Functional Analyst GTM & Marketing - PepsiCo Park CDC Snacks at PepsiCo

What we’re looking for:

Were looking for a Functional Analyst GTM & Marketing to join our team.

This Role is responsible for identifying initiatives for SSA in GTM & Marketing area. Role is accountable to provide. leadership, ownership, and accountability for the relationships between business [GTM/MARKETING] & PepsiCo IT.  This includes shaping the requirements, proposal creation, business alignment on funding, owning the product end to end for business delivery, adoption, and value realization by working with various stakeholders. This role also includes working with internal IT delivery, security, Enterprise architect etc. teams during the various phases of the project to ensure the deliverables are met per business expectation.

This role also includes identification of new technologies to meet & solve business challenges and ensures that it’s aligned to global and sector roadmap. The role is also responsible for gathering business requirements to establish processes and application functionality requirements and translate into functional specifications and training plans, matching the needs of the business with the use of business solutions.

The role will also develop a broad understanding of PepsiCo business processes and systems and an in-depth knowledge across a specific portfolio of process areas and applications. In addition, you will lead the preparation and execution of system and user acceptance test plans and provide cover for the Project Manager and lead small project development as required. You will provide a high level of business analysis skills to projects autonomously, and also by influencing, coaching and mentoring functional and business analysts throughout the organization.

Accountabilities: 

• Demand management, prioritization and working with business in shaping up the requirements
• Alignment & manage DevSecOps team for overall delivery and sustain for the business applications & AOP priorities
• Be the first point of contact for business on new initiative in terms of being consultant to business for automation.
• Translate business direction in firm action points and align with IT strategy at sector level.
• Manage the cost & scope for respective programs under GTM & MARKETING area.
• Come up with continues improvement agenda for reducing the issues and increase business value realization from IT automation.
• Work with vendors and external teams to seek new technology/tool adoption to drive productivity and cost effectiveness.
• Own and deliver the digital agenda for GTM/MARKETING planning and analysis
• Lead the development of Business and Functional analysis, providing accurate and measurable estimates for Business Analysis deliverables
• Lead the collection, understanding, documentation and translation of the business requirements for the project, into functional specifications and detailed test plans. Ensure that all activities comply with relevant Operating model procedures, including relevant Service Management, Project Lifecycle Management and security controls.
• Provide Business Process design and documentation expertise, recommend business process and/or system improvements using formal (and informal) techniques. Lead the development and implementation of these improvements / new processes
• Develop a broad understanding of PepsiCo processes and applications and a deeper knowledge across an agreed portfolio.
• Test, implement and train in systems and lead System and User Acceptance testing
• Manage issue gathering and resolution ensuring that business requirements are met without compromising the integrity of the process improvement(s) or applications being implemented.
• Collaborates with other business and functional analysts to ensure consistency and quality of system and process implementations and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives across the Analyst pool.
• Working with Business and Delivery team, assist in the production of a rigorous business case covering the development and implementation of business changes as necessary.
• Provide the link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle.
• Document all work using the required standards, methods and tools and recommend /lead improvements to standards where appropriate

Qualifications

• Proven expertise & Demonstrable Skills in Business Analysis
• Demonstrable knowledge and successful application of the principles, methods, techniques and tools of various business analysis techniques.
• Detailed knowledge and experience in implementing IT related business projects, which involve multiple activities and streams of people from both IT and business teams.
• Demonstrable experience writing requirements specifications for Information Systems.
• Experience of leading small change across a business function involving both business processes and IT systems.
• Business Analysis accreditation an advantage.
• Business Process engineering using a variety of recognized techniques.
• The ability to write Functional Specifications, Business Process documents according to a variety of recognized standards.