PepsiCo

Procurement Commodities Manager - Grains

PepsiCo • $110K — $185K *
Plano, TX 75025In-Person
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance; preference for Business, Ag Economics, or Engineering.
  • 7+ years of experience in engineering, R&D, purchasing, or relevant fields.
  • Strong strategic thinking and planning execution skills.
  • In-depth knowledge of ag/commodities supply chain and market fundamentals.
  • Proven leadership and influencing capabilities at all organizational levels.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills for alignment with senior management.
  • Strong analytical, negotiation, and program management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a global grains portfolio with approximately USD 1.9B in spend.
  • Conduct market intelligence and supplier analysis to uncover sourcing opportunities.
  • Develop and deploy global sourcing strategies to enhance productivity and sustainability.
  • Identify specifications harmonization to streamline supply options.
  • Ensure alignment of global demand forecasts with business and supplier priorities.
  • Evaluate alternative suppliers and sourcing opportunities for competitiveness.
  • Lead global tender processes in collaboration with sectors.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off including parental leave, vacation, and sick leave.
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Defined Contribution Retirement Plan with eligibility.
  • Performance-based annual bonus targeting 12% of salary.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Grains Commodities Manager role is part of the Global Grains Procurement team and will play a critical role in developing and executing global category strategy. This role will partner globally with category leads, cross-functional teams, and senior leaders to build business cases, shape category strategies, and influence decisions across sectors. Success requires strong executive-level communication, analytical capability, stakeholder engagement, and development of a deep understanding of global grains sourcing and supplier markets.

Responsibilities

  • Support global grains portfolio management across approximately USD 1.9B in spend, partnering with global, regional, and local teams to deliver a coordinated category agenda.
  • Lead market intelligence, competitor benchmarking, and supplier analysis to identify sourcing strategy opportunities, cost drivers, market risks, and competitive advantage opportunities.
  • Partner with global/sector leads to develop and deploy world-class sourcing strategies that identify opportunities across regions, leverage global scale, improve resilience, and step-change productivity and sustainability delivery.
  • Benchmark specifications and identify harmonization opportunities to reduce complexity and expand supply options.
  • Coordinate global demand visibility with operations and sector teams to ensure capacity plans are aligned with business needs, supplier development priorities, and long-term supply assurance requirements.
  • Identify, assess, and develop alternative suppliers and low-cost country sourcing opportunities to improve competitiveness, diversify supply, and support regional execution within global guardrails.
  • Lead preparation, coordination, execution, negotiation, and award of global tenders in partnership with sectors
  • Partner with R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, and suppliers to develop the grains innovation and intellectual property agenda, including new ingredients, processing capabilities, sustainability solutions, and advantaged supply models.
  • Develop, implement, and manage strategic supplier partnerships to deliver cost reduction, capacity assurance, quality improvement, sustainability, innovation, and risk mitigation.
  • Develop a multi-year productivity pipeline strategy driven by transformational unlocks to reduce costs, leverage of global insights and scale, and robust negotiations.
  • Partner with sector leads to deliver and exceed AOP commitments
  • Develop and deploy commercial, supplier, and market risk management capabilities, including hedging where applicable, to protect grains supply continuity, financial performance, and business resilience.
  • Influence global peers, regional stakeholders, and senior leaders to embrace coordinated grains strategies, complex negotiations, scaled supplier approaches, and new value-added processes across a matrixed organization.

Compensation and Benefits:
  • The expected compensation range for this position is between $110,700 - $185,250.
  • 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 12% 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

Education/Certification:

  • BS in Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance. Preferred degree with focus in Business, Ag Economics, or Engineering.


Work Experience:

  • 7+ years of work experience in engineering, research & development, purchasing, or other relevant experience


Skills & Capabilities:

  • Strategic thinking: Ability to translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed
  • Functional expertise: Very good knowledge of the ag/commodities supply chain and markets (supplier & competitor landscape, market fundamentals, agricultural forces, etc.)
  • Excellent leader, demonstrating ability to influence up and across the organization
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to clearly communicate vision and quickly gain alignment with senior management, both internally and externally
  • Ability to support strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management and total cost of ownership
  • Excellent skills in analytics, financials, program management, negotiation, influencing, and collaboration
  • Commercially savvy with ability to develop and execute complex and impactful global initiatives.
  • Ability to work within a complex matrix organization
  • Proven ability to develop and influence recommendations, and drive decisions quickly, especially in situations without direct authority
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment


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