Overview

CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT
At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day.

At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

You will be part of PepsiCo’s Western Europe Operating Unit, which encompasses multiple regions across our Market Units: Benelux, France, Iberia (Spain & Portugal), and GRoW (Germany and the Rest of Western Europe: Austria, Italy, Nordics Food, Switzerland).

The Next Chapter

Change Management Manager, West Europe plays a key role in turning transformation priorities into meaningful and sustainable change across the Operating Unit. You will partner with functional and market leaders to understand how change impacts people, processes and ways of working, translating this into practical approaches that build readiness and adoption. You will lead change management for priority initiatives, connecting Global and EMEA transformation with the needs of West Europe and specifically DACH markets. At its heart, this role is about helping leaders and teams successfully navigate change and ensuring transformation delivers lasting impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end change management for priority West Europe transformations in the DACH markets, developing and executing the change strategies, plans and deliverables required for successful adoption.
• Act as a trusted change partner to senior leaders, helping them understand the organisational implications of change and equipping them to visibly and effectively lead their teams through it.
• Design and deliver detailed change management activities, including impact and readiness assessments, change approaches and sustainment plans, working through the PEP change planning framework of Assess, Plan, and Integrate & Sustain and the 5 As: Awareness, Acknowledgement, Acceptance, Activation and Adoption.

Qualifications

You will bring strong change management experience, ideally across complex business transformation involving culture, process, technology and new ways of working. You will be confident partnering with senior leaders, providing thoughtful challenge and guidance while navigating complexity, ambiguity and competing priorities. You will have strong capability across change leadership, stakeholder engagement, impact and readiness assessment, behaviour change, communications, adoption and sustainment. Above all, you will combine structured change management expertise with strong business judgement, curiosity and the ability to build trust and influence across organisational boundaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR, Organizational Development, Communications or related field
• Minimum 5 years of in-depth experience in Change Management, Large-scale global transformations, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Consulting experience
• Proficiency in MS Office suite of applications including Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint etc.