at PepsiCo Corp in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
Overview
*Candidate can sit in any of the following locations: Purchase, NY; Chicago, IL; Plano, TX ; Mexico City, Mexico*
This individual in this role is responsible for application of the global PepsiCo trends framework. This includes managing, leveraging and developing customized presentations on trends for market level or global projects, collaborating with global or local partners to ensure needs are met, and leading or co-leading market presentations. In addition, this role will assist in making the trends framework application human-centric and tell compelling stories, which could entail special reports and videos.
Responsibilities
* Develop, manage, and leverage customized presentations for market-specific or global projects, leveraging tools like Global Monitor, market lenses, and a signals platform.
* Collaborate with market, sector or global Insights counterparts to understand customization needs.
* Present projects to various global PepsiCo teams, with confident delivery and ability to answer related questions.
* Monitor content from agencies, such as categtory drivers, and the Trensition signals platform to bring relevant emergent trends into presentations by market.
* Co-lead larger workshops, such as trends prioritization workshops, with the Sr. Manager of Trends for marketing, commercial functions, and insights in various sectors.
* Coordinate and help develop human-centric storytelling content for trend reporting, such as videos or special reports.
Compensation and Benefits:
* The expected compensation range for this position is between $68,000 -$ 113,850 based on a full-time schedule
* Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary
* Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 8% of annual salary paid out annually
* Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement
* In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.
Qualifications
Key Skills/Experience Required
Education/Certifications:
* Minimum Qualification: Undergraduate Degree
* MBA preferred but not required.
Work Experience:
* 4+ years of experience at a CPG company or insight agency.
* Experience making an impact in a market research/insights/analytics, marketing, strategy, competitive intelligence or other similar function such as design with demonstrated ability to manage projects in a complex environment preferred but not required.
Skills/Capabilities:
* Able to identify, understand, and leverage multiple sources of insights to tell compelling stories that clearly articulate business implications and/or impact.
* Adept at leveraging primary qualitative and quantitative research, and syndicated data to make business recommendations.
* Solid verbal communication skills both 1:1 and with large audiences.
* A collaborator who is willing to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and collaborate to get the job done.
* Passion for insights and human empathy - a drive to represent the voice of others.
* Ability to effectively collaborate, communicate and influence in a matrix environment.
* Creative thinking and problem solving skills
* Excellent written and presentation development skills.
* Demonstrated ability to develop and cultivate relationships
* Covid-19 vaccination may be a condition of employment dependent on role and location. For specific information, please discuss role requirements with the recruiter.
Differentiating Competencies Required
* Strong Project Management: Able to manage tasks and time to deliver quality output on time. Work with key vendor/agency partners to lead research or develop content that addresses the business needs.
* Strong Collaboration: Will be abel to develop strong working relationships with cross-functional and global business teams, including but not limited to Insights, Marketing, R&D, Finance, as well as agency partners to ensure the consumer “voice” is represented accurately in deliverables.
* Confident Communication: Must be persuasive in conveying trends information in written and verbal forms, and able to champion the Voice of the Consumer. Comfortable interacting with peers and business leaders.
* Comfort with Ambiguity:As a capability leader, identifying the best way to build and evolve trends capability will require experimentation, piloting, and developing new ways of doing things without precident. This individual will embrace this as an opportunity to continuously improve their work over time.
* Business Understanding: Adept at identifying business and consumer issues to solve and connecting the trends insights that most effectively address the issues to drive meaningful implilcations for the business.
* Insights Technical Competency: This individual will have sufficient experience with qualitative, quantitative and syndicated research to know what strong, high quality research looks like, and will be able to screen out low quality sources, or re-direct vendors as necessary to ensure solid data and insight input to Change Compass.
EEO Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.
