The purpose of this role is to build, roll-out & embed best in class project management on marketing innovations, promotions, activations, value engineering and renovation through stage gate, systems, data standards, & KPIs consistent with Category & EER (PepsiCo East Europe organization) best practices & principles.

• Keep x-functional team on track against key milestones, particularly in between Gates, to ensure that programs remain on target for planned launch dates
• Providing world-class Commercial project management expertise, delivering solutions that enable rapid speed-to-market and flawless execution
• Driving innovation synergies and minimizing duplication and low value-add activities
• Challenge project plans, financials and assumptions in order to optimize P&L and timelines and minimize project risk
• Develop creative solutions with input from Commercialization Manager and x-functional team

• Experience in regulatory compliance
• Familiarity with the food legislation of EU, Turkey and WB
• Very well organized
• Detail oriented and punctual
• IT systems knowledge at the super user level (preferably Product Vision, PDMS or similar)
• Flexible attitude to work, highly results orientated
• Fluency in written and verbal English
• Proactive, self-starter, Team player
• University degree (Food Technology/Science, Chemistry, Biology, Nutrition, )
• Excellent communication skills (including ability to interpret complex subject matter and summarize requirements, communicate with people of all levels)
• Ability to integrate into and influence different levels of the organization
• Ability to manage regulatory issues and provide insight to the business

• Identify the growth pillars to be deployed to accelerate channel growth
• Lead Traditional Trade Segmentation updates to drive incremental revenue at POS based on shopper & POS potential and effective trade investment
• Lead multi functional teams (marketing, supply chain, finance, r&d, insights) for tailored focus across different development zones – East / West etc.. – especially identify and capture mix management and regional opportunities for beverages
• Lead ACP satisfy demand agenda for TT Channel to ensure sales and marketing initiatives are inline with growth targets
• Set up governance tools to ensure excellent execution: responsible for corrective actions on channel/customer strategy
• Set up tracking&reporting tools to ensure business priorities / initiatives are in line with plans.
• Lead/active guidance on key projects such as building competitive programs
• Design and install a holistic ACP scorecard and on-going tracking and review process with clearly defined owners and timing to capture opportunities
• Analyze internal and external data and supply input for channel growth projects
• Manage Cooler Program and increase PepsiCo footprint and volume for target stores
• Lead KazandiRio İş portal to support retailer engagement

• Ensuring the completion of volume in weekly production plan
• Ensuring efficient production runs on all process and packaging lines
• Ensuring the effective management of the front line employees in her/his shift
• Ensuring food safety on all production lines and ensure activities which are food safety and the rules of the prerequisite, PepsiCo company requirements and national/international regulations in the factory
• Ensuring people safety on all production lines
• Tracking the Daily plan adherence and support the service to sales
• Managing Lean implementation in his/her shift
• Track Performance of the lines
• Supporting R&D for new product trials and launches
• Gate keeping of IPS (Process Standards) and Weak Link standards
• Leading Lean, productivity and recon savings program
• Meeting the requirements Management system with in the plant such as Quality, Food Safety, GEHSMS and 14001 Environmental Management System in his/her area of responsible
• Apply the personal performance system for the all front line employees in his/her shift
• Perform the monthly team meetings and inform his/her teams with the team scores and take necessary actions.
• Leading the QCDM meetings (gap to standards) with his/her teams for all production lines
• Provide support to her/his staff to attend necessary trainings

• Responsible from Beverage Traditional Trade Demand Planning process via Prolink VMI . Managing demand forecast based on Sell-out for VMI customers (Distributors DC) in short horizon (up to 6 weeks)
• Responsible for accurate and timely demand forecast for his/her portfolio, including responsibility for the end-to-end forecasting process in Prolink (JDA)
• Evolving and maintaining documentation and standard operating procedures for DP processes and
• Demand Consensus which builds to a one-number plan and the integration of the DP process into the entire organization
• Responsible for developing and ensuring the accuracy of the PepsiCo Beverage Turkey short term demand, including delivery of the overall forecast accuracy,
• Complete “root cause” analysis to ensure ongoing Demand Planning improvements, including the review and analyses of statistical data, graphs and charts,
• Follow-up performance indicators to meet forecast accuracy and customer service objectives
• Responsible for the appropriate tracking, monitoring and cleansing of forecast, including reporting at various levels of detail, analyse and cleanse, if required; all data pertinent to creating the sales forecast (historical sales, market trends, seasonality) in different hierarchy levels in Demand Module
• Facilitate weekly planning forecast calls & meetings and update forecast as necessary to gather market intelligence relative to customer activities for assigned portfolio (Promotions & Calendar events & New Products)

The Assistant Brand Manager works under the supervision of the Brand Manager who has certain key responsibilities to perform that help the brand manager as well as the organization. They help to define and to execute the brand’s launch plans both new product development and reframe/refresh projects, flawless communication plans (ATL / BTL), packaging, trade merchandising and promotion strategies and allocate the budget accordingly. An assistant is required to analyze data, present projections to the brand manager and develop suggestions on how the visibility of company’s products can be improved within the ideology and financial budget of the company.
Supports defining the brand’s packaging, advertising and promotion strategies and allocate the budget accordingly,
Accountable for projects that help deliver the brand’s profit, volume and market share objectives,
Coordinates product management projects with internal and external resources to achieve results (advertising agencies, market research, product development, production planning, trade activities, sales and consultants),
Analyzes market data and compares results to established objectives to assure the effectiveness of marketing programs,
Prepare business updates and define insights/actions to support BM’s for the regular meetings (PMR, 16 Week, Stage&Gate presentations, Monthly Brand Reviews, etc),
Close tracking of NPD’s with commercialization team to ensure flawless launc process.