Responsibilities

• Global Communications Operations (Core, Ongoing Responsibility) Serve as a senior operational leader for the day‑to‑day running of the global communications function.
• Set and maintain the operating cadence for global communications: - Standing leadership forums and support for Communications Leadership Team (CLT) - Ways of Working, processes, best practices, Centers of Excellence - Function connectivity and communications - Culture, learning - Drive clarity of priorities , sequencing, and resourcing across competing demands. - Act as a connective tissue between strategy, execution, and leadership expectations.
• Enterprise Strategy Ownership - Own the enterprise‑wide communications strategy to address UPF‑related headwinds, integrating: - Fiber and protein storytelling - Portfolio transformation progress - GLP‑1 implications - Away From Home and K‑12 channel considerations - Policy communications - Social Media, Digital Channels, including paid tactics - Corporate Brand Communications - Establish the narrative architecture (message hierarchy, proof points, guardrails, escalation principles). - Ensure strategy is forward‑looking, proactive, and grounded in science, consumer insights and PepsiCo’s transformation.
• Strategic Convening & Senior Stakeholder Alignment - Convene leaders across Corporate Affairs and Communications to ensure shared understanding of priorities, risks, and narrative direction aligned with enterprise steering committee chaired by Steven Williams. - Sit in regularly with: - Andrea Foote’s media, issues, and crisis leadership team, Dan Strechay’s corporate communications organization, including R&D‑adjacent (Jaclyn Tyng) connection points and CA/PPGA Comms lead (open role) - Translate enterprise strategy into clear, actionable direction for teams responsible for execution, and look end-to-end across workstreams to build broader strategy.
• Executive Voice Strategy - Own the executive deployment strategy for priority issues, with a primary focus on Steven Williams . Partner with his CBP and other CBPs for executive voices in the food space to ensure consistency in narrative. - Ensure executive engagement is: - Proactive, not reactive - Strategically sequenced - Consistent with and driving toward enterprise narrative - Partner closely with Media, and Issues teams to operationalize executive positioning.
• Agency Oversight & Insight‑Led Execution - Oversee agency partner(s) supporting research and listening, message testing, insight generation and engagement plan. - Ensure insights directly inform: - Narrative refinement - Executive talking points - Channel and stakeholder strategy - Develop and manage agency scope.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of relevant experience across Communications or related positions including Enterprise Communications Strategy
• Demonstrated success with executive communications and stakeholder management and ability to integrate multiple teams into a single, aligned strategy and execution mode
• Project Management and Organizational Skills: Must excel in project management, translating complex visions into actionable plans, and driving projects forward with proactive, sustained management.
• Strong track record of navigating complex reputation or public policy issues
• Judgment and Decision-Making Skills: Ability to prioritize effectively and make swift, well-considered decisions.
• Communication Skills: Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, adaptable to a range of audiences and channels.
• Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences.
• Maintain the highest level of discretion and confidentiality when handling sensitive and proprietary information, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal regulations.

Benefits

• 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.