Manager, Data Product Management & Ops Project Manager

at  PepsiCo

Overview:
PepsiCo operates in an environment undergoing immense and rapid change. Big-data and digital technologies are driving business transformation that is unlocking new capabilities and business innovations. The key to winning is being able to leverage enterprise data foundations built on PepsiCo’s global business scale to enable business insights, advanced analytics, and new product development. PepsiCo’s Data Product Management team is tasked with the responsibility of developing quality data collection processes, maintaining the integrity of our data foundations, and enabling business leaders and data scientists across the company to have rapid access to the data they need for decision-making and innovation.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop and manage all aspects of the project engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues
• Strong interpersonal skills resulting in exceptional rapport with people. Proven success in initiating, promoting, and maintaining strong interpersonal relations, proactively drives impact and engagement while bringing others along
• Collaborate with internal clients to identify and define project requirements, scope, and objectives
• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, and issues, being communicating across leadership
• Leverage AzureDevOps (ADO), KPIs and dashboard to document, track and report on progress, risk, impediments and accomplishments
• Frequent communication with senior leadership to shape and deliver on the product roadmap, and requires to nimbly switch between strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve technical, and business goals
• Directly manage technical professionals in the execution of projects
• Coaches the project team members in self-management and cross-functionality, removes barriers between stakeholders and project teams
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Ability to align multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced environment

SKILLS, ABILITIES, KNOWLEDGE:

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with senior level management.
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring data teams.
• 8+ years of strong technical program management experience in agile environment
• Scrum master certification or PMI-ACP certification a must
• Strong change manager. Comfortable with change, especially that which arises through company growth. Able to lead a team effectively through times of change.
• Adept at learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements into data and technical requirements.
• High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment.
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs.
• Foster a team culture of accountability, communication, and self-management.
• Proactively drives impact and engagement while bringing others along.
• Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals
• Ability to guide others without direct authority in a matrixed environment.

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