Function IT Lead

Job Description

<strong>Overview</strong><p><br></p><strong>PepsiCo’s strength is its people. Winning together is all about respect for one another’s unusual traits, backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Our teams reflect the diversity of our customers and our communities, breaking down barriers and winning awards.</strong><p><br></p><strong>Around the world, we’re working hard to give people the tastes they crave and the nutrition they need. We dream globally and act locally, constantly innovating to sustain our planet, our people, our communities and our business practices. As a global food and beverage company with brands that stand for quality and are respected household names such as Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Lay’s and Pepsi-Cola, we are committed to Performance with Purpose; pushing to be best and fully committed to the people we share the planet with.</strong><p><br></p><strong>Are you ready to explore PepsiCo and be part of this iconic multinational? Seize the day for real life on the job Learning? Enjoy some flexibility that will ensure you are balancing your personal and professional life?</strong><p><br></p><strong>Our employees are at the heart of PepsiCo. Through the Company’s dedication to Talent Sustainability, we continue to support the development of employees. A possibility, our employment brand, reinforces our dedication to our people; enabling them to reach new heights in their careers and becoming truly world-class talents. PepsiCo is universally recognized as one of the best companies in the world for leadership development.</strong><p><br></p><strong>Role is responsible to provide leadership, ownership, and accountability for the relationships between IT and business spread across several counties in Middle East BU. It will lead the end-to-end demand, delivery, deployment, and maintenance of digitalization initiatives from business case creation to deployment in coordination with the AMESA Sector and Global IT teams. Functional and technical support for business process execution on the application landscape will be a key deliverable</strong><p><br></p><strong>Responsibilities</strong><p><br></p><ul><li>Establishes relationship with senior business leadership to shape digitalization demand. Middle East team is spread across several countries in the Middle East.</li><li>Understand the H1-H3 road map for relevant functions in the business and map it to the 5-year IT strategic plan for the AMESA Sector.</li><li>Actively engage all relevant functions within ME for example Franchise Management, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, etc., and recommend technology solutions to meet the business process requirements</li><li>Be the first point of contact for business on new initiative in terms of being consultant to business for automation.</li><li>Translate business direction in firm action points and align with IT strategy at market and sector level.</li><li>This includes shaping the requirements, proposal creation, business alignment on funding, owning the product end to end for delivery, adoption, and value realization by working with various stakeholders.</li><li>Identify PepsiCo Global platforms and assess, promote, and leverage these digital technologies to increase productivity or to provide new capabilities for the business Improve user capability through the delivery/coordination of training programs related to technology adoption.</li><li>Manage cross functional business partner relationships on project teams to deliver value-adding solutions to the business.</li><li>Manage E2E delivery of the projects/initiatives as covered by the AOP (annual operating plan)</li><li>Alignment with DevSecOps team for overall delivery of business applications &amp; AOP priorities</li><li>This role also includes working with internal IT team including InfoSec, Enterprise Architect, Data&amp;</li><li>Digital teams during the various phases of the projects to ensure the deliverables meet business expectations</li><li>Provide business update on overall projects portfolio for relevant functions</li><li>Seek continuous improvement on business solutions and processes based on effective management of incidents and problems within the application stack.</li><li>Come up with continues improvement agenda for reducing the issues and increase business value realization from IT automation.</li><li>Ensure compliance with IT control standards</li><li>Manages Resource planning for the portfolio and ensures the right resources are assigned to the project</li></ul><p><br></p><strong>Qualifications</strong><p><br></p><strong>Experience/Education</strong><p><br></p><ul><li>University degree with IT background</li><li>10-12 years’ experience in core IT field</li><li>3+ in IT team management role</li></ul><p><br></p><strong>Competencies</strong><p><br></p><ul><li>Application development methodologies</li><li>DevSecOps and Agile fundamentals</li><li>IT Project management</li><li>Familiar with leading off the shelf business applications</li><li>Understanding SaaS offerings</li><li>Familiar with compute and network infrastructure fundamentals</li><li>Multinational FMCG corporate experience in similar role preferred</li><li>Experience of working with commercial functions will be an advantage</li><li>Able to influence senior internal stakeholders</li><li>Strong business relationship experience, comfortably and confidently interacting with senior leadership</li><li>Able to exploit PepsiCo Global technological capabilities whilst understanding the local market business strategies and propose value adding solutions to Middle East Beverages business. Able to shape and manage demand within Beverages</li><li>Strong business analysis skill Advanced deployment planning and execution experience Good technology knowledge with good understanding of IT risk management and controls Good knowledge of corporate financials</li></ul>