PepsiCo

Associate Manager, Market Engagement & Community Development

PepsiCo$93K — $156K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in media strategy, media planning, or marketing operations, ideally within a global or matrixed organization.
  • A strong media background with a broad understanding of the wider landscape.
  • Familiarity with above market capabilities within OPM.
  • High-level communicator capable of adapting styles to diverse audiences and seniority levels.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to simplify complex concepts.
  • Confident facilitator and community leader with strong stakeholder management abilities.
  • Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proactive, solution-oriented, and passionate about continuous improvement and innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with media teams in priority global markets to drive media excellence.
  • Build productive relationships with local market media leads, clarifying objectives and growth initiatives.
  • Assess individual market maturity and identify opportunities for growth.
  • Coordinate quarterly Market Steercos between local CMO, OPM leadership, and local media leads.
  • Collaborate with above-market capability teams to integrate relevant expertise into local markets.
  • Lead communication and knowledge sharing through community-building initiatives within the OPM function.
  • Design and facilitate capability roll-out sessions and platforms for knowledge dissemination.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, including parental leave, vacation, and sick leave.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available to support personal and professional needs.
  • Defined Contribution Retirement Plan to support long-term financial health.
  • Opportunities for performance-based bonuses, targeting a 10% annual payout.
Full Job Description
Overview

In this role, you will support the market engagement lead in shaping and operationalizing media excellence, working with capability leads to codify best-in-class standards across planning, activation, and measurement. You will partner closely with markets to assess their current maturity, understand their readiness to accelerate, and co-develop tailored action plans that unlock growth through media.

Sitting at the intersection of strategy, capability building, and market engagement, you will play a key role in ensuring our global frameworks translate into real-world impact. You will also act as a connector across the organization, feeding market needs back into the COE to ensure our capability agenda is grounded in what truly drives value.

Alongside this, you will support efforts to build a thriving global media community, designing and delivering engaging forums that showcase best-in-class work, enable knowledge sharing, and support the rollout of critical capabilities across markets.

This is a high-visibility role, ideal for someone looking to build global exposure, develop a strong network across markets and functions, and learn from some of the best media and marketing leaders in the industry, all while helping shape the future of how PepsiCo uses media as a growth lever.

Responsibilities

Market Engagement & Partnership:

  • Close partnership with our media teams in priority markets across the globe
  • Establishing a strong, productive and mutually beneficial working relationship with our market media teams, including leads.
  • Immersion into individual markets to define their relative level of maturity and areas of opportunity
  • Contracting with markets to establish objectives, clarifying the necessary initiatives and actions that are required to drive growth. Gaining commitment from local marketing alongside OPM as a function to achieve those objectives
  • Coordination and curation of quarterly Market Steercos, taking place between local CMO, OPM leadership and local media leads
  • Ongoing close partnership with local marketing and media leads to ensure that actions are being taken and outcomes are achieved to drive growth.


Above Market Capability Engagement & Partnership:

  • Close partnership with above-market capability teams including but not limited to Creators, Measurement, Modern Connections, Partnerships, AI Enablement, Agency Transformation and Data Provisioning.
  • Working with teams further beyond to bring relevant capabilities to our markets including S&T and Commercial Teams
  • Bringing requirements forward from markets to all capability leads through structured briefing process and monthly marketing intelligence reporting


OPM Community Development:

  • Nurturing a sense of community amongst members of the media function.
  • Building processes, rituals and platforms to enable connectivity, sharing and community building for our diverse global One PEP Media community
  • Facilitating knowledge dissemination to the OPM community through the design and curation of capability roll-out sessions, platforms and rituals.
  • Building regular platforms for communication with all levels of seniority.

Compensation and Benefits:
  • The expected compensation range for this position is between $93,500 - $156,450.
  • 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 10% of annual salary paid out annually.
  • 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.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in media strategy, media planning, or marketing operations, ideally within a global or matrixed organization.
  • A strong media background with a broad understanding of the wider landscape ideal
  • Familiarity with above market capabilities within OPM
  • A high-level communicator with an ability to adjust styles to people with varying levels of media knowledge, cultural backgrounds and levels of seniority.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of simplifying complex concepts for diverse audiences.
  • Confident facilitator and community leader with strong stakeholder management abilities.
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proactive, solution-oriented, and passionate about continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Experience working across distributed teams and time zones
  • This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States


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About PepsiCo

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309,000 employees
Market Cap
$250.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$7.1 billion
Founded
1965
5 Year Trend
+4.8%
Revenue
$70.3 billion
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