Overview
- Serve as the Financial and Strategic Advisor to the Beverages GM and Beverages Finance Director. The Category & Franchise Finance Planner play a pivotal role in shaping and driving Business Decisions, financial performance by providing strategic support to key Leadership team members in the Beverage Structure.
- The role requires the incumbent to proactively lead the beverage category and franchise function.
- The role directly leads planning/ forecasting the two biggest cost lines – STB and A&M.; including driving end to end discussions with Category/ Franchise stakeholders as well as Bottler discussions/ negotiations.
- Requires robust understanding of the Beverages value chain and financial planning acumen.
- The Role partners cross functionally across the entire beverages structure from Franchise, Category, Growth Office, RGM, Insights, R&D;, Supply Chain as well as Bottling Partners

Responsibilities

Responsibilities – Daily Management
- Franchise Partnership: Build bottler relationships, lead the discussion on STB discussions with Bottler,



Financial Planning / Forecasting STB Spends, Build shadow Bottler P&L; and Support JBP and ad-hoc bottler engagement discussions on issues facing the Business, support franchise teams, GM and other cross-functional teams
- Category Partnership: Lead the Planning and forecasting of the Marketing Spends, actively engaging with the Marketing leadership team on the Marketing Budget, modification as well as distribution across brands/ channels. Finance Governance on Stagegate Process, Innovation Process, Hold the governance on ROI based investment prioritization, support category teams, GM and other cross-functional teams.
- New Channels. Finance Business Partner for New Emerging Growth Channels (AFH & Ecom), Drive investment decisions and Channel profitability improvement
- Governance and Stewardship: Support business and governance agreements (BDA, CMA, EBA)
- Strategic Finance: Drive building up of Long Term Financial

📌 Associate Director (Gurugram)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Gurugram