Sustainability Sr. Manager

CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT 

At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day.

At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Lead the implementation of pep+ governance at PMF, ensuring end-to-end alignment with sustainability targets and guidelines. Oversee cross-functional integration and data traceability, build strategic partnerships to enhance impact delivery at optimized costs, and actively engage in advocacy with government and key stakeholders to support enabling policies that accelerate the sustainability agenda.

THE IMPACT

As Sustainability Sr. Manager your scope would consist of:

• Connect with Regional SO to provide strategic guidance to define the Glidepath and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for achieving the OU’s pep+ targets, ensuring feasibility, alignment with global standards, and integration with business planning cycles.
  • Accountable for providing consultation and making decisions.
  • Impacted: Strategy, finance, Latam sustainability, functional planning teams.
• Lead the deployment and integration of pep+ strategy within the OU, ensuring alignment with global frameworks and business objectives.
  • Accountable for making decisions.
  • Impacted: OU leadership team, OU sustainability team, functional leads.
• Oversee end-to-end sustainability governance, including KPI tracking, data accuracy, and timely reporting.
  • Accountable for executing actions.
  • Impacted: All areas.
• Develop and manage cross-business partnerships (NGOs, suppliers, coalitions) that advance key sustainability objectives while optimizing cost and shared value.
  • Accountable for making external connections and and manage decision making internally.
  • Impacted: Procurement, external affairs, legal, commercial partners.
• In partnership with PPAG team engage with government, industry associations, and regulatory stakeholders to support policy advocacy and create enabling conditions for sustainability targets.
  • Accountable for providing technical consultation.
  • Impacted: Corporate affairs, legal, public policy teams.
• Support capability-building across the OU by enabling teams with tools, trainings, and best practices to embed sustainability in day-to-day operations.
  • Accountable for executing actions and providing consultation.
  • Impacted: All areas.
• Ensure transparent communication and progress reporting on OU sustainability initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Accountable for executing actions.
  • Impacted: Communications and all stakeholders.
• Act as the primary sustainability liaison between the OU and regional sustainability leadership, facilitating two-way communication and strategic alignment.
  • Accountable for being informed and providing consultation.
  • Impacted: OU GM, and key support functions.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 

• Understanding of Sustainability Frameworks & pep+ Strategy (e.g., GHG Protocol, SBTi, GRI).
• Policy & Advocacy Acumen: Experience in engaging with government stakeholders and influencing public policy to create enabling environments for sustainability goals.
• Cross-Function Collaboration: Strong capability in building and managing multi-stakeholder partnerships that drive shared value, innovation, and measurable impact.
• Strategic Planning & Glidepath Design: Expertise in translating long-term sustainability targets into actionable glidepaths and integrating them into Annual Operating Plans (AOPs).
• Data Governance & Traceability: Knowledge of sustainability data systems and reporting protocols.
• Strategic Influence without Authority, effectively drives alignment and mobilizes cross-functional teams toward sustainability goals, even without direct control.
• Systems Thinking, sees the big picture and connects sustainability goals across value chains, business functions, and external systems.
• Change Leadership, champions transformation by fostering a culture of innovation, resilience, and continuous improvement in sustainability.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Relationship Building, builds trusted relationships across internal teams, external partners, governments, and communities to enable shared value.
• Purpose-Driven Mindset, embeds the company’s purpose and sustainability agenda into everyday decisions, inspiring others to act with intention.

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us:

• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.
• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.
• Development programs according to Leadership skills.
• Specialized training according to the role.
• Learning experiences with internal and external providers.
• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.
• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.
• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.
• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.