Indirect Procurement Manager - 12 month FTC

Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making everyday favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com

The key objective of this role is to define and execute the IT & Purchased Services strategy and productivity opportunities and ambition for both UK&I and PepsiCo International within categories under management (Temp Labour, Merchandising, Fleet, HR Services, Professional Services & Travel, IT, POS & PI) through understanding local market needs, partnership relationships with suppliers, and alignment with stakeholders.

Role Dimensions

• Lead managed scope execution, with an Integrated Category Management approach ensuring not only sourcing delivery but also cooperating with POC in enabling delivery of myBuy targets in UK & Ireland.
• Develop and/or enable procurement strategies for UK & Ireland through category expertise, market intelligence, and close interaction with ESSA Category Leads.
• Identify key productivity projects/initiatives within managed categories, develop and align these with stakeholders and suppliers, and implement them to capture savings.
• Ensure effective supplier relationship management: set up preferred supplier rosters, monitor and track supplier performance, and have periodic supplier review meetings.
• Capture the value delivered from any procurement-led or supported initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Indirects procurement strategies in the managed categories in UK & Ireland through driving credibility and trust with internal stakeholders, PepsiCo purchasing community, and suppliers.
• Increase and maintain procurement coverage from current average to 75% + for whole ITPS in UK & Ireland.
• Sustainably deliver 6%+ pa productivity in managed scope through total cost of ownership approach, category management, and X-Functional partnership.
• Build category expertise and market intelligence for Purchased Services categories in UK & Ireland.
• Lead sourcing events at UK & Ireland level for Purchased Services categories.
• Implement Supplier Relationship Management, evaluation processes, and relevant KPI’s covering quality, service, innovation, sustainability, and value for managed categories.
• Develop and share best practices via effective networking with ITPS category leads in Europe.
• Control and governance for IT & Purchased Services categories.
• Own and manage categories on myBuy: ensure category cards & new supplier approvals are in place and updated. Responsible for delivery of planned myBuy spend through and for savings delivery in categories of responsibility.
• Ensure early, pro-active engagement with senior management and budget holders in UK and Ireland to understand how the Indirects purchasing team can support the business agenda and ensure Indirects strategies are aligned with business needs.
• Work closely with Finance teams to ensure Indirects value delivery is tracked, reported, and captured, enabling senior management to make timely decisions on productivity capture or re-investment.
• Coach and support development of local team as a senior member of the team.

Qualifications

• A strong background in Indirects Purchasing within an FMCG environment ideally.
• Ability to lead and apply strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, and total cost of ownership.
• Sound knowledge of IT and Purchased categories – with a focus on Purchased Services.
• Excellent business acumen, knowledge of financial fundamentals, and analytical skills.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to interact with key stakeholders and build trust at all levels of the organisation.
• Communication and interpersonal skills, planning and organizing, accuracy and attention to detail, capacity to build trustful relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Role requires a combination of strategic thinking and executional excellence.
• Results-oriented – comfortable identifying, setting, and delivering against stretch targets.
• Ability to manage a high level of diverse projects simultaneously.
• Ability to communicate business strategies to suppliers as well as internal stakeholders and obtain buy-in.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We’re also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb workforce. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of the executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long-term career.

A space to be you

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), ask our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010. We value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability, or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

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