployment of impact projects.
  • Seek out proven solutions (e.g. agronomic practices, technologies, tools) that enhance agricultural sustainability and support the PepsiCo Positive / Agriculture agenda.

• Coordinate the sector implementation and reporting of progress for PepsiCo’s agricultural Regen Ag goal
  • Drive data collection and analysis for internal and external monitoring, reporting and learning.
  • Coordinate agro teams and key consultants executing data collection & analysis and identification of opportunities
  • Report creation and support communication and engagement of impact
  • Track and coordinate implementation and progress of the action plans with the sectorial SFP Deployment Leads; support teams to update the plans as necessary.
  • Create capacity building at global level through the global “Champions network”, support innovation farm trials and collaborations (e.g. 3rd parties/external companies)  across sectors and support the lift and shift globally
• Track, interpret and communicate impact
  • Collate learnings from projects to feed into global Regen Ag reporting
  • Develop recommendations from work on the ground to feed other regions and their planning- including innovative finace, etc.
  • Communicate requirements and ensure acquisition of impact-specific data according to the improvement plans as well as to meet internal & external reporting requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture, International Development, Business Management or similar
• Experience with corn, soy, wheat sugar beet or other row crop systems, including working with companies in the region (candidates with direct private sector experience preferred)
• Excellent project management skills and experience, particularly managing multiple stakeholders with different priorities
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills
• Excellent skills in data analysis and in identifying and communicating data insights
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Ability to work remotely/independently, proactively and with a high degree of automony and manage others
• Experience working with Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies a plus but not required
• 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

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $100,000 to $120,000.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 10% of annual salary paid out annually.
• 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

EEO Statement

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

If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

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