Responsibilities

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a SPL Development Specialist (Temporary) to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located in PepsiCo Park and will be reporting to the SPL Development Lead. The role involves driving and guiding the implementation of an operational standardization and continuous improvement framework within the Supply Planning & Logistics team. This includes defining operational standards and pathways for systemic process and methodology improvements. Additionally, the individual engages, guides, and supports operations in executing improvement plans within this framework. They also manage the capability building agenda to enable the achievement of both short-term and long-term business objectives. Designing and developing resources and tools to support the implementation of the excellence framework and capability building agenda are key responsibilities. Proactively partnering with key stakeholders ensures effective implementation of sector/global capability initiatives and tools, aligning them with specific business needs. Moreover, the role entails implementing key processes based on identified learning and development requirements, in line with Capability Statement of Expectations and functional strategic workforce plans. Maturity assessments defined by the excellence program are conducted to facilitate the delivery of business objectives.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:

• Accountable for the implementation, tracking & continuous improvement of the operational standardization & excellence model.
• Assess current and future processes and identify opportunities to leverage changes and ensure standardization in process and systems across all operations.
• Collaborate with operational leads within SPL to ensure technical detail accuracy & relevance within the standardization model as well as entrenchment within respective operations as the SPL “way of working”.
• Establish operational criteria and guidelines to improve overall performance with SPL functions with clear progression pathways from basic to excellence levels per operational requirement & functional area.
• Visiting, coaching and auditing teams at BU and site level on success levers and best practice methodologies within the standardization model -enabling local ownership, deployment and management of the model.
• Create an SPL community of practice to share best practices & learnings amongst the various operations in support of accelerated learning and improvement.
• Collaborate with the broader PepsiCo SPL community within other business units to enable key learnings and best practice sharing.
• Customize and launch training programs & learning initiatives to ensure effective ROI at all organizational levels
• Coordinate the deployment of capability platforms, delivery of training and coaching frameworks.
• Manage and coordinate 3rd party vendors in delivering training solutions (consultants, agencies, learning institutions etc) in alignment with Smart spend policies
• Monitoring of competency models to enable accelerated time to competence through formal assessments and on the job coaching.
• Diagnose, pioneer and pilot Learning initiatives to enable best practices in alignment with the 10:70:20 principle of learning.
• Maintain Excellent partnering relationships with key stakeholders (Line Managers, HR, CoE’s, other business units)
• Ensure effective and efficient Project management of Capability Programme implementation and other learning activities on a need’s basis
• Develop tools to ensure the consistent tracking, monitoring and assessing of the measures of success for all Capability programmes
• Compile and present learning and development data on a regular basis to all key stakeholders and establish communication platforms and forums to ensure key stakeholder awareness of ongoing progress of Capability initiatives and programmes.
• Participate in the design, implementation and follow up of projects that aim to capture new business improvement opportunities
• Ensure strong partnership with the Performance Excellence function to develop, implement and assess the effectiveness of capability programmes to support LEAN initiatives

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role

Qualifications

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification

Experience

• Minimum 4-7 years FMCG experience
• Experience in developing; entrenching & evolving excellence frameworks with a longer-term view to improvement.
• Experience of successfully managing projects with multiple stakeholders from varying functions

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills, self-awareness and diplomacy, being able to adapt approach and gain buy-in, unifying a group of strong and varying personalities towards a common goal, possess the capability to interact with all levels across the organization
• Presentation and strong communication skills
• Coaching and enabling skills
• Constructive feedback skills; providing feedback in a clear, constructive and professional manner
• Analytical and well organized
• Customer centric with a High business orientation
• Self-starter and self-motivator, ability to shape set and manage capability agenda
• Ability to multi-task and balance a complex and very broad agenda,
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast moving and changing environment,
• Very strong attention to detail, with a bias for accuracy and quality
• Ability to focus and get things done fast
• High levels of integrity
• Works well in teams