Are you interested in a career in Technology Innovation in PepsiCo?  Then now is the time to explore the opportunities of PepsiCo: join us as the next Technology Innovation Sr Manager.  Working with inspiring and experienced colleagues, you'll find that the atmosphere in our offices in Barcelona and Vitoria are informal and engaging. With an active, get-things-done culture, this is a place where your dynamism and agility will make a difference. 

Your mission:

In this role you will lead the Procurement Startup Transformation program, driving digital procurement innovation and achieving $400 million in savings over three years. You will be involved managing vendor relationships, piloting new technologies, and ensuring successful implementation and scaling of solutions across PepsiCo. 

Your day to day with us:

• Manage process selecting procurement vendors for POC/pilot
  • Select and scout for priority focus areas
    • Ensure strategic terrains, ripe for startup tech innovation, are identified and clear briefs developed
  • Meet procurement vendors
    • Ongoing mapping and scouting of the procurement tech landscape
    • Coordinate eco-systems immersions (virtual/in-person) to scout for relevant vendors – right people attend & right timing with effective enagement tools
    • Prioritize and identify potential solutions by staying abreast of the latest market trends and technological advancements.
  • Select vendors
    • Consolidate immersion output (selected vendors, initial use cases etc) for sign off from program executive sponsors
    • Capture all the requirements and build process flows to help select best in class vendors
    • Maintain CRM of all startup discussions & status to ensure efficiency for program and ongoing startup engagement
• Co-lead, with digital procurement owners, to ensure well-run POCs/pilots
  • Prepare for kick off
    • Work with advisory to assign business partner to ‘own pilot’
    • Support initial discussions introducing business partner and vendors
    • Coordinate with Legal all documentation (e.g., NDAs, MOUs) to ensure adherent to PEP standards and protected from IP
  • Project kick off
    • Facilitate kick-off sessions by defining use case and objectives for the pilot and setting ways-of-working for rapid decision: e.g., micro-team (DICE framework), milestones, KPIs and timeline)
    • Act as a bridge between vendors and PEP and remove roadblocks or stepbacks
    • Support vendors & business partners to build effective communications that inspire PEP engagement with the startup
    • Consolidate communications for ongoing advisory updates
  • Use case discovery (when needed, for relevant technologies that are cross functional)
• Work closely with Digital Procurement leaders to drive decisions
  • Provide external lens to help shape and refine focus areas
  • Develop process flows to identify opportunuties for innovation
  • Lead process for post pilot evaluation
  • Lead process for scale-up recommendation
• Refine design of scale up process and support implementation of scale up
• Lead planning & execution of key program events – immersion sessions, kick-offs, interim & final events with senior leaders and vendors
• Create ongoing and inspiring communications on progress to gain executive support & continue infusing innovation culture in procurement
• Establish incubation framework for horizon 2 & 3 technologies for procurement to focus on developing PEP specific use cases with strategic vendors
  • Provide guidance to vendor partners on PEP use cases
  • Co-develop with vendors to evaluate and create stage gate process to pilot in real world scenario
  • Secure funding to initiate strategic evaluations and development work

What will you need to succeed?

• 12 + years work experience in a business environment, preferably procurement or transformationBachelors degree, MBA preferred (Degree in Business Management, Finance and/or Purchasing and/or Accounting or relevant Procurement Operations experience)
• Strong Procurement expertise and background – especially in digitalization
• Excellent understanding of how procurement tools can support business processes
• Experience in project management
• Strong analytical and financial capabilities
• Strong interpersonal and team leadership skills
• Ability to think strategically and translate to action to ‘get things done’
• Strong sense of ownership and commitment
• Know-how of how to “wire” into PEP - experience at PEP or working in a multinational company with matrix processes and activities
• Experience in leading complex and multi-functional project teams
• Effective communication (written and oral) to senior management
• Flexibility and ability to deal with complexity under time pressure 

What makes us different?  

• Hybrid work model: combination of remote and collaborative office experience to enable innovation
• Entrepreneurial environment in leading international company
• Professional growth possibilities & learning opportunities
• Variety of benefits to support your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing
• Volunteering opportunities to help external communities 

About PepsiCo   We believe that culture should be at the cornerstone of everything we do at PepsiCo. We are agile, innovative and not afraid of failure. We want our team to come to work every day excited to explore new ways to bring enjoyment, refreshment and fun to the world. PepsiCo Positive (pep+) is the future of our organization – a strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. So, if you’re ready to be a part of a playground for those who think big, we’d love to chat.  

*We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.

#LI-Hybrid #Locations: Barcelona, Spain; Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain