PepsiCo is Looking for Process Excellence Assoc Manager Full Time

Global Business Services (GBS) organization has been established to provide efficient and effective services to PepsiCo businesses globally, for all sectors and enable ‘acceleration’ for PepsiCo to drive standardization with a view towards end to end automation, to remain profitable and achieve Business Outcomes. To enable this purpose, GBS Process Excellence will build capabilities for a ‘Digital First’ mindset by studying the ‘Art of the Possible’, bringing in best practices from across Industries and Functions, re-designing processes, partnering with  IT, Function leads, subject matter experts, Sector stakeholders, and work closely with te Process Excellence teams and the Automation Factory to co-create the ‘Process Transformation Roadmaps’ by leveraging various technology interventions across the spectrum of Automation namely low code/ no code/ desktop solutions, Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence enabled solutions like Machine Learning, Optical Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing, etc with a view to improve Business Outcomes and to deliver value to the Organization and to end Customers.

This role will be responsible to work closely with Hubs, Functions and Sectors to deliver Low Code Automations. In addition, the role will work closely with external partners for Low Code Automation, the CTO (IAI team), GBS CIO team and with the Digital Factory to ensure the Low Code Automations are aligned with the Organization strategy.

This role will also be responsible to bring in best practices by consulting internal and external partners for Low Code and No Code Automations. The role will be responsible to ensure adoption of the prescribed standards by the GBS Controls, Enterprise Application and CTO team. The role will also develop and roll-out the Low Code No Code Automation  methodology across GBS and be responsible to maintain the Knowledge Base. The role will partner closely with IT and drive adoption of the Citizen Developer Program for GBS.

This role will own ongoing governance, communication and best practices for Low Code No Code Automation pipeline and planned Value Delivery

Responsibilities

General leadership

• Collaborate with the Digital Factory, Functions, Sectors, Enabling and Ecosystem teams to help build re-useable, repeatable assets and artefacts that can be used across locations and capabilities/ service lines
• Ability to guide Citizen Developers, Process Excellence Champions to identify Automation opportunities
• Bring in external thinking with best practices from across industries for Low Code No Code Automation

GBS Process Excellence Pillar

• Knowledge and experience of Automation solutions using industry leading technology, prescribed tools and techniques Develop scalable Low Code Automation solutions on demand from Functions/ Sectors (out of scope for Digital Factory)
• Establish methodology, process and controls to deliver and scale Low Code No Code automation
• Evaluate alternative automation solutions across languages like R, SQL, .Net, Python; platforms (MS PowerApps, Alteryx, MS Azure, AWS, etc.), small and medium sized unattended BOTs using UiPath; Low code (StudioX, PowerAutomate)
• Identify and evaluate potential risks in process automations and determine appropriate corrective action

Qualifications

• Ability to translate business needs to the most appropriate technical solution which could be bespoke or bought off the shelf, as the case may be. Good understanding of RPA principles and NL/ML techniques, thereby providing the best automation solution to the business
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels
• Graduate in Science/Engineering/Technology and preferably Post Graduate in Business Management
• Lean Six Sigma certified, preferrably Green Belt with 12-14 years of experience, at least 5-7 years in leading Low Code Automation
• Experienced in Process assessment for Automation, delivery of projects and managing a team of developers
• Experience including certification in UiPath; fluent across languages like R, SQL, .Net, Python; leveraging platforms (MS PowerApps, Alteryx, MS Azure, AWS, etc.), Preferably experienced in PowerAutomate and Celonis as well
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcome
• Able to work autonomously in a highly-matrixed organization, instil the highest level of bias for action, handling competing priorities and connecting the dots
•  Preferably trained/ certified in DevSecOps/ Agile
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