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UK&I BU Integrated Business Planning Lead, Reading
Client: PepsiCo
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: a6602bddbdb1
Job Views: 25
Posted: 25.08.2025
Expiry Date: 09.10.2025
Job Description:
Overview
At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025, we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.
Why Join Us?
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.
A Space to be You
We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.
Equal Opportunities
We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. Our product portfolio features many iconic brands with over $1 billion in estimated annual retail sales.
The IBP Lead plays a pivotal role in designing, executing, and improving the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process across the UK&I BU, covering Snacks and Grains categories. This role ensures the delivery of robust demand and supply plans over a 4-24 month horizon, aligned with strategic goals and sector priorities.
By driving cross-functional collaboration between Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain teams, the IBP Lead facilitates data-driven decision-making to identify and close financial, operational, and capability gaps. The role involves aligning leadership through monthly Management Business Reviews (MBR) to ensure plans reflect business needs, optimize resource allocation, and maximize value creation.
A key responsibility is fostering a culture of planning excellence by embedding IBP processes into daily operations and enabling change management. This includes leveraging advanced analytics, scenario planning, and risk management to enhance forecast accuracy and efficiency.
In partnership with the sector IBP Centre of Excellence, the IBP Lead supports capability-building initiatives, process optimization, and system automation, driving continuous improvement and governance. Acting as a change agent, the role influences senior stakeholders and aligns teams to deliver sustainable, profitable growth, ensuring the IBP process adds measurable value across the business.
Responsibilities
* Lead the IBP Process Execution and Governance: Own and facilitate the end-to-end IBP process, ensuring adherence to global standards and alignment with BU strategic goals. Drive the successful execution of IBP cycles, including PMR, DMR, SMR, IR, and MBR, ensuring timely preparation, facilitation, and follow-up on decisions. Champion governance of IBP processes, ensuring outputs such as volume forecasts, risk and opportunity analysis, and gap closure plans are robust, actionable, and aligned across functions.
* Deliver Robust Demand and Supply Plans: Lead the creation of accurate demand and supply plans over 4-24 months, incorporating key assumptions, risks, and opportunities. Partner with Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to assess drivers, gaps, and scenarios, providing actionable recommendations. Ensure forecast quality and accuracy by aligning to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Market Business Review (MBR) decisions.
* Facilitate Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage stakeholders across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to develop consensus-driven plans. Facilitate leadership discussions during MBRs to align on decisions, escalate issues, and resolve dilemmas impacting performance. Promote transparent communication of IBP outputs and decisions.
* Drive Business Value Creation: Influence data-driven decision-making using analytics, scenario planning, and risk management. Support leadership alignment on trade-offs, enabling actions that drive profitability, efficiency, and growth. Monitor emerging risks and opportunities for proactive planning.
* Lead Capability Building and Continuous Improvement: Partner with the IBP Centre of Excellence to define and deliver capability-building initiatives. Implement process automation, system improvements, and governance tools. Develop training programs to enhance organizational IBP understanding.
* Embed a Culture of IBP Excellence: Act as a change agent to foster IBP culture, promoting alignment, accountability, and collaboration. Drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps and opportunities. Advocate for adoption of new tools and ways of working.
* Ensure Alignment with Sector and Global Priorities: Align BU leadership with sector IBP priorities and ensure seamless submission of deliverables. Collaborate with global and sector teams to adopt best practices and support shared objectives. Serve as a liaison to resolve escalations and balance BU priorities with sector expectations.
* Monitor Performance and Drive Accountability: Establish and monitor KPIs such as forecast accuracy, gap closure, and value creation. Conduct performance reviews and root cause analyses to improve IBP processes. Ensure cross-functional teams focus on critical issues and implement actions to meet goals.
* Support Leadership Alignment and Decision-Making: Ensure forecasts, financial targets, and operational plans are aligned with leadership. Provide insights and recommendations during MBRs to support sound decisions. Influence senior stakeholders to prioritize actions for business outcomes.
Qualifications
* IBP Expertise: Understanding of IBP, S&OP, demand planning; experience with system implementation, business readiness, and deployment. Knowledge of end-to-end operations including Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance. Proven success in implementing IBP frameworks with measurable outcomes.
* Strategic and Analytical Thinking: Ability to decompose complex challenges, use advanced analytics, scenario planning, and risk management to support decision-making. Strong problem-solving skills.
* Business Acumen and Financial Literacy: Understanding of business drivers, P&L management, and value creation. Ability to align volume and financial plans with long-term goals.
* Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influencing: Stakeholder management skills, ability to build consensus, lead change, and influence without authority.
* Leadership and People Development: Experience leading and developing high-performing teams, coaching talent, fostering accountability and continuous improvement.
* Process Optimization and Continuous Improvement: Experience with automation, systems integration, governance, and driving process improvements. Familiarity with digital tools and next-gen technologies.
* Communication and Change Management: Strong communication skills, ability to manage ambiguity, and drive cultural change through structured strategies.
* Results-Oriented and Adaptable: Proven ability to deliver in complex environments, resilient, and able to prioritize strategically.
* Global and Sectoral Perspective: Experience working with global/regional teams, adapting best practices to local contexts.
* Differentiating Competencies: Strategic leadership, results focus, change management, collaboration, analytical thinking, business acumen, talent development, process optimization.
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