PepsiCo
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Design Manager, Innovation
Location:
Plano, TX
Description:
OverviewWho We Are...We are a creatively driven team that leverages the power of life centered design thinking to solve brand and business problems that drive meaningful value and growth. Our team's mission is to lead the innovation agenda, to accelerate PepsiCo's global brands and businesses, transforming the portfolio beyond its core. We innovate with intent; to solve real problems, for people, world around us, in the current and projected world. We innovate to incite positive and impactful change.The DESIGN & INNOVATION Team based in Plano, TX is committed to driving PepsiCo's transformation, prioritizing acceleration of growth in white spaces, established categories, territories, and areas of the FritoLay, PepsiCo Foods North America business. We champion a ONE team philosophy, a design function which focuses on the end-to-end innovation which 'strategizes, innovates, creates, validates, and seeds opportunities', with common practice and tight BU alignment global. This position is permanently based in PepsiCo Foods N.A. Plano, TX. You are... * Self-starting with entrepreneurial spirit * Thrives in relationship building. * Adept managing ambiguity, able to sprint as well as deliver against key internal forum dates. * Resilient with hustle * A creative multi-disciplinary fluid thinker who never gives up * Someone who lives to bring your ideas to life. * Able to toggle between strategy & execution. * High empathy and relationship building with consumers and internal stakeholders. * Fluent in design and conversant on emerging food & nutrition trends * Fluent an array of design tools and skills, including 3D, digital, GenAi, and design-led thinking methodology. * Clear experience in H1 to H3 Innovation pipeline building * Experienced in a broader blend of illustration, storytelling, graphic, product/food, packaging, digital and experience design activity. * Passionate about enacting change to improve the world and how we nourish ourselves.What You'll Do...As Design Innovation Manager will play a critical role in applying a short-, mid- and long-term innovation strategy, driving human centered design creative process, directly partnering with team directors and cross functional and external resources. All innovative proposals will fuel projects that extend our PepsiCo Foods North America portfolio.You will apply your experience, strength in design-led thinking tools, comfort in facilitating working sessions, will enables the completion of high performing opportunities, which supports team and delivers value for our team and stakeholders. This role will partner closely with the cross-functional team, manage a broad volume of data, insights, and foresights, synthesizing to curate exciting solutions for its intended customer or user. This individual is highly experienced in the full workshop creative process, handling and responsible for curating best in class ideas, creating, delivering early sketch-work to final rendered concepts. The candidate has demonstrated the strength of digital, technology and eco-green-sustainability layers, seamlessly communicated through relevant presentation tools and software. Design Innovation & Design Thinking Practitioner: You will help drive the delivery of effective design thinking & innovation projects for PepsiCo's businesses, comfortable managing the ambiguity inherent in design processes. This individual will have high proficiency planning, organizing, and implementing consistent design principles and processes to ensure that the design, strategy, and respect important scale and affordability factors. They represent and practice a 'build, test and learn' philosophy to help quickly prototype and learn during the innovation process. You will showcase your expert ability within design thinking, which underpins all our engagements, to pollinate design thinking within the organization through practical design methodologies, solving complex branding problems and uncovering transformation opportunities to help brands get the most out of their design investments.Product: You are known for relentlessly innovating, embracing insights, trends and delivering solutions. Leveraging your deep experience and passion for commercializing product. You lead by example, building positive creative culture, and empower your peers with the right level of visibility and ownership.Responsibilities * Best-in-class XF team collaboration and relationship building. * Champion design-thinking, 4-lens process, across our project portfolio priorities, applying, educating while collaborating. * Draw on diverse perspectives to solve design problems and drive effective solutions. * Articulate design vision through prototyping, scenario modeling, strategic roadmaps, etc. * Collaborate closely with researchers, marketers, media teams to cross-pollinate ideas, methods, and approaches * Drive and implement team methodologies, nurture the design & innovation capabilities, and deliver high quality solutions. * Provide mentorship and support the professional development to junior team members * Work collaboratively to build relationships and get things done through formal and informal channels * Proven ability to effectively incorporate research (including primary and secondary research) in strategic design processes. Passionate about building empathy with consumers to understand the 'why.' * Curate and conduct brainstorming and synthesis workshops, leading development phases with XF teams, and curating output. * Hands on sketching, illustration, concept development techniques to create and communicate lo-fi to Gen-ai concepts. * Highly collaborative, able to ideate and construct ideas within a ONE team-based design environment. * Experienced in conducting and facilitating concept generation sessions. * High-level presentation building and presenting experience. Compensation and Benefits: * The expected compensation range for this position is between $102,800 - $172,100 based on a full-time schedule. * Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary * Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually. * Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement. * In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.QualificationsMinimum Qualifications: * 8+ years of experience, with a minimum of 3 years (recent) in a strategic design innovation role * Degree(s) in Product Design, Architecture, Engineering, Design Innovation, Brand Design, Design Strategy and/or MBAPreferred Qualifications: * Proven experience in Design Strategy, Innovation & Product Development. * Proven track record of strong leadership, team management skills and a strategic acumen * Experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment, influencing interdisciplinary teams. * Hands-on creative concept output and delivery, anchored in facts and human centered Intelligence. * Curate and manage workshops. * Superior project management and design management skills; attention to detail * Compelling presentation and proposal skills * Proven ability to multi-task, work in ambiguous and dynamic work environment; is comfortable with risk and uncertainty * Able to effectively incorporate research (including primary and secondary research) in strategic design processesEEO StatementAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender IdentityIf you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.Please view our Pay Transparency Statement
Company:
Pepsico
Posted:
April 23 on Broadbean
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