PepsiCo

Makes salty snacks, sodas and sports drinks

Global Growth Navigator & Business Analytics Lead

Data ScienceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeHyderabad, Telangana, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A Master's degree in Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Marketing, Management, or Business Administration is required.
At least 9–10 years of functional experience in Market Research, Consumer Insights, Data Analytics, or Management Consulting, with significant CPG industry exposure in business, consumer insights, or brand strategy, is required.
Hands-on knowledge of Nielsen/Circana retail point-of-sale data and Kantar/GfK/Numerator household panel data is required; experience with GlobalData and Euromonitor is also specified.
At least 4–6 years of functional consultative experience in advanced point-of-sale modeling, including regression modeling, cluster analyses, segmentation, price and promotion effectiveness/optimization modeling, and distribution/perfect-store analytics, is required.
Experience working in the CPG and Food & Beverage industries is required.
Experience managing global or international projects and global stakeholders is required.
Two to four years of experience leading small teams of two to four individuals is required.
Strong spoken and written business communication skills are required.
Ability to think in a structured way, solve problems, work independently, and find creative solutions is required.
Leadership qualities, including leading teams, conflict and change management, and business partnership acumen, are required.
Multicultural stakeholder management skills in a matrix organization are required.
A self-starting, solution-oriented approach to problem solving is required.
Ability to analyze diverse data, extract holistic insights, and present them visually and through storytelling is required.

Responsibilities

Partner with PLI Global Insights and FP&A to deliver end-to-end performance reporting scorecards for global top markets, identifying business questions, macro trends, category and competitor movements, and portfolio, segment, and brand performance using syndicated retail and consumer panel data.
Deliver the global Growth Navigator capabilities agenda through analytics-focused performance reviews, codifying distribution and point-of-sale levers, and enhancing growth navigator modeling and framework application.
Partner with and serve as a connection point to the commercial RGM GCC team, providing analytical inputs to measure in-market performance of promotions and PPA actions.
Use alternative data sources to address data gaps and incorporate cross-functional learnings beyond retail data into reporting.
Explain business performance, drivers, optimization opportunities, and actionable insights through clear commentary and storytelling.
Respond to ad hoc follow-ups with relevant data, tables, charts, and narratives.
Manage individual time effectively and deliver agreed work within established timelines and scope.
Monitor and act on regular feedback from deliverable users and business partners.
Bring in best practices and capabilities, collaborating with GCC capability teams to enhance and evolve the partnership model.
Maintain regular communications and governance with key stakeholders, keeping them updated on project plans, workflow monitoring, quality checks, challenges, and changes.
Deliver the defined digital transformation agenda for global performance tracking, leveraging global and regional synchronization to simplify and digitize processes.
Build and manage long-term partnerships with external vendors and data suppliers to support business intelligence needs, and ensure contingency and action plans are in place when results are unsatisfactory.
Establish safeguards and quality checks to ensure quality and consistency, including regular trend monitoring to identify and address potential trend breaks.
Coach and onboard new team members in team practices and processes, and lead the team's end-to-end performance and career management.
Manage a team of analysts, ensuring team performance, engagement, and development plans.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with digital tools such as Power BI and AI.

Overview

Primary responsibilities of Global Growth Navigator & Business Analytics role (L09) includes end-to-end partnership with global insights, FP&A, commercial (RGM) to deliver on data & analytics for retail performance tracking and ad-hoc business questions pertaining to market position, share, growth drivers, brand diagnostics. The role will also be responsible for supporting to embed growth navigator across top markets, driving digital transformation agenda and be a strong linkage to support new commercial RGM team with analytics input

The role will lead a small team of one Analyst, but remain the key POC for team’s output quality, periodic and on-demand performance reviews, addressing ad-hoc requests based on internal and external data sources, to bring out deep and holistic insights from retail data, consumer panel data to identifying emerging trends, recognizing growth drivers, diagnosing barriers and hurdles to be removed, and flagging risks pertaining to competition, market share, forecast etc.

