E2E Forecasting Process Lead

Overview

The Process Owner is accountable for owning and improving the end-to-end Trade Promotion Management and forecasting process across the UK business. The role plays a critical part in strengthening forecasting accuracy, which is essential to delivering commercial targets and supporting long-term profitable growth.

The position has a clear mandate to identify and address current process inefficiencies, delivering short term fixes while shaping and planning longer term, sustainable improvements including automation. Acting as the process lead, the role will coordinate closely with Sales, Finance, Supply Chain and Global Capability Centre (PepsiCo Shared Service centre) stakeholders to ensure alignment, governance and disciplined process adherence.

The role will also ensure robust KPI management, documentation and training governance to drive standardisation and consistency across the UK&I Business Unit. Finally the role will work hand in hand with other key transformations such as IBP and RGM transformation to ensure process changes are fully aligned with wider business initiatives.

Responsibilities Process optimization

• Responsible for optimized process design by identifying inefficiencies and implementing process improvement initiatives.

Coordination and stakeholder management

• Facilitate coordination among senior stakeholders in Sales, Supply Chain, Finance and Global Capability Centre (PepsiCo Shared Service centre).
• Engages stakeholders to ensure alignment with their requirements and expectations and to resolve proces conflicts (Sales, Supply Chain, Sales finance, Global Capability Centre (PepsiCo Shared Service centre) management).

Training governance

• Oversee training governance to educate on process adherence, optimization and standardization. Ensure all stakeholders are equipped with necessary knowledge.
• Manage the governance of process documentation to maintain comprehensive, clear and consistent documentation.

Process adherence

• Responsible for strict adherence to process and procedures across all departments and service providers, address breaches.

KPI implementation and monitoring

• Responsible for setting and monitoring process metrics to track and enhance process performance.

Link in with IBP/RGM project

• Work with IBP and RGM project teams to ensure that any initiatives support roll out of these projects.

Qualifications

• E2E forecasting knowledge: understanding of the process E2E including how it works in practice.
• Ability to influence at senior level.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Results-oriented strategic thinker who demonstrates a bias for action with a can do approach to work.
• Excellent analytical skills. Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Outstanding Project Management: Ability to lead a broad and complex agenda autonomously with strong prioritization skills - requires working in a highly matrixed organization, handling competing priorities and connecting the dots across multiple large scale initiatives that have interconnecting impact across functions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills (ability to create presentations and present in a clear and succinct manner to senior audiences).
• Good knowledge of the UK&I Business Unit system and opportunities/challenges, as well as the UK operating environment (consumer, channel, macros, competitors).

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits-from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.