PEPSICO

Process Automation Director

Posted on: 1 Feb 2021

Aiea, HI

Job Description

Job Description

The primary location in Purchase, NY, Plano, TX, Chicago, IL, and NYC. However, open to considering candidates in other locations.

PepsiCo operates in an environment undergoing immense and rapid change. Big-data and digital technologies are driving business transformation that is unlocking new capabilities and business innovations in areas like eCommerce, mobile experiences and IoT. The key to winning in these areas is being able to leverage enterprise data foundations built on PepsiCos global business scale to enable business insights, advanced analytics and new product development. PepsiCos Data Management and Operations team is tasked with the responsibility of developing quality data collection processes, maintaining the integrity of our data foundations and enabling business leaders and data scientists across the company to have rapid access to the data they need for decision-making and innovation.
What PepsiCo Data Management and Operations does:

* Maintain a predictable, transparent, global operating rhythm that ensures always-on access to high-quality data for stakeholders across the company
* Responsible for day-to-day data collection, transportation, maintenance/curation and access to the PepsiCo corporate data asset
* Work cross-functionally across the enterprise to centralize data and standardize it for use by business, data science or other stakeholders
* Increase awareness about available data and democratize access to it across the company

As the lead of the process automation team, you will be responsible for overseeing a development and product team of low-code/no-code automation experts who will utilize tools like Microsoft Power Apps and Power Platform to automate Microsoft Excel or other informal processes within business teams. Automation of local processes will be another avenue for accelerating the growth of PepsiCos enterprise data asset and enhancing the value of the enterprise Data Platform. You and your team will work closely with business stakeholders to identify areas where automation can add business value and take data out of informal processes and institutionalize and structure them for efficiency.

Qualifications/Requirements

Qualifications:

* 10+ years of experience developing automation applications for non-enterprise / smaller business processes using Microsoft tools: Visual Basic, Sharepoint, etc
* 5+ years of team management / people management

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:

* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with senior level management
* Proven track record of overseeing a portfolio of multiple projects
* Strong change manager. Comfortable with change, especially that which arises through company growth. Able to lead a team effectively through times of change.
* Strong management discipline and attention to detail
* High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously
* Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment
* Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs
* Proactively drives impact and engagement while bringing others along
* Ability to lead others without direct authority

Relocation Eligible: Eligible for Standard Relocation
Job Type: Regular

PEPSICO

Purchase, NY

PepsiCo, Inc. operates as a food and beverage company worldwide. The company’s Frito-Lay North America segment offers branded dips; Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks; and Doritos tortilla, Fritos corn, Lay’s potato, Ruffles potato, and Tostitos tortilla chips. Its Quaker Foods North America segment provides cereals, rice, pasta, mixes and syrups, granola bars, grits, oat squares, oatmeal, rice cakes, simply granola, and side dishes under the Aunt Jemima, Cap’n crunch, Life, Quaker Chewy, Quaker, and Rice-A-Roni brands.

The company’s North America Beverages segment offers beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the Aquafina, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Propel, Sierra Mist, and Tropicana brands; and ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and juices. Its Latin America segment provides snack foods under the Cheetos, Doritos, Emperador, Lay’s, Marias Gamesa, Rosquinhas Mabel, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas, and Tostitos brands; Quaker-branded cereals and snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Black, and Toddy.

The company’s Europe Sub-Saharan Africa segment offers snack food under the Cheetos, Chipita, Doritos, Lay’s, Ruffles, and Walkers; Quaker-branded cereals and snacks; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Diet Pepsi, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Max, and Tropicana; ready-to-drink tea products; and dairy products under the Agusha, Chudo, and Domik v Derevne brands. Its Asia, Middle East and North Africa segment provides snack foods under the Cheetos, Chipsy, Doritos, Kurkure, and Lay’s brands; cereals and snacks under the Quaker brand; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Aquafina, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sting, and Tropicana brands; and ready-to-drink tea products. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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