Spl Development Specialist X2

**Responsibilities** - 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 activities on a need’s basis. - Develop tools to ensure the consistent tracking, monitoring and assessing of the measures of success for all Capability programmes. - Compile and present learning and development data on a regular basis to all key stakeholders and establish communication platforms and forums to ensure key stakeholder awareness of ongoing progress of Capability initiatives and programmes. - Participate in the design, implementation and follow up of projects that aim to capture new business improvement opportunities. - Ensure strong partnership with the Performance Excellence function to develop, implement and assess the effectiveness of capability programmes to support LEAN initiatives. **Qualifications** - Relevant Tertiary Qualification - Minimum 4-7 years FMCG experience - Experience in developing; entrenching & evolving excellence frameworks with a longer-term view to improvement - Experience of successfully managing projects with multiple stakeholders from varying functions - Strong interpersonal skills, self-awareness and diplomacy, being able to adapt approach and gain buy-in, unifying a group of strong and varying personalities towards a common goal, possess the capability to interact with all levels across the organization - Presentation and strong communication skills - Coaching and enabling skills - Constructive feedback skills; providing feedback in a clear, constructive and professional manner - Analytical and well organized - Customer centric with a High business orientation - Self-starter and self-motivator, ability to shape set and manage capability agenda - Ability to multi-task and balance a complex and very broad agenda - Ability to operate effectively in a fast moving and changing environment - Very strong attention to detail, with a bias for accuracy and quality - Ability to focus and get things done fast - High levels of integrity - Works well in teams **“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act"