• High level of business acumen is required (5 to 7 years business experience)
• Fluent in English
• Financial knowledge & commercial understanding
• Very strong, proven commercial project leadership skills
• Operating knowledge of how to commercialize large scale innovation (incl. Stage Gate management)
• Strong commercial negotiation skills and/or commercial supply chain experience
• Good understanding of market research methods
• Understand channels/trade P&L
• Strong commercial negotiation skills and commercial supply chain experience
• Working within a complex, fluid x-functional environment
• Managing significant amounts of change and being able to influence a broad base of x-functional stakeholders & peers

The purpose of this role is to build, roll-out & embed best in class project management on marketing innovations and activations through stage gate, systems, data standards, & KPIs consistent with Category & EER (PepsiCo East Europe organisation) best practices & principles.
The overarching role of Commercialization is to enable our organization to remain competitive and achieve sustained growth via the flawless execution of ‘Fewer, Bigger, Better’ innovation.

• Ensure the team are ready for Gate Reviews, including all necessary information available and all critical tests and results complete
• Identify & escalate risk within projects to Commercialization Associate Manager for resolution with key stakeholders
• NPD ownership & reporting
• Ensure together with Planning the actual results of innovations are accurately reported in FP&A and in Accolade
• Better Comm’n support for business processes
• PPA / Comm change project management
• Actively manage VE productivity & Renovation & Promotion projects & stage gate support
• SKU Optimization RM Write-off elimination