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 nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, and Quaker. 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.

Own and govern the MU IBP operating rhythm (iS&OE and iS&OP), ensuring decision-ready forums, high-quality inputs, and sustained process adherence, while monitoring, assessing and driving continuous improvement across the three pillars of people, process and systems, in line with the global template and standard of excellence.

The scope covers all Categories in the MU and requires cross-functional leadership across Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Finance and Procurement. From a process compliance and improvement perspective, the role partners with the Global IBP Centre of Excellence, IT and D&A to embed standards and deliver measurable improvements.

This role is critical to the MU because IBP is the primary governance process through which the business makes key planning and performance decisions, translating cross-functional plans into executable actions and outcomes.

Responsibilities: Owns the preparation, execution, and continuous improvement of the MU IBP operating rhythm (iS&OE and iS&OP), ensuring decision-ready forums and effective execution of agreed outcomes.
• Owns and governs the end-to-end iS&OE and iS&OP cadence, standards, and operating rhythm; attends all iS&OE and iS&OP forums.
• Kicks off each forum and facilitates review of prior-cycle decisions, key actions, learnings, risks/gaps, and required escalations; ensures the forum lands with a clear “what changed / what we decide / what we do next”.
• Approves forum readiness and enforces entry criteria (minimum data quality, completeness, assumptions, scenario logic, gaps, and risks); returns packs for rework when criteria are not met and escalates repeated non-compliance.
• Owns the consolidated MU IBP packs and ensures materials are decision-ready; coordinates with functional leads to secure timely updates while ensuring quality and consistency across Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, and Demand Planning.
• Owns the MU decision log and escalation routing (what must be decided in the forum vs escalated to DMR/SMR/IR/MBR); ensures each escalation has a clear decision statement, options, recommendation, and required attendees.
• Accountable for action closure governance: assigns/records owners and deadlines, drives follow-up, and tracks closure; escalates blockers to the right level with a clear ask.
• Ensures seamless linkage from iS&OP to iS&OE: confirms decisions and actions taken in the iS&OP horizon are translated into executable plans and implemented efficiently in the iS&OE horizon.
• Communicates the approved plan (decisions, actions, assumptions, and key constraints) to downstream processes and functions (e.g., Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance) to ensure consistent execution.
• Acts as the integrator between iS&OP and iS&OE, IBP and AOP, IBP and PSP/ESP, and IBP and PxF; identifies cross-process gaps and triggers the right escalations to protect plan coherence.
• Monitors IBP effectiveness KPIs (cadence adherence, forum readiness/pack quality, decision cycle time, action closure) and uses insights to trigger discussions and escalations in reviews.
• Captures and applies learnings from each cycle; documents process improvements and implements changes to raise performance quarter-on-quarter.
• Coaches forum participants on required process, content, and behaviours as the process keeper; reinforces decision discipline and “no grey zones” on what is decided vs escalated.
• Leads the MU forums improvement plan and tracks adoption; drives structured continuous improvement across people/process/systems in line with the global template.
• Partners with the IBP Lead to define and implement people, system, and process changes (including quantified benefits cases) and engages Global IBP CoE where structural changes are required.
• Contributes to Global IBP CoE activities (e.g., maturity assessments, structural CI/transformation initiatives) by providing MU diagnostics, progress tracking, and implementation support.

Holder of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably with studies in Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance. Having a Master’s degree is a plus.
• 5-7 years of experience in either supply chain, demand planning, finance or sales. Having combined functional experience is a plus.
• 5+ years in the FMCG industry (preferably in the location where the role is based)
• Confident presenter and good facilitator
• Collaborative and a team player
• Strong in both strategic and analytical thinking
• Strong in organizational skills and attention to detail
• Good at project management and process improvement
• Good business acumen with results orientation
• Fluent in the local business language and in English