Pepsi Lipton Business & Marketing Analyst, ANZ

at  PepsiCo

Overview:
Pepsi Lipton is a global joint venture organization created between PepsiCo and Unilever. It’s a ~$3.3 billion business and one of the big 3 iced Tea companies in the world. It’s the market leader within North America and Europe, but has a presence in over 50 markets across the globe.
Tea RTD remains a massive growth opportunity globally, still only accounting for >5% of the LRB market and yet offering distinctive and on-trend tasty refreshment experiences. Building on tea’s inherent goodness Pepsi Lipton leads for greater environmental wellbeing via an ambitious net zero goal, enhances mental wellbeing through it brand purpose’s, and improves physical wellbeing though significantly healthier products.
As an autonomous company in its own right, the joint venture has its own board of directors (50% UL and 50% PEP) and global leadership team. With an exciting blend of Unilever and PepsiCo employees it’s variety of countries, portfolios, capabilities, and bottlers makes this a very exciting place to work! We have 5 regional organizations operating across North America; Europe; Latin America; AMESA & APAC where we are constantly breaking new ground with launches into white spaces (portfolio, channel and geographic).
Whilst we have the backing and support of our two parent companies… our autonomous set up, tight focus and speed-boat mindset gives us real agility. Our roles are broad, our responsibilities big and our experiences even bigger! We have high visibility and great exposure – to senior leadership and to talented colleagues all over the world. It means we need to be impactful, smart influencers…and it means that we get involved in the end-to-end business and connected across geographies in a way that’s just not possible at our parent companies.
So, if you want to really challenge yourself, accelerate your skills and experience a whole new way of working… without leaving your parent company, this could be the perfect place to take your career to the next level.
Responsibilities:

As the Business & Marketing Analyst you will support the ANZ Business & Franchise Director, as well as Lipton and T2 Marketing Managers, to drive the Ready to Drink Tea growth agenda. You will:

• Support on strategic planning (short & long term) including strategy refresh, jointly developing strategic long-term and annual business plans with local bottler (Asahi)
• Support delivery of select Marketing Projects, in collaboration with PLI and Asahi marketing teams
• Lead PLI Monthly Business Review (MBR) process incl. sales & forecast tracking, category analysis and present to regional & global teams
• Partner with Asahi on category growth initiatives (i.e. pack and channel strategies), leveraging local and global insights to create meaningful and compelling category, customer and consumer stories
• Support in day-to-day workings with AU & NZ bottler (Asahi and Better Drinks Co) and Pepsi Lipton team

Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in Business / Commerce or equivalent
• Customer &/or category management
• Entry level FMCG sales management with Woolworths or Coles &/or Away from Home channel
• Experience managing marketing projects and timelines
• Strong commercial understanding – experience in delivering sales targets
• Key team player – small ANZ Pepsi Lipton team within broader ANZ PepsiCo beverages & global Pepsi Lipton teams able to work within a small and nimble team that is part of broader ANZ and global team
• Experience translating strategies into plans that can be effectively executed
• Future focused - looks ahead and uses broad range of category and consumer knowledge to reasonably anticipate business opportunities and obstacles
• Holistic business understanding including P&L
• A blend of some of the following experience: category/sales/finance/marketing
• Experience developing effective and sustainable long-term strategy
• Beverages & working with bottler / 3rd parties

Please refer the Job description for details