Associate Change Manager - S&T Digital Procurement

As a Change Management Associate Manager at PepsiCo's Strategy & Transformation organization, your role will be crucial in supporting large and complex transformational projects. You will be responsible for applying change tools and techniques to assess, diagnose, design, support, deliver, and execute custom solutions needed for successful project delivery. Working closely with key stakeholders, you will focus on developing, managing, and executing transformational activities. Your primary responsibility will be to support PepsiCo's S&T Digital Procurement team in simplifying and streamlining procurement processes. This will involve enabling strategy, transforming culture, and driving adoption of new processes and tools. Reporting to the S&T Sr. Change Manager for Digital Procurement, you will collaborate with global and sector procurement teams and cross-functional partners to ensure a smooth change journey. In this role, you will provide change management support for the development, delivery, and execution of change deliverables. This includes impact assessments, readiness assessments, and detailed change approaches. Your expertise will be invaluable in integrating change management activities across sectors and functions, providing guidance based on past experiences, and offering insights on cultural impacts and process implications. Additionally, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and executing change strategies, plans, tools, and deliverables within the PEP change planning framework. Your responsibilities will include providing hands-on support for stakeholders, offering CM training to functional teams, and ensuring successful support and adoption of projects through the 5 As framework (Awareness, Acknowledgement, Acceptance, Activation, Adoption). To qualify for this role, you should have a Bachelor's Degree in HR, Organizational Development, Communications, or a related field, along with 7-9 years of total work experience. A minimum of 5 years of in-depth experience in Change Management, Large-scale global Transformations, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Agile System Implementation is required. Proficiency in MS Office applications is essential. Desired characteristics include Change Management Professional (CCMP) or Prosci Change Practitioner certification, attention to detail, collaboration skills, deep change management expertise in a corporate environment, project management experience, and familiarity with organization design, process re-design, and learning & development principles. Strong problem-solving, facilitation, and decision-making skills, along with flexibility, eagerness to learn, resilience, attention to detail, and excellent organization skills are also important for success in this role.,