Global Food Consumer Insights Senior Manager

The Global Foods Group (GFG) Insights team is on the forefront of the Insights transformation in PepsiCo. The team is the voice of the consumer and an essential strategic driver in the organization to unlock growth for the Global Foods portfolio at PepsiCo.

This role will be responsible for the independent leadership and execution of insights work for the Foods Transformation/Positively Culinary platform. This platform is linked with the efforts to move the PepsiCo foods business in a culinary direction, also covering parts of the work on the Away from Home channel. As a critical partner to the GFG Foods Transformation and other cross-functional teams (including Strategy, Commercialization, R&D, Marketing and Design), this role works to ensure that the decisions we make are grounded in human centricity.

Key challenges/unique aspects of the position

• Global projects have multiple stakeholders in different teams/geographies – to drive the agenda, strong influencing skills are required. Cultural sensitivity and empathy is a must.
• Global roles tend to have changing priorities; flexibility, adaptation to change of the course, dealing with ambiguity is critical.
• Global Foods agendas are often leadership’s high priority agendas. This person needs to have professional maturity to interact with stakeholders across all functions and levels, including senior leadership.

• Lead global insight studies to uncover consumer needs, occasions, targets and key drivers related to meals, culinary culture and the Away from Home channel.
• Embed these insights across global and local teams through a variety of methods, such as workshops and digital tools.
• Collaborate with the Global Insights Capabilities team on the Food and Beverage Occasions (formerly Demand Spaces) roll-out, ensuring the Global Foods perspective is central in the work.
• Partner closely with the GFG Foods Transformation and Positively Culinary teams to drive key cross-brand communication and growth platforms. May also engage in adjacent food-centric workstreams with Away From Home initiatives.
• Shape the insights foundation for Meaningful Food & Beverage Experiences in the Powering Positive Growth capability framework.
• Elevate Human Centricity in GFG by embedding the voice of consumers in all workstreams and empower non-Insights team members and stakeholders with consumer reality and empathy.
• Build strong, two-way relationships with Insights partners in other business units and geographies, ensuring a truly collaborative approach so that the insights agenda and innovation/portfolio initiatives have global impact, alignment, and synergies. Influence and surface when research or strategies are in conflict or duplicative.
• Maximize impact of our external partners and internally developed resources (e.g. Always on Engine, Ada, Demand Spaces, Panel Data, Change Compass etc.) by ensuring our investments yield actionable and incremental insights.
• Influence the discussion and agenda of senior stakeholders and decision makers, including the Senior Director of Positively Culinary and other cross functional leads.
• Travel – willingness to travel up to 20%.
• Location: Purchase/NYC based preferred, open to Plano/Dallas and Chicago.

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $106,300 - $177,850 based on a full-time schedule.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 15% 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.

• Minimum 10 years in Insights with experience in custom qualitative and quantitative consumer research and analytics.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization with cross-functional teams; experience working in global role a plus.
• Strong familiarity and comfort with analyzing syndicated retail and panel data – incl. IRI, Kantar World Panel, Nielsen, Euromonitor, Global Data
• Minimum Bachelor's Degree. Advanced Degree a plus.

• Strong ability to balance insights with a keen understanding of the business context, in order to achieve optimal impact on cross-functional stakeholders.
• Curiosity and growth mindset – strong curiosity to dig deeper, seek to understand better, and build a collective/well-thought point of view and perspective.
• Strategic thinker – able to influence above project management by clarifying the problem to solve, have an understanding of what the work will influence at the end, and ensure key decision points during the process are in line with both of those things.
• Storytelling – a clear communicator, who can deliver insights and learning in an engaging, thought-provoking manner, cutting through the complexity to tell a simple, compelling narrative.
• Relationship building – network internally to influence highly matrixed teams and demonstrate success in working across functions.
• Bias for action and proactivity – able to anticipate the needs of the business and drive the agenda vs. reacting to requests.
• Analytical horsepower – high comfort level interrogating data, bringing multiple data sources and frameworks together to provide understanding and guidance to complex business problems.
• Creative problem solver with a highly organized approach to managing complexity – able to think creatively & holistically, must be comfortable with high levels of complexity and open-ended questions.
• Strong initiative and results orientation, with a positive and pragmatic attitude to adversity.