Associate Director - IT Strat & Transf

This role is in the newly formed Process Excellence & Transformation function in PepsiCos Strategy & Transformation team focused on driving Process Excellence for prioritized initiatives across mega end to end Business Processes. The objective of the role is to lead process diagnostics and re-engineering to deliver business impact through operations excellence, standardization and automation initiatives across markets including those supported by our global Capability Centers.
The role will support end-to-end process transformation roadmaps as well as specific transformation teams to identify continuous improvement opportunities to deliver business value and enhance customer experience. Initiatives will include driving and mentoring Lean Six Sigma projects, process modelling, process mining diagnostics, process automations and statistical analysis for performance variation and benchmarking to enable operations teams and business stakeholders to meet their goals. He / She will operate as internal consultants, working with cross-functional and global teams on multiple projects. They will be expected to have great presentation skills and ability to influence change with senior stakeholders, functional experts, and delivery teams.

They may also be required to conduct Lean Six Sigma Kaizen sessions, facilitate Value Stream Mapping and Design Thinking sessions. They will need to work closely with Hyper Automation teams and be adept in Agile and Scrum methodologies.

The role will report to senior leaders in the Process Excellence & Transformation team.

As well as the above mandatory requirements, we are also looking for candidates with below-differentiating skills, let us know if you have them, to put your profile on top:

• Business Process Management and process conformance analysis using process modeling.
  
• Process Mining, value enablement, and roadmap execution.
• Task Mining, opportunity identification for standardization and automation
• Agile project management to support hyper-automation projects.
• Experience in AI ML projects to drive process analytics and support business outcomes.
• Experience in change management to ensure project implementation and adoption

• Overall, 15-20 years of experience with at least 8+ years experience in quality / Black belt role

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  Possesses a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Qualification - preferred
• Track record of delivering enterprise wide transformation
• Deep understanding for emerging technologies that support Process Automation
• Experience working with and influencing senior stakeholders
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects.
• Working with tight deadlines.