Digital Product - Sr Manager (Delivery Leader)

Overview

PepsiCo’s Product Delivery & Success team, as part of the Digital Products and Applications (DPA) organization, drives end-to-end delivery across Strategy and Transformation’s core priorities by collaborating across functions to accelerate PepsiCo’s digital transformation initiatives. One of the key remits of the Delivery Team is to provide delivery governance and execution oversight through Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and Scrum Masters for the key digital transformation programs in PepsiCo. The TPM role is a hands-on delivery role along with people management responsibility for all Scrum Masters on the program.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical program management across multiple, cross-functional programs from initial conception through design and development to delivery of tested, usable prototypes
• Work across cross-functional partners (engineering, business, and design) to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and timelines across programs
• Lead team of Scrum Masters supporting complex transformation programs by coaching them on PepsiCo-specific tools, frameworks, and processes related to DevSecOps Delivery
• Proactively identify technical, procedural, legal, logistical, and communications challenges and partner with leads to drive creative solutions to resolve issues and mitigate risks
• Developing governance and compliance processes across multiple teams in line with the organization’s needs.
• Reporting business risks to senior leadership through trend analysis and data-driven reporting.
• Responsible for long-term growth opportunities, risk identification, planning, communication, and partnering with internal and external teams.
• Works independently and in a group setting, anticipates follow-up questions and responds with supporting data
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written, as you will be required to write white papers, status reports, leadership reports, and build precision decks/documentation.
• Frequent communication with program leadership to shape and deliver on the product roadmap requires a nimble switch between strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve technical and business goals
• Experience with Agile, object-oriented modeling, web services, middleware, databases, and data mining systems

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $118,700 - $198,800.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting the 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 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• 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

• 10-15 years of work experience as a Delivery Lead / Technical Program Management, either in CPG delivery teams or with a Top-Tier consulting firm.
• Extremely adept at stakeholder management, proactive risk analysis, and excellent negotiation skills. Ability to navigate ambiguity with ease and bring structure.
• The ideal technical program manager (TPM) will be highly quantitative, have great judgment, be able to connect dots across workstreams, identify critical program dependencies, and have a strong track record of delivery.
• The TPM lead will have a pragmatic approach and iterative approach to building software, including the ability to simplify and get things done with a demonstrated track record of building and delivering software and working effectively with external and internal teams.
• The TPM lead will dive deep to understand the infrastructure, dataset dependencies for local requirements for feature/application deployments, integration testing requirements before deployment.
• Exceptional business relationship skills, including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• A good understanding of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) models and a track record of shipping software efficiently. You recognize the difference between building software and shipping software.
• A strong track record of program delivery for large, comple