Responsibilities

• Lead innovation strategy tied to portfolio activation initiatives across key growth platforms, focused on LTOs.
• Develop strategic recommendations that connect category trends, consumer insights, brand priorities, and customer opportunities to drive incremental growth.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities, emerging trends, cultural moments, and consumer needs to inform future innovation pipelines.
• Lead cross-functional teams through stage-gate processes to bring innovation concepts from ideation through commercialization.
• Partner with Sales and Customer teams to develop compelling activation programs, sell stories, and customer-specific innovation opportunities.
• Drive alignment across Brand, Insights, Finance, R&D, Design, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to ensure flawless execution.
• Develop learning agendas and post-launch assessments to capture insights, optimize future programs, and improve innovation effectiveness.
• Create executive-ready recommendations and presentations to influence decision-making and gain leadership alignment on strategic priorities.
• Champion a consumer-centric mindset while balancing creativity, feasibility, financial performance, and speed to market.

Requirements

• Previous CPG and/or agency innovation experience strongly preferred
• MBA degree or BBA with 3+ years of direct, full-time work experience
• Strong project management skills and cross-functional team experience
• Strong demonstrative leadership potential and strategic thinking
• A passion for understand consumer behavior and an ability to translate trends and insights into product ideas that uniquely satisfy unmet needs
• Can-do spirit with an aptitude in dealing with ambiguity facilitated by a penchant for creative-thinking and problem-solving
• Ability to keep others engaged and accountable while delivering results flawlessly and on-time
• A sense of urgency, bias for action, and strong attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• A curiosity to learn about all parts of innovation and the functions that go into turning concepts into products

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.