Job Description

Overview:
About PepsiCo
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 more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. 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.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.
In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch, or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go. We refresh, restore, and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and Bokomo range of cereals. PepsiCo SA employs more than 13, 000 people across our three business divisions: Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages. For more information, visit Responsibilities:
What we're looking for:
The newly formed PepsiCo Global Agriculture Office (GAO) is charged with building a highly productive vertically integrated potato supply chain. The GAO is tasked with accelerating value realization across the function (currently approx. $50MM per annum) to deliver an additional $ 100 MM by 2027 and $ 200 MM by 2029 across mature as well as high growth/high risk emerging markets.
Accountabilities * Manage and administrate the Global Supply Working Group (GS WG) across the sectors to ensure that the GAO maintain global supply visibility and insights (macro/global market dynamics etc.), to support the business with medium to long term/strategic supply planning for both Chipstock and Potato Seed across sectors, including:

• Delivering an accurate global crop year analysis and supply overview to support sector and BU teams to resolve supply challenges and ensure that the teams can deliver high service levels to globally, including support with Potato volume surplus, shortfall and Ad Hoc constraint overview management; Investigation of import and export opportunities; and the communication with stakeholders to align best cost, quality, service solutions.
• Reviewing in cooperation with the GS WG the supply and demand balances, evaluate risks (e.g. demand, weather, crop availability, quality loss, etc.) and cause of change on a regular basis (monthly/weekly/as required) including hot spots and bright spots in the supply chain.
• Leading stakeholder alignment for GS WG global supply decisions and solutions that deliver value to the business and suppliers, through potential cost-savings and productivity opportunities associated with best practice.
• Manage and administrate the Global Market Development and Access Working Group across the sectors to:
• Develop and maintain an accurate market access overview including the current Potato tariff and non-tariff market barriers within PepsiCo markets, including:
• Staying up to date with recent tariff and policy changes and any potential impacts on the business; as well as
• High-priority macro policy/political activities and events that could impact our business.
• In accordance with the above develop an action plan with stakeholders such as PepsiCo Public and Government Affairs and BU's to gain or maintain market access in priority markets.
• Manage special projects intended to:
• Provide market access solutions for commercial and seed volumes; and
• Improve understanding of global market supply dynamics and commercial modeling.
• Collaborate with sectors and BU agriculture teams to drive scalable and consistent global standards, policies, best practices, and technologies, as identified, and prioritized through the working groups.
• Work in cross functional teams to support delivery of supply and market access related productivity projects, information-based analysis, develop new tools to drive value. Use data and analytics tools to drive decision making and improvement.
• Collaborate with PEP partners such as PPGA, R&D and Sector and BU teams to ensure that all registration specific actions are monitored and completed as required such as country variety registrations etc.

Qualifications:
What will qualify you for the role:

• Candidates for this role should have a procurement or ag-sciences degree, master's or higher preferred, and more than 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven working experience across relevant industry.
• Strong with data analytics and digital solutions.
• Experience in planning and scheduling experience across multiple business units preferred.
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor message depending on audience.
• Strong digital and information management skills - ability to use existing software platforms and data tools to extract information and intelligence that support the GA objectives.
• Good collaborator with proven communication skills and business orientation.

"PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act"

Skills Required