Procurement Manager - Innovation & Commercialization (North America)

Innovation & Commercialization Procurement Role

Location : This role is located at PepsiCo's Purchase, NY HQ office. Relocation is not offered for this position.

Office Setting : This role is HYBRID with a minimum of 3 days in office.

The Innovation & Commercialization team provides end-to-end North America (NA) Procurement support for Innovation programs (solution design, speed to market, risk mitigation and graphics excellence) and operates as the face of Procurement throughout the commercialization process. This role is critical to ensure internal communication flows across all stakeholders, and suppliers are prepared and ready for the hundreds of projects launched annually.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of Direct Procurement innovation readiness tasks (charter to launch)
• Lead communication with Suppliers, Procurement Category & Supply Leads, Brand Marketing and Integration Teams
• Collaborate cross functionally (Supply Chain, R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Planning, etc.) to understand and assess business needs and mitigate risks
• Document processes, deliverables and schedules for multiple projects
• Provide project updates to Procurement organization via the Monthly Innovation Meeting Forum
• Manage, hire and train a team of 1-2 analysts (direct reports)
• Support material pricing requests
• Track and manage creation and payment of purchase orders
• Management and tracking of Graphics Service Providers performance for all involved projects measured by performance with pre-determined KPI's, including, but not limited to, strict adherence to PepsiCo packaging graphics process, accurate graphics separations, printer knowledge, and timely hand off of graphics files to packaging printers

Compensation and Benefits :

Qualifications

Requirements :

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.

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

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