Responsibilities

Functional Responsibilities:

Partnership and Delivery excellence
- Partner with PLI Global Insights,FP&A for performance reporting scorecards end to end for Global top markets. Identify business questions to be answered, macro trends, category/ competitor movements, and overall portfolio/ segment/ brand performance based on syndicated retail data and consumer panel data received from partner agencies.
- Deliver global capabilities agenda on Growth Navigator performance reviews with analytics focus on codifying distribution/POS levers, growth navigator modelling to enhance the framework application
- Partner and act as a connection point to commercial RGM GCC team to provide analytical inputs to measure in market performance promotions and PPA actions.
- Use alternative sources for data gaps and leverage cross-functional learnings to incorporate considerations beyond retail data into reporting.
- Ensure good commentary and storytelling to explain business performance, drivers, optimization opportunities, and the key insights to action.
- Provide responses to ad-hoc follow-ups when double-click required with tables/charts/stories using relevant data
- Responsible for individual optimal utilization of time and delivering on agreed timelines and scope.
- Monitor and act upon regular feedback inputs from deliverables end-users and Business Partners
- Bring in best practices/capabilities and collaborate with GCC capability teams to enhance and evolve partnership model
Digitalization & Data Governance
- Maintain regular comms and governance with key stakeholders, keeping all updated on project plan, workflow monitoring, quality checks, challenges to fix, changes to manage.
- Deliver defined digital transformation agenda for Global performance tracking needs. Leverage global/ regional synchronization efforts to drive simplification and digitization
- Build and manage long term partnerships with external vendors/ data suppliers to support business intelligence needs and ensure contingency/action plans when dissatisfactory results arise
- Establish safeguards and quality checks to ensure quality and consistency, e.g. regular trend-watch to identify and address potential trend breaks.
People/ Talent Management
- Coach and on- board new members of the team in ways of working and processes. Lead E2E performance and career management of the team
- Manage of a team of one analysts, ensuring team performance, engagement, and development plans.

Qualifications

Essential:

Education: Masters in Economics, Maths/ Statistics, Marketing/ Management/ Business Administration
Min 9-10 years functional experience in Market Research/ Consumer Insights/ Data Analytics/ Management Consulting, with significant exposure to CPG industry (business, consumer insights, brand strategy)
Quant data & analytics savvy: Hands-on knowledge on Nielsen/IRI retail/POS, Kantar/GFK HH panel, Global Data, Euromonitor. Nielsen/Circana retail POS and Kantar/GFK/Numerator HH Panel is must have skill set needed for this role
Min 4-6 years functional consultative experience (not data scientists) in advanced modeling on POS (regression modelling, cluster analyses, segmentation, price & promotion effectiveness/optimization modelling, distribution/perfect stores analytics etc.)
Experience in working in CPG and Food & Beverage industry
Experience managing global/ intermational projects and global stakeholder. Experience in matrix-set up/ MNCs a bonus.
Team management experience of 2-4 yrs leading small teams of 2-4 individuals
Excellent business communication skills – spoken and written.
Structured thinker / problem solver who works independently and has the ability to look for creative/out of the box solutions. Desirable :
Experience on digital tools like PowerBI, Ai
Differentiating Competencies Required
- Leadership qualities: Leading teams, conflict and change management, business partnership acumen
- Multicultural stakeholder management skills in a matrix organisation
- Self Starter, Solution-oriented approach to problem solving
- Analytical thinking; ability to extract holistic insights from diverse data, and present these in highly visual and storytelling style.

About the Company

PepsiCo

Makes salty snacks, sodas and sports drinks

PepsiCo makes snack foods and soft drinks that supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants sell around the world. It owns some of the most familiar grocery brands, including Lay's and Doritos chips from its Frito-Lay division and Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Gatorade on the drinks side, along with Quaker oats and cereals. The company runs its own plants and distribution network and earns most of its money selling finished products to retailers and foodservice customers, while partner bottlers produce some of its drinks under license. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Harrison, NY
Founded: 1965

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