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 $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, 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.

In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch, or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go. We refresh, restore, and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and Bokomo range of cereals. PepsiCo SA employs more than 13, 000 people across our three business divisions: Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.

Responsibilities

We're looking for an Organizational Change Manager to join our team. The Change Manager plays a vital role in ensuring effective and sustainable implementations for initiatives that have a high complexity and cross functional impact. They are responsible for planning, implementing, and overseeing changes to achieve goals while minimizing disruptions. They collaborate with stakeholders, assess impacts, and develop strategies for successful implementation.

Accountabilities:

Works as a project team member and leads the change management work stream for the initiative
Plans, implements, and oversees changes of initiative to achieve goals while minimizing disruptions
Collaborates with stakeholders, assesses impacts, and develops strategies for successful implementation
Leverages change management methodology, tools and training to provide effective execution and support to business leaders
Builds change management capability through ongoing coaching and enablement of business leaders and initiative owners

Specific deliverables for the high complexity initiatives that have a cross functional impact include:

Case for Change: Compile a compelling change narrative that inspires people to strive together to create that future.
Leadership Alignment: Engage and align with leaders to ensure that they understand the business value of the change, the impact on line managers and employees, and actively play the role of change leaders to drive adoption in their business areas
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Develop an engagement strategy for relevant stakeholders and impacted audiences and execute a plan to drive awareness through to understanding and adoption.
Change Impact assessments + mitigation: Identify the changes that are brought about by the initiative, determine the resulting impacts and address the impacts and associated risks in a structured manner.
Change Network: Connect a network of Change Agents to drive and manage the change impacts identified.
Training: Co-ordinate the delivery of training in order to equip users with sufficient skills and knowledge to be successful once the changes have gone live, and to ensure the sustainability of the implementation.
Change Readiness: Define the KPIs that determine the willingness and ability of people to transition to the new state, measure, monitor and take actions to ensure readiness
Measuring Results: Define the desired business enablement and key performance indicators to be measured and managed after go-live. Analyze and identify trends, patterns and root causes affecting adoption.
Extract meaningful insights from data to inform decision-making and planning. Develop clear, actionable plans based on insights.

Qualifications

Five years of experience in the field of Change Management, Communications, and / or project management
Transformation or IT implementation experience is a bonus
Project experience required
Bachelor's of Science or equivalent in a Communications, Marketing, Business Management/Administration, Consulting or a related field
Strong experience of delivering organisational change management activities across multiple business units
Ability to manage Stakeholder Owners to ensure full leadership support
Strong communication development and delivery skills (PPT, video, writing, live presentation)
Consultative skills on change management efforts
Sees the bigger picture, able to look ahead to anticipate and address issues
Strong problem solving, facilitation and relationship skills
Internal consulting skills underpinned by strong analytical capabilities
Ability to navigate in the matrix, getting objectives achieved through others