Sr Manager Strategic Foresight & Visions

About the job Overview

We are Pepsi Co Design, and our mission is to inspire the future through the work we imagine, develop and execute. Our goal is to connect Pepsi Co’s beverage, snacks and food portfolios with consumers who seek meaningful, sustainable, authentic and relevant experiences across multiple touch points and regions of the world.

Our mission is to drive the sustainability & innovation agendas for Pepsi Co’s Global brands and businesses to help it grow and transform beyond its core. We drive circularity and innovation by researching, strategizing, defining, prototyping, learning, and launching strategically aligned and commercially viable new products, services, business models, retail experiences, brands and systems. We challenge and seek to change how Pepsi Co works to drive true business innovation with more sustainability and purpose.

We are a creatively driven team that leverages the power of four lenses (desirability, feasibility, viability, sustainability) led Design Thinking to solve strategic problems from system level business challenges to designing new eating experiences, their packaging and delivery systems.

We leverage tools from product design, design research, system thinking, strategic foresight, business model design, service design and circular economy; to solve problems, for people and the planet, in the real world. We innovate to incite positive change – for people, brands, business, and the world around us. We know what it takes to make ideas a reality and bring that into everything we do.

• Self-starting with entrepreneurial spirit
• Able to toggle between strategy & execution
• Adept managing ambiguity
• Excited by complexity
• Resilient with hustle
• Energized by challenges
• Always questioning & improving
• Optimistic & curious
• A creative multi-disciplinary fluid thinker who never gives up
• Someone who lives to bring your ideas to life
• Empathetic to consumers and internal stakeholders
• Fluent in design and conversant on emerging design, sustainability, food, and nutrition trends
• Good at storytelling, visually & verbally
• Comfortable multitasking
• Passionate about enacting change to improve the world and how we nourish ourselves

• Design and execute quantitative and qualitative research to inform our understanding of current technological, political, environmental, and socioeconomic trends
• Interpret insights from diverse reports and datasets to extract actionable strategic intelligence
• The delivery of futures narratives to engage internal and external partners on how Pepsi Co could address it’s strategic challenges
• The potential strategic investments to ensure “no regret strategy”
• The definition of signals to identify which futures we are moving towards
• Guidance on which investments will provide outsize gains in different scenarios
• Successfully communicating those narratives and strategies to senior stakeholders in partnership with the Senior Director
• Work with our design and corporate communications team to develop externally facing narratives and assets
• Providing guidance to Cross Functional and Design Innovation teams as to how they can integrate foresights into their individual practice and their projects

• Ability to collaborate & partner with XF teams to identify new opportunities and work through the development cycle to deliver new products to market
• A proven ability to move beyond a core design role to understand the complexities of business realities and problem solve outside of their traditional domain
• Desire to expand on their core skill set to create, strategize, and deliver new business models, services, experiences, that deliver against business goals.
• Understand how to strategically influence across XF partners to land opportunities and align against strategies in a dynamic and complex environment with competing agendas
• Proven ability to help deliver actionable visions of the future that point to where companies should go and plan out how to get there

They understand how to translate those strategies into testable prototypes and evaluate them against desirability, feasibility, viability & sustainability as…