Sr. Account Manager

Overview

CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT

At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day. At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action.

Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve. Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

Responsibilities

The Opportunity

This role is primarily responsible for leading, coaching, and developing the Functional Foods Account Team while building a strong, collaborative partnership with the Creative team to ensure clear briefs, smooth workflow, and high-quality delivery. This role also requires a self-starter with strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will also have outstanding organizational abilities and a flair for creating powerful, lead-generating content. In addition, this role will be responsible for managing senior stakeholders across the business, reporting A&M productivity, improve processes, and help to expand our creative service catalogue for our Brand Marketing Teams. It must also be focused on leveraging AI tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT, as well as extracting relevant inputs and insights through data analysis, to strengthen briefs, improve effectiveness, and support better decision-making.

Your Impact

As Sr. Account Manager your scope would consist of …

• Translate the brand teams brief to the creative / design team.

• Lead an in-house creative Account team to deliver multiple creative versioning of assets for Frito-Lay North America Team.

• Build trust and confidence with the brand marketing teams to drive efficiencies by bringing new projects to the content in-house team.

• You have previous experience on agencies but also on a brand management position – you need to know about how our business works so you can communicate clearly the objectives to your team.

• Manage senior stake holders effectively.

• People management skills – great leaders build great teams!

• Demonstrates conflict resolution and problem solving skills

• Works with team to anticipate and address project concerns

• Works enthusiastically and cooperatively within creative team and with other departments throughout the organization

• Data driven, we need to see value trough powerful insights & input.

• Open and flexible to use AI through internal platforms.

Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of +8 years in a similar role (brand manager, marketing, content marketing, communications) for a CPG company or worldwide Agency.

• Strong preference for candidates with both, agency and client background.

• Demonstrated understanding of relationships between agencies, brands, platforms, and media agencies.

• Experience working with designers and agencies.

• Solid account management, process, and organizational skills with a heightened attention to detail.

• Previous experience managing direct reports.

• Language proficiency both in English and Spanish is a must for this role (FLUENT ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE COMPULSORY).

• Strong track record of demonstrating ability to oversee a range of brands and projects with detail-oriented lens.

• Strong consumer empathy & customer-centricity.

• Demonstrated ability to place the consumer at the heart of everything while leading creative / design teams and managing agency product.

• Presentation skills and proven ability to influence creative decision making.

• Knowledge of PowerPoint, Teams, Sharepoint, Copilot, ChatGPT and Project Management Tools (Monday.com, Frame.io, Slack and others)

• Leadership: Orchestrator, Influencer, non-hierarchical: Strong track record of developing and inspiring teams of marketing / creative professionals. Proven collaboration abilities, strategic thinking and leadership skills.

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us:

• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.

• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.

• Development programs according to Leadership skills.

• Specialized training according to the role.

• Learning experiences with internal and external providers.

• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.

• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.

• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.

• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.