Digital Product Associate Manager

PepsiCos Product Delivery team, as part of the Digital Products and Applications (DPA) organization, delivers and sustains digital products across Strategy and Transformations core priorities to accelerate PepsiCos digital transformation. The Digital Product Associate Manager is accountable for leading a global FinOps team and collaborating broadly with other teams to substantially reduce infrastructure costs.

• Define and clearly communicate the FinOps strategy, objectives, milestones and key results. [This role is accountable for making FinOps strategic decisions. The role must consult and clearly communicate with roles up to SVP. This role must broadly and effectively communicate the strategy and plan within DP&A and across other organizations and functions.]
• Define and execute an integrated FinOps plan. [This role is accountable for making decisions and leading a global team to execute an integrated plan, which relies substantially on other teams to deliver. This role must influence others who are often at higher levels and not direct reports and often with competing priorities. This role must effectively collaborate with other functions and organizations (e.g. Vendor Management, Finance, PepsiCo Cloud Cost Office, etc)]
• Reduce cloud and on-premise infrastructure costs. [This role must consider many factors and make difficult tradeoff decisions to reduce costs without adversely impacting business expectations for about DP&A 300 apps. This role must communicate effectively so people who are not direct reports take action. This leader must also increase transparency by building dashboarding and insights to convince people to act, to identify issues and to celebrate successes.]
• Lead AMS contract management to structure & implement optimized pricing model for DP&A apps. [This role must broadly collaborate with other colleagues, leadership and Vendor Management to reduce vendor costs without adversely impacting business expectations for about 300 DP&A apps.]
• Rationalize apps to save money. [This role must gather evidence and clearly articulate a compelling reason why some apps should be decommissioned. This role must have the ability to persuade others to make difficult decisions and changes, then hold people accountable for implementing the changes.]
• Optimize inefficient processes and tools. [This role must identify inefficiencies in processes and tools then make improvement decisions. Recommendations must be convincingly communicated to others. Making changes requires planning and collaboration with other teams across DP&A and other organizations. The changes have the potential to impact many people across geographies at a variety of roles and in different functions and organization.]
• Increase transparency via reporting and insights. [This role must identify what dashboards, reports and insights are needed then lead the team to design, build, test, deploy and sustain these analytics. This requires understanding complex data and leading a team to work with different tools. This role must set measurable goals and KPIs.]
• Research and implement the latest FinOps best practices and tools. [This role must consult people within PepsiCo and externally to understand FinOps best practices. This role must decide what best practices to implement and convince others to implement them. For example, this role must understand how, if at all, AI can be used in FinOps. This role must be able to convince people to change and then execute any changes.

• 7+ years of experience leading an IT team in a large company or top-tier consulting firm
• Highly analytical with the ability to simplify complexity and make good decisions
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and mitigate uncertainty while dealing with ambiguity
• Creative thinker who is passionate about making things more efficient and effective
• Experienced change leader who can build broad networks and deliver results in a collaborative way
• Ability to clearly communicate and convince others to act using influence rather than direct control
• Highly experienced presentation skills with the ability to communicate with senior leaders and have the skills to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically then exceed expectations with tactical execution
• Experience leading and manager diverse and global teams of contractors and employees
• Curiosity for learning and for helping others grow
• Preferred experience in FinOps and/or Finance
• Experience working with vendors to deliver highly visible & complex programs
• Experience applying agile ways of working (e.g. Scrum, SAFe) to deliver results with high team org health