Senior Director Corporate Strategy PepsiCo Purchase

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The Corporate Strategy team is focused on providing broad, strategic vision for PepsiCo and identifying and evaluating new growth initiatives. Working closely with sector managers and with the support of the Corporate Strategy team, the Senior Director will formulate the company's strategic vision. She/He will lead problem solving and opportunity evaluation, including strategic and financial analysis and the creation of business plans for high potential opportunities.

The Senior Director will take a leadership role, with others in the department, in the annual Strategic Plan development effort and promote strategic development through extensive competitive analysis and by advancing the interests of the company at conferences, trade shows, and meetings with companies. This person will provide broad, strategic input into potential mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures to ensure maximum returns on invested capital and consistency with the overall business.

Blending strong internal capabilities with creative, external perspectives, the successful candidate will champion new initiatives that demonstrate breakthrough thinking. With direct access to senior executives, this individual will lead highly visible projects that will have a significant impact on the direction and performance of the company.

Accountabilities:

Identify and define business questions and issues and develop strategic, analytical and financial frameworks to conduct analyses
Assist in the planning and execution of the Global Strategic Planning Processes and global review
Strong capability in developing and designing implementation plans to drive execution
Demonstrate strong leadership and significant influence management skills with the ability to gain credibility with team members and senior management
Define creative, out-of-the-box thinking to identify white space opportunities and formulate an approach to address the identified opportunity

Qualifications:

10+ years of strategy experience in a variety of positions both internally and externally.
BA required (MBA strongly preferred)
Highly analytical, motivated, decisive through leader with excellent managerial skills.
Strategic mind with an ability to thin broadly, refine question, and influence multiple decision makers
Current consumer packaged goods experience to be able to both identify and initiate appropriate partnership alliances and acquisitions
Thought leadership and commercial implementation with a track record of developing and delivering high impact and successful consumer products strategies with the context of a top tier strategic consulting firm or significant strategic planning experience in a corporate environment
Track record of taking calculated risks for the long-term benefit of the organization and is thereby considered an extremely progressive thought-leader
Communication skills that is able to educate and influence management and senior leaders to act in a desired manner through written and verbal communication
Analytical and negotiating skills as evidence by high intelligence, strong financial and analytical capabilities and the proven ability to develop, sell and drive suitable partnerships, alliances, or other transactions to closure
Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences

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