Director, Saudi Strategy Lead

Overview

The Global Strategy function plays a critical role in charting PepsiCo’s long-term growth and portfolio development, driving both the future of the company and shaping the industry landscape. We are tasked with ensuring the company invests in the assets and capabilities needed to stay ahead of the competition and maintain market leadership. This entails developing actionable solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing the company.

To bring fresh and disruptive thinking to the ever-changing macro environment, we have Strategists aligned to each of our Sectors, Global Businesses, and to PepsiCo Corporate. Joining PepsiCo’s Global Strategy function will enable you to experience the breadth and depth of PepsiCo’s global portfolio and build a deep understanding of both the business and the industry. Whether you decide to remain in Strategy or pursue a leadership position in another function, the experience provides incredible possibilities for a dynamic career at PepsiCo.

Responsibilities

The Saudi MU Strategy position will be fully anchored in MENAPAK business and will also gain exposure to the work done across the groups as we are highly coordinated.

The work is always high-priority, high-value, high-visibility, and high-impact, with a particular focus on growth and capability building. We have four main areas of responsibility:

• Oversee and execute strategic initiatives that cut across Saudi, both for Senior Saudi Leadership and the Global S&T Teams
• Solve high-impact problems and develop actionable solutions for the most challenging issues facing the MU, with a focus on all domains within the MU
• Identify future growth opportunities for the MU, with particular attention to the capabilities needed to operationalize and capture value from these areas
• Act as thought partners to the organization in order to translate strategic recommendations into execution, with a particular focus on where and how recommendations drive value
• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of Saudi MU most challenging, business critical, topics
• Translate business problems into structured projects that you will lead in end-to-end delivery against key objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials
• Lead analytical workstreams - identify and deconstruct business issues, and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses and solve critical business issues with minimal oversight from functional leaders
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo
• Lead & manage teams to deliver on-time and complete deliverables; ensuring recommendations are grounded in fact and actionable
• Invest in the professional development of direct reports including coaching, performance reviews, and long-term career guidance
• Build executive-ready project deliverables
• Assist in the planning and execution of key enterprise projects (e.g., Enterprise Strategic Planning, PepsiCo Growth Model, etc.) as needed
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from Saudi business, Strategy Leadership, and cross-functional business partners
• Provide thought partnership to Global Strategy leadership team and business partners on a broad range of business-critical topics
• Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic / geopolitical trends
• Contribute to capability building for the entire Global Strategy function (e.g. Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree required (MBA strongly preferred)

• 8+ years of strategy experience either internally or with a Top-Tier consulting firm
• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
• Excellent technical skills to coach teams to analyze large quantities of data in an error-free manner
• Outstanding project and people management skills
• Experience managing large teams and partnering with multiple business functions
• High Emotional Intelligence and verbal and written communication skills that educate and influence senior leaders; ability to “manage up”
• Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences; foreign language skills highly desired