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At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day.

At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

The Opportunity

The Digital Deployment Supply Chain Director will spearhead the local team, focusing on the seamless delivery of integrated Supply Chain solutions for PepsiCo Mexico Foods.

To be the liaison between Supply Chain and Strategy & Technology functions, creating strong partnering as result of act as trusted tech & transformation advisors to define strategies and roadmaps to frame solutions to solve complex business challenges that enable new capabilities to boost our business digital transformation.

Your Impact

As Business Engagement Director Supply Chain (IT Lead Supply Chain) your scope would consist of:

• Coach business leaders and enable them to articulate their function’s in terms of technology needs and requirements that will advance business performance.
• Partner with enterprise architecture and global innovation team to develop and maintain multi-year business capability roadmaps.
• Partner with business transformation teams (change management) to ensure effective business transformation for all initiatives.
• Partner with the project/program/portfolio management organization (PMO) to ensure a healthy and well-managed initiative portfolio.
• Partner with business leaders to plan new joint initiatives, evaluate proposals, and determine how they fit into business capability roadmaps and priorities.
• Think strategically by identifying business function opportunities and the best-suited position for the function’s adoption within the business partner organization. Measure adoption and work with business leaders to develop future roadmap and opportunities.
• Identify and integrate business partners’ long-range plans into business capability roadmaps and priorities, as appropriate. Brief stakeholders on business partner plans.
• Focus on business value rather than solutions to develop ideas, including digital awareness, risk assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
• Build and manage the relationship team to ensure convergence and strategic partnering with the business partner team, including working closely with CxO leadership as executive sponsors for each business partner.
• Advocate for awareness and focus on business partner strategic plans.
• Correlate business value and priorities to planning activities and goal-setting.
• Ensure that project/program managers of business partner projects are knowledgeable about the business partner and their objectives; engage as a project/program stakeholder, including evaluating project efforts and progress against joint strategic plans and objectives.
• Be creative and innovative with regards to your knowledge and awareness of industry trends and digital advances as they relate to new opportunities and business needs.
• Evaluate joint initiatives as they relate to corporate strategy to ensure convergence and opportunities for measurable success.
• At a business unit-level, own the Digital deployment functional operating and project/program budget, and perform accurate budgeting and forecasting across operations and projects or programs.
• Identify business dilemmas that can be solved using new technologies to create competitive advantages for the organization.
• Implement proof of concepts, and technological evaluation pilots across LatAm to create the blueprint for our IT digital transformation.
• Explore, evaluate and test new technologies currently not supported by IT that will help us to develop new business capabilities.
• Create a link between PepsiCo and external innovation community (Startups, VCs, Accelerators, Universities, communities) to discover new trends that will drive top-line growth and productivity opportunities for our business.

Who Are We Looking For?

• Has 7+ years experience with broad skills and experience with multiple software products, infrastructure, technologies and services and is able to shape and deliver innovative technology solutions.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English (Portuguese preferred)
• Experience in successfully delivering information technology solutions for large-scale global applications across multiple software, infrastructure and service platforms. Lead technical design during all phases of development and deployment.
• Is creative and energetic with a strong interest in technology and its impact on business with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Technology engineering, testing and operations experience; prior “hands-on” experience understanding of software development methods, tools and environments.
• Experience and knowledge of one or more emerging tech domains, that means expertise in designing, building and deploying innovative solutions. In-depth technical knowledge in areas of mobile, web, IoT and emerging technologies. Including Big Data, Cloud and Edge computing, smart devices, robotic process automation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Experience capturing and writing emerging tech concepts and industry, business and client impact created for senior executives, business and technology colleagues, external audiences and client representatives.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
• Must be a strategic thinker with strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
• Both a big picture thinker and a hands-on implementer, dynamic leader focus on User experience and the capacity to transmit that strategic vision in all areas of S&T deployment.
• Capable to build strong relationships internally and with industry experts across industries.
• A disciplined thinker and analytical, numerate, problem solver who has strategic judgment and the capacity to think complex issues through and develop effective solutions in a timely fashion and the enthusiasm and credibility to create and sustain instructional momentum in the appropriate use of technology in learning and teaching.

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us:

• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.
• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.
• Development programs according to Leadership skills.
• Specialized training according to the role.
• Learning experiences with internal and external providers.
• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.
• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.
• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.
• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.