Strategy Director Sustainability

Overview

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 $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, 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.

pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) is the future of our organization - a strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. It is our roadmap for becoming the global leader in convenient foods and beverages and a leading actor in the transformation of the global food system.

Under our pep+ sustainability strategy, we're driven by three ambitious pillars:

• Positive Agriculture+ where we're working to source our crops and ingredients in ways that restore the earth and strengthen farming communities. Including spreading regenerative agriculture practices across seven million acres - an area approximately the size of our agricultural footprint.
• Positive Value Chain+ that will transform how we make products in a way that build a circular, inclusive economy while making a positive impact on the planet and people. Goals include achieving net-zero emissions across our value chain by 2040, net water positive by 2030, and a sustainable packaging agenda, targets, and vision to create a world where packaging never becomes waste.
• Positive Choices+ that is inspiring people, through brands to make choices that create more smiles for them and the planet every day. Including goals to accelerate our reduction of added sugars and sodium using science-based targets across our portfolio and offering more products with healthier oils by 2025.

The Sustainability Strategy team sits within the Global Sustainability Office and is fully integrated into all pep+ pillars and is focused on these main objectives:

• Oversee and execute strategic initiatives that cut across the enterprise, both for Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors
• Solve high-impact problems and develop actionable solutions for the most challenging issues facing the company, with a focus on corporate/global/cross-sector work specific to pep+
• Identify future growth opportunities for the organization with sustainability at the center of our decisions

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership to business partners and other operating leaders on a broad range of business-critical topics related to pep+
• Identify and deconstruct business issues and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses
• Lead the execution of strategic workstreams end-to-end in close collaboration with cross-functional partners
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from Executives and cross-functional business partners, own "Executive-ready" project deliverables
• Develop effective working relationships to gain matrix resources to support group's initiatives
• Demonstrate strong leadership and significant influence management skills with the ability to gain credibility with Sr Leadership while challenging the status quo
• Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, sustainability and macroeconomic/geopolitical trends
• Contribute to capacity building for the entire Global Sustainability function (e.g., Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.)

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $125,900 - $249,900.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 25% of annual salary paid out annually.
• and an additional target payout of 10% of annual salary is paid out over 3 years following the end of the performance period.
• Long term incentive equity may be awarded based on eligibility and performance.
• 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

• 9+ years of strategy experience in a variety of positions (top-tier Consulting firm or Corporate Strategy experience strongly preferred)
• BA required (MBA or other advanced degree strongly preferred)
• Highly analytical, motivated, decisive thought leader with excellent managerial skills
• Strategic mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks
• Excellent written and oral communication/presentation skills to present facts and provide recommendations
• High Emotional Intelligence and verbal and written communication skills that educate and influence senior leaders; ability to "manage up"
• Experience partnering with multiple business functions
• Strong interest in/understanding of sustainability industry trends, challenges, opportunities
• Love of Consumer Packaged Goods and our brands
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences.

Client-provided location(s): Purchase, NY

Job ID: PepsiCo-401318-en-us

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-29T20:07:33