Saudi S&T Transformation Sr. Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role

PepsiCo is seeking a Saudi S&T Transformation Sr. Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is responsible for supporting the delivery of a multi-year transformation agenda aimed at achieving sustainable growth and building organizational capability. The transformation function includes key areas such as the Next Chapter Operating Model, Cost Transformation, and the Transformation Management Office (TMO), all aligned with the OU/market vision and strategic KPIs.

This position will lead several large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiatives, requiring collaboration with senior stakeholders and a comprehensive understanding of the business landscape. The role demands a proactive approach to drive significant change and deliver measurable business results within the Saudi market.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide program leadership for the Next Chapter Operating Model within the OU/market, collaborating with the OU Next Chapter PMO, CMO, and Region team to implement organizational changes, processes, and ways of working according to the OU roadmap.
• Drive program-level visibility and progress for the Next Chapter initiative, ensuring connectivity between key workstreams.
• Provide program leadership for the OU/market GCC (Global Capability Centers) agenda, ensuring a smooth transition by leveraging global scale and consolidating similar work in HUBs.
• Collaborate with multiple partners within the OU/market (Function Leads, People Lead, Comms Lead) and the Region GCC team to ensure the transition progresses as planned.
• Drive program-level visibility and progress for GCC initiatives, embedding change management and communications, and managing interdependencies and risks.
• Provide program management for the OU/market Cost Transformation agenda, focusing on building a medium and long-term productivity pipeline for the next 2-5 years.
• Drive program-level visibility and progress for cost transformation, including pipeline visibility, operationalizing cross-functional workstreams, and working with stakeholders to size opportunities, mobilize teams, and build roadmaps and scorecards.
• Lead the Saudi DTV (Direct-to-Venture) initiative, including sprint facilitation, prioritization, planning, SWAT team identification and onboarding, value realization, and idea generation based on benchmarking.
• Embed change management and communications within cost transformation efforts.
• Support cost transformation governance processes, such as the Productivity Council, agenda setting, and action tracking.
• Manage interdependencies of workstreams and key risks within cost transformation, escalating as required.
• Own the delivery of the multi-year OU/market Transformation roadmap, including the digital agenda, in conjunction with key OU stakeholders and Region Transformation and Deployment teams.
• Define overall project management plans leveraging standard frameworks for each program, delivering detailed roadmaps and key milestones.
• Identify support mechanisms for each initiative, defining cross-functional integration points and potential challenges.
• Provide leadership and governance for transformation projects, working closely with core project teams, functions, and OUs.
• Leverage project management methodologies, guidance, and communication frameworks to ensure effective project execution.
• Provide scorecards and performance metrics for each project, manage risks, course-correct as needed, and ensure the delivery of defined benefits.
• Embed change management and communications across all transformation initiatives.
• Lead the process of prioritizing investment requests, tracking resources, enabling active risk management, and ensuring value realization for transformation initiatives.
• Define a multi-year investment plan and work with project stakeholders to outline scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget, and timing.
• Build tools and capabilities to support the OU/market Transformation agenda, partnering with the Sector TMO and CMO to establish standard tools, project management practices, and working methods.
• Collaborate with the Global Team to leverage global tools and capabilities and gain insights from other sectors on adoption and roll-out practices.
• Provide leadership and project management for several large-scale OU/market Transformation projects.
• Lead the change management community, plan training for new change leads and impacted managers, and drive effective organizational implementation.
• Work with the EMEA Change Lead to integrate a clear change management plan.
• Facilitate the sharing of learnings across projects and teams.
• Estimate and manage 2-3 significant transformation projects per year, which are often multi-year initiatives.

Qualifications and Requirements

• University degree or MBA.
• A minimum of 10 years of business experience in leadership roles at Market/OU/Region/Global level within the FMCG sector.
• Proven experience in transformation, change management, and/or project management is highly preferred.
• Deep understanding of the OU/market, its processes, priorities, and goals.

Required Skills

• Strategic Thinking: Excellent strategic mindset, forward-thinking ability, capacity for holistic end-to-end thinking, ability to frame the right questions, and develop frameworks and solutions for complex problems.
• Analytical & Problem Solving: Highly analytical, motivated, decisive thought leader with strong problem-solving capabilities and the ability to use diverse information sources to support recommendations and drive business results.
• Execution & Leadership: Strong leadership skills and a proven track record of partnering with and influencing at all organizational levels to develop and implement large-scale transformation or strategic initiatives. Outstanding project management skills with the ability to bring clarity and discipline to the transformation agenda.
• Communication & Simplification: Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex information.
• Collaboration & Relationships: A collaborative team player who thrives in agile and ambiguous environments, demonstrating solid people skills and the ability to work effectively across functions and business units to align behind goals and delivery.
• Agility & Flexibility: Flexibility and willingness to take on diverse and challenging tasks, with a passion for supporting and managing change. Ability to operate through ambiguity and adapt to changing priorities.
• Courage & Conviction: Demonstrates the courage and conviction required to lead large-scale change initiatives and embrace new ways of working.
• General Management: Strong general management skills with a bias for action and a can-do approach to work.
• Innovation: Ability for "out-of-the-box" thinking.
• Transformation: Expertise in driving transformation initiatives.

Work Location and Type

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.