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.
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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 complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
The IBP Lead plays a pivotal role in designing, executing, and continuously 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 the BU’s 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 focuses on aligning leadership through monthly Management Business Reviews (MBR) to ensure plans reflect business needs, optimize resource allocation, and maximize value creation.
A critical responsibility is fostering a culture of planning excellence by embedding IBP processes into day-to-day 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
1. Own and facilitate the end-to-end Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, ensuring adherence to global standards and alignment with BU strategic goals.
2. Drive the successful execution of key IBP cycles, including PMR, DMR, SMR, IR, and MBR, ensuring timely preparation, facilitation, and follow-up on decisions.
3. Champion the 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. (Decision-Making & Execution)
Deliver Robust Demand and Supply Plans
4. Lead the creation of accurate and dynamic demand and supply plans over a 4-24 month horizon, incorporating key business assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
5. Partner with Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to assess drivers, gaps, and scenarios, providing actionable recommendations to close financial and operational gaps.
6. Ensure forecast quality and accuracy by aligning volume forecasts to Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Market Business Review (MBR) decisions. (Decision-Making & Execution)
Facilitate Cross-Functional Collaboration
7. Engage and align key stakeholders across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to develop consensus-driven plans and strategies.
8. Facilitate leadership discussions during MBRs to align on decisions, escalate issues, and resolve dilemmas impacting business performance.
9. Promote transparent and effective communication of IBP outputs and decisions across all levels of the organization. (Consultation & Execution)
Drive Business Value Creation
10. Influence data-driven decision-making by leveraging advanced analytics, scenario planning, and risk management.
11. Support the alignment of leadership to critical trade-offs, enabling timely execution of actions that drive profitability, efficiency, and growth.
12. Monitor and identify emerging risks, opportunities, and trends to support proactive contingency planning and value optimization. (Decision-Making)
Lead Capability Building and Continuous Improvement
13. Partner with the sector IBP Centre of Excellence (CoE) to assess, define, and deliver capability-building initiatives, enabling teams to enhance IBP maturity.
14. Implement process optimization, system automation, and governance tools to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scalability across IBP processes.
15. Develop and deploy training programs to enhance organizational capability and understanding of IBP principles. (Execution & Consultation)
Embed a Culture of IBP Excellence
16. Act as a change agent to elevate IBP culture, fostering alignment, accountability, and collaboration across teams and leadership.
17. Champion the mindset of continuous improvement by identifying process gaps, root causes, and opportunities for optimization.
18. Drive the adoption of next-generation tools, systems, and ways of working to streamline IBP processes and deliver measurable results. (Execution & Consultation)
Ensure Alignment with Sector and Global Priorities
19. Align BU leadership with sector IBP priorities and ensure seamless submission of deliverables, including DMR, MBR, and risk/opportunity analysis.
20. Collaborate with global and sector IBP teams to adopt best practices, align strategies, and support the delivery of shared objectives.
21. Serve as the critical liaison for resolving escalations and balancing BU priorities with sector expectations. (Consultation)
Monitor Performance and Drive Accountability
22. Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure IBP process effectiveness, including forecast accuracy, gap closure, and value creation.
23. Conduct regular performance reviews and root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement in IBP processes and outcomes.
24. Align cross-functional teams to focus on the most critical performance issues and ensure actions are implemented to meet strategic goals. (Decision-Making & Execution)
Support Leadership Alignment and Decision-Making
25. Ensure alignment of volume forecasts, financial targets, and operational plans with leadership stakeholders across Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance.
26. Provide structured, high-quality insights and recommendations to BU leadership during MBRs to enable sound decision-making.
27. Influence senior stakeholders to prioritize and execute critical actions that drive business outcomes and sustainable growth. (Consultation & Execution)
Qualifications
1. Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Expertise
28. Understanding IBP, IS&OP, and demand planning processes.
29. Experienced in planning system implementation, business readiness and deployment.
30. Strong understanding of end-to-end operations, including Commercial, Supply Chain, and Financial Planning.
31. Experience in implementing IBP frameworks that deliver measurable business outcomes, including forecast accuracy and financial gap closure.
32. Experienced in Inventory management, optimisation and streamling via planning systems and IS&OP process.
2. Strategic and Analytical Thinking
33. Highly inquisitive with the ability to decompose complex business challenges and identify actionable insights.
34. Demonstrated advanced analytics, scenario planning, and risk management expertise to support strategic decision-making.
35. Strong problem-solving skills to identify root causes and drive impactful solutions that deliver business value.
3. Business Acumen and Financial Literacy
36. High-level understanding of business drivers, P&L management, and value creation across Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain functions.
37. Ability to align volume and financial plans to long-term business objectives, balancing trade-offs to optimise profitability and efficiency.
4. Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influencing
38. Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align diverse teams across functions and geographies.
39. Strong influencing and facilitation skills to gain consensus, resolve conflicts, and drive alignment without direct authority.
40. Proven experience in leading change management initiatives and embedding new ways of working.
5. Leadership and People Development
41. Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, empowerment, and continuous improvement.
42. Capable of coaching and mentoring talent to build capability, enhance team performance, and drive business impact.
43. Ability to inspire, energize, and align cross-functional teams to deliver strategic objectives.
6. Process Optimization and Continuous Improvement
44. Experience in process automation, systems integration, and governance improvements to enhance efficiency and scalability.
45. Proven success in driving continuous improvement initiatives that streamline planning processes and deliver tangible outcomes.
46. Ability to leverage digital tools, next-generation technologies, and data-driven solutions to optimize IBP performance.
47. Experience in designing or deploying planning systems
7. Communication and Change Management
48. Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, actionable plans for all levels of the organization.
49. Comfortable managing ambiguity and providing clear direction in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
50. Effective in driving a cultural shift to embed IBP excellence through structured change management and engagement strategies.
8. Results-Oriented and Adaptable
51. Demonstrated ability to deliver results in complex, fluid, and matrixed environments.
52. Resilient, adaptable, and focused on achieving outcomes despite challenges or barriers.
53. Ability to prioritize and balance short-term needs with long-term strategic goals.
9. Global and Sectoral Perspective
54. Experience collaborating with global and regional teams to align BU strategies with sector and organizational priorities.
55. Ability to lift and shift best practices while adapting them to local market needs and business dynamics.
Differentiating Competencies Required
56. Strategic Leadership: Aligns teams to long-term goals while driving impactful decisions.
57. Results Orientation: Focuses on achieving targets, closing gaps, and delivering measurable outcomes.
58. Change Management: Embeds new processes, fostering adoption through resilience and leadership.
59. Collaboration and Influencing: Builds trust, aligns stakeholders, and drives consensus without direct authority.
60. Analytical Thinking: Uses data-driven insights and scenario planning to enable proactive decision-making.
61. Commercial and Financial Acumen: Balances trade-offs to optimize profitability and resources.
62. Building Talent: Develops teams, driving capability and a culture of high performance.
63. Process Optimization: Enhances efficiency, governance, and scalability through automation.