SPL Development Specialist - Pepsico Park at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

• 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

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification
• 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
• 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