Job Description 

Overview

The Senior Director, Global Leadership Development is a key leadership role within PepsiCo’s Global Learning C Development Center of Excellence. This role is responsible for evolving, activating and measuring the global leadership development strategy, driving innovation, relevancy, and impact in learning experiences for all leaders, and ensuring alignment with PepsiCo’s business and talent priorities. The role will lead a team of learning professionals and collaborate across the broader Talent Management COE, People function, People Operations, regional teams and with key stakeholders + sponsors, internally and externally, to deliver a best-in-class, scalable and adaptive approach to leadership development across PepsiCo globally.

This leader will be instrumental in orchestrating a culture of continuous learning, aligning external trends and future-focused needs, and integrating learning into the flow of work. The individual in this role will be a true learning thought leader with deep functional knowledge in Learning and leadership development as well as experience in complex, global organizations. The role plays a critical part in evolving PepsiCo’s approach to learning, and will enable transformation in this space through unifying our efforts, amplifying our impact, evolving and modernizing our operating principles and inspiring others to reimagine how learning comes to life for our associates every day.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Director, Leadership Development, you will have the following key accountabilities:

• Leadership Development Strategy: Define and optimize the global leadership development strategy, creating alignment with organizational frameworks and talent systems + priorities, and balancing current needs and future aspirations.
• Global Learning Strategy: Shape and contribute to PepsiCo’s organizational learning strategy and ecosystem; see beyond short-term needs and influences the long-term direction of learning. 
• Business and Organizational Alignment: Ensures learning is tightly aligned with enterprise business strategies so that it accelerates performance and drives measurable organizational impact. 
• Learning Architecture: Build and sustain world-class leadership development learning objects, aligned to key leadership skills, and known for delivering mpact. Unlock organizational efficiencies by integrating leadership development solutions at scale across PepsiCo globally. 
• Learning Experience Design: Champion innovative, learner-centric approaches including digital learning, experiential learning, social learning and coaching; remove points of friction and inefficiency where possible. 
• Skills-based Approach: Cultivate and champion a skills-based development framework that aligns workforce capabilities with evolving business needs and eadership development trends; determine priorities through on going organizational needs analysis. 
• Learning Technology: Integrate a variety of learning technologies to enhance the learner experience, reimagine work inside the L&D operating model and enable a digital-minded culture + approach to learning. 
• Learning Measurement & Analytics: Articulate learning impact with a data-driven approach to assess outcomes, reach and audience value; provide actionable insights to increase learning performance and inform learning investments; shift key stakeholders to focus on learning outcomes over learning activity.
• Learning Culture: Enable people to learn in ways that drive consistent high performance for individuals and the organization, creating conditions that amplify the impact of learning at all phases of their career. 
• Cultivate Innovation: Inspire possibility by acting as a leader with vision on ground-breaking, emerging and relevant trends centered on learning impact and the ever-evolving role of a leader. 
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing global team of learning professionals, fostering collaboration, innovation, excellence and team member growth. 
• Organizational Leadership: Act as a change catalyst; influence and inspire the team and broader organization; serve as a role model. 
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, TM/People partners, and regional partners to ensure leadership development solutions are aligned, relevant, and impactful; advance organizational understanding of the evolution of leadership by sharing expertise and insights. 
• Governance: Establish governing principles, protocols and processes that enable consistency and scale, unlock synergies, allow for leverage and simplification, and promote continuous improvement and iteration. 
• Vendor & Partner Management: Oversee partnerships with external thought leaders and learning partners in leadership development to bring the best and emerging thinking and practices to PepsiCo.

Compensation & Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $157,200 – $312,000.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 30% of annual salary paid out annually and an additional target payout of 15% of annual salary is paid out over 3 years following the end of the performance period.
• Long term incentive equity may be awarded based on eligibility and performance.
• 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.
• Car allowance.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Organizational Learning or a related field preferred. 
• 15+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development or Talent Management, with global scope and scale. 
• 5+ years leading and advancing a Leadership Development portfolio. 
• Proven track record leading a high-performing learning organization. 
• Deep expertise in adult learning principles, learning/learner analysis, instructional design, and design thinking. 
• Extensive knowledge of professional, leadership, and executive development as well as coaching. 
• Forward thinking, with an ability to set direction and motivate others on what is possible in an ever-evolving landscape. 
• Agile and adaptive; quickly performs with confidence in new, unknown environments; flexible and proactive in fast-paced, ever-evolving environments. 
• Proven track record of designing and implementing enterprise-wide learning strategies and systems that deliver high learner impact and strong business performance. 
• Advanced understanding of learning technologies and analytics; proven ability to leverage to improve the effectiveness of developing leaders. 
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate business needs into learning solutions. 
• Exceptional consulting, collaboration, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, including experience working with senior executives. 
• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to use data to drive decisions and communicate impact; and the ability to coach, mentor and facilitate as needed. 
• Expertise and experience navigating through organizational complexity and ambiguity. 
• Experience managing global teams and working in matrixed, fast-paced environments.

EEO Statement

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