Spl Development Specialist

Overview:
**We are PepsiCo**

PepsiCo is proud to be one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies. Every day, we are dedicated to bringing our mission to create more smiles with every sip and every bite to life. Our products are enjoyed more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Our portfolio — including Lay’s, Doritos, Gatorade, Pepsi and Quaker — consists of many iconic brands that generate more than US $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales, helping to deliver more than US $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive. Through PepsiCo Positive, we are charting a new course to drive positive action for the planet and people. PepsiCo Positive is an end-to-end strategic business transformation with sustainability at the centre of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change.

In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go. We refresh, restore and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and Bokomo range of cereals. PepsiCo SA employs more than 13, 000 people across our three business divisions: Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages.

**Responsibilities**:
**What we’re looking for**

We are looking for a SPL Development Specialist (Temporary) to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located in PepsiCo Park and will be reporting to the SPL Development Lead. The role involves driving and guiding the implementation of an operational standardization and continuous improvement framework within the Supply Planning & Logistics team. This includes defining operational standards and pathways for systemic process and methodology improvements. Additionally, the individual engages, guides, and supports operations in executing improvement plans within this framework. They also manage the capability building agenda to enable the achievement of both short-term and long-term business objectives. Designing and developing resources and tools to support the implementation of the excellence framework and capability building agenda are key responsibilities. Proactively partnering with key stakeholders ensures effective implementation of sector/global capability initiatives and tools, aligning them with specific business needs. Moreover, the role entails implementing key processes based on identified learning and development requirements, in line with Capability Statement of Expectations and functional strategic workforce plans. Maturity assessments defined by the excellence program are conducted to facilitate the delivery of business objectives.
- Accountable for the implementation, tracking & continuous improvement of the operational standardization & excellence model.
- Assess current and future processes and identify opportunities to leverage changes and ensure standardization in process and systems across all operations.
- Collaborate with operational leads within SPL to ensure technical detail accuracy & relevance within the standardization model as well as entrenchment within respective operations as the SPL “way of working”.
- Establish operational criteria and guidelines to improve overall performance with SPL functions with clear progression pathways from basic to excellence levels per operational requirement & functional area.
- Visiting, coaching and auditing teams at BU and site level on success levers and best practice methodologies within the standardization model -enabling local ownership, deployment and management of the model.
- Create an SPL community of practice to share best practices & learnings amongst the various operations in support of accelerated learning and improvement.
- Collaborate with the broader PepsiCo SPL community within other business units to enable key learnings and best practice sharing.
- Customize and launch training programs & learning initiatives to ensure effective ROI at all organizational levels
- Coordinate the deployment of capability platforms, delivery of training and coaching frameworks.
- Manage and coordinate 3rd party vendors in delivering training solutions (consultants, agencies, learning institutions etc) in alignment with Smart spend policies
- Monitoring of competency models to enable accelerated time to competence through formal assessments and on the job coaching.
- Diagnose, pioneer and pilot Learning initiatives to enable best practices in alignment with the 10:70:20 principle of learning.
- Maintain Excellent partnering relationships with key stakeholders (Line Managers, HR, CoE’s, other business units)
- Ensure effective and efficient Project management of Capability Programme implementation and other learning activit