Commercialisation Director

Auto req ID: 206710BRJob DescriptionThe overarching role of Commercialisation is to enable our organisation to remain competitive and achieve sustained growth via the flawless execution of ‘Fewer, Bigger, Better, Faster’ innovation. Our key accountabilities of the function include:- Managing the innovation hopper and pipeline; understanding the value, gaps, risks, resources and trade-offs required to deliver our targets and ensure we make the right innovation portfolio choices- Leading the Stage-Gate process and all innovation governance forums- Providing world-class Commercial project management expertise, delivering solutions that enable rapid speed-to-market and flawless execution- Driving innovation synergies and minimising duplication and low value-add activities- Proactively engaging with the Global Groups to enable flawless commercialisation of initiatives in Europe- Developing and embedding world-class people, processes, systems and scorecard capability into the categories and BUs- Driving continuous improvement across all innovation governance and Commercialisation KPIsThe Commercialisation function will encourage effective ways of working via close cross-functional collaboration, the effective networking of Category and BU Commercialisation teams and strong functional and operational reporting lines.Purpose of the role:- This role has an operational reporting line into the GM SVP EE Snacks, with a functional reporting line into the ESSA Commercialisation Senior Director. On a day to day basis, the role needs to work closely with the EE Snacks Category Lead Team members, including Marketing, Insights, Supply Chain, Finance and R&D leads, to effectively manage the EE Snacks Innovation & Brand Activation agenda across the Region- The role is accountable for the ongoing leadership & governance of the EE Snacks Category Innovation hopper & pipeline, Commercialisation processes and Innovation/Activation Governance forums.- The EE Snacks Commercialisation team provide project management leadership for Business Breakthrough and Category Reframe projects in EE markets as well as some multi-market Refresh, PWP, Renovation, Commercial Change and TPO / Value Engineering projects. Some of the more complex projects are likely to have both multi-market and/or global dependencies & synergies to leverage and manage.- The role also has responsibility for the CEGB BU Snacks and BUCCA BU Commercialisation teams with the leads of these teams reporting into the role.- The role will engage with the broader Sector Commercialisation team to enable functional priorities development, capability building and best practice sharing.Primary Accountabilities:- Portfolio management of the EE Snacks hopper & pipelines, highlighting risks, managing complexity & driving trade-offs. In particular, identifying pipeline value, the scale of projects, complexity and resources to execute.- The leadership of the EE Snacks Category Innovation Boards and other Category forums as required to enable critical Stage-Gate decision making and alignment between senior x-functional stakeholders.- Commercial project management of Category led Innovation, Commercial Change and TPO / Value Engineering projects for EE markets in the early/ development stages to Gate 3 approval and then ensuring a smooth handover to BU Commercialisation teams for flawless execution.- Responsibility for managing 7 direct reports, covering EE Snacks, CEGB Snacks and BUCCA BU teams.Qualifications/RequirementsProven results and critical experiences required in a significant number of the following areas:- Very strong, proven commercial project leadership skills- Deep knowledge of PepsiCo’s Make/Move/Sell capability- Knowledge of how to commercialise large scale innovation (incl Stage-Gate management)- Ability to deliver significant business change within a fast-paced X-functional, matrix environment- Strong commercial skills and/or supply chain experience- Very high level of business acumen must be commercially savvy and financially astute- Ideally has international experienceRelocation Eligible: Eligible for Limited RelocationJob Type: Pipeline