Sr Manager Strategic Foresight & Future Visions

About the job

Overview

We are PepsiCo Design, and our mission is to inspire the future through the work we imagine, develop and execute. Our goal is to connect PepsiCo's beverage, snacks and food portfolios with consumers who seek meaningful, sustainable, authentic and relevant experiences across multiple touch points and regions of the world.

Why Design Innovation?

Our mission is to drive the sustainability & innovation agendas for PepsiCo's Global brands and businesses to help it grow and transform beyond its core. We drive circularity and innovation by researching, strategizing, defining, prototyping, learning, and launching strategically aligned and commercially viable new products, services, business models, retail experiences, brands and systems. We challenge and seek to change how PepsiCo works to drive true business innovation with more sustainability and purpose.

We are a creatively driven team that leverages the power of four lenses (desirability, feasibility, viability, sustainability) led Design Thinking to solve strategic problems from system level business challenges to designing new eating experiences, their packaging and delivery systems.

We leverage tools from product design, design research, system thinking, strategic foresight, business model design, service design and circular economy; to solve problems, for people and the planet, in the real world. We innovate to incite positive change – for people, brands, business, and the world around us. We know what it takes to make ideas a reality and bring that into everything we do.

You are…

• Self-starting with entrepreneurial spirit
• Able to toggle between strategy & execution
• Adept managing ambiguity
• Excited by complexity
• Resilient with hustle
• Energized by challenges
• Always questioning & improving
• Optimistic & curious
• A creative multi-disciplinary fluid thinker who never gives up
• Someone who lives to bring your ideas to life
• Empathetic to consumers and internal stakeholders
• Fluent in design and conversant on emerging design, sustainability, food, and nutrition trends
• Good at storytelling, visually & verbally
• Comfortable multitasking
• Passionate about enacting change to improve the world and how we nourish ourselves

Responsibilities

Successful candidates will demonstrate :

They understand how to translate those strategies into testable prototypes and evaluate them against desirability, feasibility, viability & sustainability as part of a XF team. They are adept at managing highly complex assignments and concurrent initiatives across varied project types

They are comfortable managing the ambiguity inherent in design processes. The Manager understands design methodologies (tools, techniques) and can provide input into design proposals (visions, scenarios) to execute against creative engagements and visualize the desired creative output

Strategic Project Manager & Collaborator :

Working on projects that have critical business significance you will demonstrate the agility to lead strategy, planning, project management. You will be familiar with working in a multi-disciplinary environment, leading interdisciplinary Cross-Functional teams

Partnering with the Design Innovation Senior Director and working alongside the cross functional innovation team, they are expected to lead projects and engage with a variety of stakeholders to get input, assess options and influence direction. They work across all aspects of strategic innovation development leading opportunity identification projects to business, design and sustainability strategies for new business opportunities. They will synthesize research and business needs to ensure identified opportunities & strategies result in sustainable growth and returns for the business

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Relocation Eligible :

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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