Digital Procurement Process Director

Overview

Transformation Director – Digital Procurement Process Lead

The Supply Chain & Operations vertically plays a critical role in accelerating PepsiCo’s sustainable growth by driving strategic choices, delivering breakthrough enterprise capabilities, optimizing service delivery excellence, and executing end-to-end transformations. Supply Chain & Operations in S&T is central to business transformation, enabling the organization to be more efficient, digital, innovative, and sustainable.

Responsibilities

As Transformation Director – Digital Procurement Process Lead , you will serve as the connection between strategy and execution. You will lead the design, storytelling, and delivery of our digital procurement transformation agenda—translating complex initiatives into clear executive narratives, aligning global workstreams, and ensuring our roadmap delivers meaningful impact across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Leadership & Integration
  • Serve as the central orchestrator across Digital Procurement workstreams, ensuring alignment, integration, and progress toward strategic outcomes.
  • Translate strategic objectives into clear, connected roadmaps that resonate with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Oversee program governance, milestone tracking, and risk management to ensure accountability and delivery at scale.
• Executive Content & Storytelling
  • Shape the narrative for executive updates, board-level reviews, and global leadership forums—distilling complex data and initiatives into clear, compelling stories.
  • Partner with senior leaders to prepare content that highlights business impact, fosters alignment, and builds momentum for transformation.
  • Ensure communications reinforce the vision for Digital Procurement while connecting progress to PepsiCo’s broader enterprise transformation.
• Process & Capability Transformation
  • Lead efforts to analyze, optimize, and standardize digital procurement processes across global operations.
  • Champion user-centered design and adoption of new tools and ways of working, embedding a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with capability teams and technology partners to identify and integrate innovative digital solutions.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
  • Act as a trusted advisor and connector across Global Procurement, Functions, Sectors, and Business Units.
  • Bring external insights on best practices and emerging trends to shape PepsiCo’s future-state procurement model.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior executives, ensuring alignment of priorities and sustained sponsorship for the transformation agenda.

Own:

• Creation of long-term digital roadmap
• Identify innovative technologies to meet the needs of Procurement
• Establish and track KPIs tied to user experience, compliance, and productivity.

Influence:

• Short-term digital roadmap
• Continuous improvement opportunities
• Technology adoption

Qualifications

Leadership Skills: Demonstrates strong leadership capabilities, inspiring and motivating cross-functional teams with proven experience in managing and developing talent.

Strategic Thinking: Possesses the ability to think strategically and formulate long-term procurement strategies aligned with business objectives. Exhibits advanced analytical skills for assessing market trends, risks, and opportunities.

Communication and Stakeholder Management: Excels in communication and people skills, effectively engaging and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels, including senior leadership.

Global Perspective: Understands global market dynamics, regulatory requirements, and cultural nuances, with substantial experience managing procurement initiatives across diverse regions and countries.

Adaptability: Thrives in complex, matrixed, and ambiguous environments, adapting seamlessly to change.

Clarity: Capable of simplifying complexity and communicating information in a clear and concise manner.

Results Orientation: Balances a sense of urgency with a commitment to delivering quality outcomes, demonstrating perseverance in achieving challenging or ambiguous goals and exhibiting strong self-management skills.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborates effectively across boundaries, fosters trusting relationships, and demonstrates active listening skills.

External Perspective and Business Acumen: Maintains a comprehensive understanding of markets, consumers, customers, the external environment, and industry factors (including FX, inflation, and P&L), leveraging this knowledge to inform decisions and actions.

Professional and Functional Expertise:

• Strong expertise in procurement domain
• Elevated level of digital proficiency
• Proficient in process design and possesses solid process understanding
• Strong presentation creation and delivery skills
• Demonstrates a global transformation mindset, providing strategic guidance and accountability in developing and executing large-scale transformations

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of Procurement experience or equivalent, preferably in a multinational or global organization
• Experience with a demonstrable record of delivering impactful results within large and complex organizations through design and transformation
• Proven history of leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives within procurement, demonstrating the ability to drive change and innovation
• Demonstrated ability to drive measurable savings and sustainable process adoption at scale

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

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