Director, Global L&D, Organizational Capabilities

Overview

The Director, Global Functional Development, Organizational Capabilities is based out of any hub location (preference is Purchase, Plano or Chicago).

Responsibilities

• Functional Learning Strategy: Develop and refine the learning strategy for key organizational capabilities at PepsiCo, creating alignment with organizational frameworks + priorities, and balancing current needs and future aspirations.

• Global Learning Strategy: Contribute to and lead aspects of PepsiCo’s organizational learning strategy and ecosystem; see beyond short-term needs and influences the long-term direction of learning.

• Business and Organizational Alignment: Ensure learning is tightly aligned with enterprise business strategies so that it accelerates performance and drives measurable organizational impact.

• Learning Architecture: Build and sustain world-class functional development learning objects, aligned to key skills that are required across the organization, & known for delivering impact. Unlock organizational efficiencies by delivering learning at scale across functions when the needs and skills are aligned.

• Learning Experience Design: Champion innovative, learner-centric approaches including digital learning, experiential learning, social learning and coaching; remove points of friction and inefficiency where possible.

• Skills-based Approach: Cultivate and champion a skills-based development framework that aligns workforce capabilities with evolving business needs; determine priorities through on-going organizational needs analysis.

• Learning Technology: Integrate a variety of learning technologies to enhance the learner experience, reimagine work inside the L&D operating model and enable a digital-minded culture + approach to learning.

• Learning Measurement & Analytics: Articulate learning impact with a data-driven approach to assess outcomes, reach and audience value; provide actionable insights to increase learning performance and inform learning investments; shift key stakeholders to focus on learning outcomes over learning activity.

• Learning Culture: Enable people to learn in ways that drive consistent high performance for individuals and the organization, creating conditions that amplify the impact of learning at all phases of their career.

• Cultivate Innovation: Inspire possibility by acting as a leader with vision on ground-breaking, emerging and relevant trends.

• Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing global team of learning professionals, fostering collaboration, innovation, excellence and team member growth.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, TM/People partners, and regional partners to ensure functional development solutions are aligned, relevant, and impactful and to advance the understanding of high-performance learning with functional stakeholders.

• Governance: Drive governing principles, protocols and processes that enable consistency and scale, unlock synergies, allow for leverage and simplification, and promote continuous improvement and iteration.

• Vendor & Partner Management: Oversee partnerships with external learning partners to bring the best and emerging thinking and practices to PepsiCo.

Qualifications

• Degree in Organizational Learning or a related field preferred.

• 12+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development or Talent Management, with global scope and scale.

• Proven track record leading a high-performing learning organization.

• Deep expertise in adult learning principles, learning/learner analysis, instructional design, and design thinking.

• Forward thinking, with an ability to set direction and motivate others on what is possible in an ever-evolving landscape.

• Agile and adaptive; flexible and proactive in fast-paced, ever-evolving environments.

• Proven track record of designing and implementing enterprise-wide learning strategies and systems that deliver high learner impact and strong business performance.

• Excellent business acumen and ability to translate business needs into learning solutions.

• Exceptional consulting, collaboration, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, including experience working with senior executives.

• Strong understanding of learning technologies and analytics; proven ability to leverage to improve the effectiveness of learning.

• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to use data to drive decisions and communicate impact; and the ability to coach, mentor and facilitate as needed.

• Experience navigating through organizational complexity and ambiguity.

• Experience managing global teams and working in matrixed, fast-paced environments.