PMF IBP PMO Lead

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The Opportunity

The main purpose of this role is to provide best-in-class project management delivery to initiatives serviced from the Project Management Office Center of Excellence. This role will be responsible for leading the governance, performance management, schedule management, scope management, and cost management of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) program as it pertains to PMF, ensuring all deliverables are executed on time and on budget and benefits realization.

The IBP PMF Project Management Senior Manager will establish a standardized project management methodology, transformation processes, and ways of working to unlock speed of execution, increase team efficiency, and enable a one PepsiCo approach to project management delivery. The position will be a critical role in driving a competitive advantage for PepsiCo by capturing greater and faster value delivery for projects. This role will be a strategic thought partner to the executive sponsor, consistently influence senior leader stakeholders, and will partner with external stakeholders as needed. It will provide a fast-paced environment with a culture of experimenting, learning, and continuously improving.

This role will develop a comprehensive understanding of the IBP project to take our S&T transformation to the next level, enabling world-class decision making, synchronized across the enterprise through ONE aligned plan, automated – with human intervention when needed, and fueled by next-gen talent, analytics and technologies.

The role will also manage market resourcing and resource coordination throughout all project stages to ensure effective project delivery and spending.

Your Impact

As Global Project Management Sr Manager – IBP PMF Market Deployment your scope would consist:

• Partner with Transformation Program Leadership Team and Transformation Program Lead to shape Transformation Program Agenda (roadmap, sequencing, AOP plans, budgets and costs)
• Establish governance structure, facilitate governance councils, coordinate governance content generation, and perform stage management against an aligned set of exit criteria
• Lead performance management including schedule/scope/cost progress tracking, status reporting, risk/issue/dependency management, post audits, and capturing lessons learned
• Lead, centralize, and manage project scorecard and overall progress/health tracking for project sponsors and key stakeholders
• Monitor progress of project’s change management, value realization, technical deliverables and facilitate issue/risk mitigation and action plans.
• Coordinate business go-live and deployment
• Manage resource and risk management, central repository of project materials, and gap assessment documentation
• Lead schedule management including roadmap development, project schedule development, and roadmap/schedule change request management
• Build, maintain, and manage the project roadmap and end-to-end project deliverables across the project lifecycle.
• Lead scope management including scope definition, deliverable definition, and scope change request management
• Lead cost management including budget alignment and budget change request management
• Identify and coordinate Project integration/interdependency opportunities and risks, along with risk mitigation plans.
• Ensure COE project management standards are consistently executed including project management methodology, playbook, tools, and roles & responsibilities.
• Facilitate collaborative knowledge transfers between BU and Sector project teams, capturing and disseminating lessons learned

Who Are We Looking For?

Experience

• 10+ years of professional work experience, at least 5 years in Project Management, outstanding project management skills
• Project Management certifications on PMP, Lean Six Sigma, and Agile preferred
• Experience in global transformation initiatives with track record of executing and delivering in uncertain and ambiguous context
• Highly motivated and decisive thought leader with excellent managerial skills
• Self-starter capable of managing own agenda within a complex, fast-paced environment
• Ability to understand and provide a top-line strategic view and/or detailed and accurate analysis to support recommendations for Leadership decisions
• Experience managing teams and partnering with multiple business functions
• Strong leadership skills with ability to foster teamwork, build strong partnership, and embrace change
• High Emotional Intelligence with ability to manage executive stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders across organizational geographies and functions
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences
• High business acumen with executive maturity and communication

Skills

• Strong leadership skills, ambition, and drive for results
• High level of executive maturity: Interacting with, influencing & aligning peers and senior leaders.
• Leadership through influencing senior colleagues from all functions and being able to influence a broad base of cross-functional stakeholders & peers.
• The ability to understand and provide a top-line strategic view or, where needed to back up recommendations for Leadership Team decisions, a very detailed and accurate analysis is a critical skill.
• Strong PMO background. Ability to develop / execute project plans and to manage project resources, risks and budget. Experience of delivering quality projects on time, on budget and in scope while following established methodologies, establishing and managing internal & external partnerships.
• Excellent influencing skills, confident when dealing with different Leadership Team members with more seniority and experience, and credible in dealings with them. Be sensitive to cultural differences, and able to deal with these.
• Previous team management experience – lead a cross-cultural team with a variety of experiences and capabilities, developing a clear talent strategy ensuring the team are staffed to deliver the complex agenda with future pipeline identified. Strong team player.
• Comfortable with process discipline and process adherence, but also able to identify and take opportunities to further develop and strengthen the process without compromising the end state.
• Confronts and works through tough issues, taking ownership and accountability for resolution, whilst demonstrating perseverance and a sense of urgency. Able to work within ambiguous, fluid cross-functional environment managing various amounts of change and being able to influence a broad base of cross-functional stakeholders & peers. Self-starter capable of managing own agenda.

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us:

• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate analytical findings into actionable solutions and processes
• Organized personality
• Team player
• Ability to manage stress and meet deadlines while maintaining high levels of accuracy
• Advocates for and embraces the use of new tools and techniques
• Problem Solving
• Seeks opportunities to strengthen digital culture through collaborating and sharing knowledge
• Track record of improving processes, leading projects and influencing decision-makers
• Has an informed opinion on digital trends, including fluency with specific digital technologies

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