Procurement Commodities Manager - Grains

Overview

The Grains Commodities Manager role is part of the Global Grains Procurement team and will play a critical role in developing and executing global category strategy. This role will partner globally with category leads, cross-functional teams, and senior leaders to build business cases, shape category strategies, and influence decisions across sectors. Success requires strong executive-level communication, analytical capability, stakeholder engagement, and development of a deep understanding of global grains sourcing and supplier markets.

 

 

Responsibilities

• Support global grains portfolio management across approximately USD 1.9B in spend, partnering with global, regional, and local teams to deliver a coordinated category agenda.
• Lead market intelligence, competitor benchmarking, and supplier analysis to identify sourcing strategy opportunities, cost drivers, market risks, and competitive advantage opportunities.
• Partner with global/sector leads to develop and deploy world-class sourcing strategies that identify opportunities across regions, leverage global scale, improve resilience, and step-change productivity and sustainability delivery.
• Benchmark specifications and identify harmonization opportunities to reduce complexity and expand supply options.
• Coordinate global demand visibility with operations and sector teams to ensure capacity plans are aligned with business needs, supplier development priorities, and long-term supply assurance requirements.
• Identify, assess, and develop alternative suppliers and low-cost country sourcing opportunities to improve competitiveness, diversify supply, and support regional execution within global guardrails.
• Lead preparation, coordination, execution, negotiation, and award of global tenders in partnership with sectors
• Partner with R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, and suppliers to develop the grains innovation and intellectual property agenda, including new ingredients, processing capabilities, sustainability solutions, and advantaged supply models.
• Develop, implement, and manage strategic supplier partnerships to deliver cost reduction, capacity assurance, quality improvement, sustainability, innovation, and risk mitigation.
• Develop a multi-year productivity pipeline strategy driven by transformational unlocks to reduce costs, leverage of global insights and scale, and robust negotiations.
• Partner with sector leads to deliver and exceed AOP commitments
• Develop and deploy commercial, supplier, and market risk management capabilities, including hedging where applicable, to protect grains supply continuity, financial performance, and business resilience.
• Influence global peers, regional stakeholders, and senior leaders to embrace coordinated grains strategies, complex negotiations, scaled supplier approaches, and new value-added processes across a matrixed organization.

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $110,700 - $185,250.
• 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 12% 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

Education/Certification:

 

• BS in Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance. Preferred degree with focus in Business, Ag Economics, or Engineering.

 

Work Experience:

 

• 7+ years of work experience in engineering, research & development, purchasing, or other relevant experience

 

Skills & Capabilities:

 

• Strategic thinking: Ability to translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed
• Functional expertise: Very good knowledge of the ag/commodities supply chain and markets (supplier & competitor landscape, market fundamentals, agricultural forces, etc.)
• Excellent leader, demonstrating ability to influence up and across the organization
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to clearly communicate vision and quickly gain alignment with senior management, both internally and externally
• Ability to