Pepsi Bottling Ventures is seeking a Head of People and Culture to join our team in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Who We Are
We are jointly owned by Suntory and PepsiCo. Suntory is a family-owned business founded in Japan more than 125 years ago that is known globally for their beverages and innovative spirit. PepsiCo has a 125-year plus legacy as a global leader in convenient foods and beverages. We represent Suntory’s non-alcoholic beverage industry in the United States and have an 80-year plus legacy of providing PepsiCo products to the Carolinas and beyond.
What We Do
We make, sell, and distribute PepsiCo products. We do business in four states and sell PepsiCo products to most of the market in our geographic regions. We also develop our own line of beverages, producing and distributing a growing product line nationally.
What Makes Us Unique
We bring you the beverages you love. We bring PepsiCo’s beloved beverages to you and our customers. As a part of Suntory, we believe in dreaming big and boldly pursuing our dreams, growing for good, and giving back to society. We innovate to create new beverages, like our Nature’s Twist refreshing lemonade line, and we continuously expand our beverage portfolio to bring you and our customer's joy.
What We Look for in Leaders
Our leaders embrace a coaching leadership style. We look for leaders that empower all team members. Our leaders value integrity, teamwork, accountability, adaptability, and communication in all they do and expect from their teams.
We’d love to receive your application and talk with you about your interest in the position if the overview below describes you.
Head of People and Culture Role Overview
The Head of People and Culture will lead the development and implementation of human resource strategies that support the overall business plan and strategic direction of the organization. This role will focus on enhancing the company’s culture, improving employee engagement, and driving organizational effectiveness.
Key Leadership Priorities
- Vision & Strategic Planning: Finalize and communicate a vision for Pepsi Bottling Ventures as a destination employer. Develop a detailed budget with return on investment (ROI), priorities, and timelines.
- Compensation: Establish a competitive compensation philosophy to reduce turnover. Evaluate benefits to reflect workforce needs and life stages. Enhance internal resources to support real-time compensation decisions
- Onboarding and Team Member Journey: Streamline the team member journey from recruitment to the first year. Continue advancing leadership development and organizational capability.
- Workforce Scheduling: Address mandatory overtime and maintenance-related challenges. Experiment with new schedules and solutions for seasonal staffing demands.
- Human Resource Enhancements: Build a robust workforce dashboard for data-driven decision-making. Enhance the talent acquisition strategy to strengthen applicant pipelines. Present Pepsi Bottling Ventures as a destination employer through consistent and compelling messaging.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Oversee all people-related functions, ensuring effectiveness, sound practices, efficiency, compliance, and satisfaction of business needs.
- Develop human resource strategies aligned with the company’s mission, vision, and values.
- Optimize and streamline organization-wide processes centered on team members, encompassing areas such as recruitment, onboarding, fostering engagement, performance management, feedback mechanisms, annual reviews, promotions, and benefits administration.
- Lead as a coach and trusted advisor to team members and leaders on complex human resource-related matters, including performance issues, investigations, and compliance with policies and regulations.
- Partner with executive leaders to drive scalable, innovative, and impactful company-wide people initiatives that align with Pepsi Bottling Venture’s business objectives.
- Collaborate with Suntory’s People and Culture leadership to foster synergies across our organizations, shared goals, and processes.
- Provide visionary leadership and oversight to the People and Culture team, fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and collaboration.
- Identify key human resource metrics to measure and define success, measure effectiveness of people and culture initiatives, and identify, analyze, and report people and culture trends using data insights, and make improvement recommendations.
- Ensure human resource practices comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies, mitigating risk while promoting a culture of integrity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
- Professional in Human Resources / Senior Professional in Human Resources or equivalent designation
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive human resource experience, with 5 years in a senior leadership role
- Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations
Key Must-Have Attributes
- Strategic Vision: Alignment with the chief executive officer on long-term goals
- Business Acumen: Capability to advocate for significant investments
- Cultural Fit: Approachability, openness, and trustworthiness
- Contrarian Leadership: Willingness to challenge senior team decisions when necessary
- Prioritization: A sense of urgency in decision-making
- Empathy and Delegation: Skilled in employee relations while effectively delegating
- Mentorship: Focus on guiding and supporting others
- Listening and Advocacy: Compassionate and principled decision-making
- Resourceful Leadership: Navigating an under-resourced environment to achieve ambitious goals
- Progressive Workforce Representation: A forward-thinking voice for the workforce
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel up to 15% of the time, including in-state, national, and international travel.
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation for this role is highly competitive and includes a performance-based bonus and executive benefits. Specifics will be discussed during the interview process.
- As part of your total compensation package, you will receive the following benefits:
- Paid time off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days, parental leave, and bereavement leave
- 401(k) with a company match
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance options, as well as supplemental health plan options, including accident, critical illness, and hospitalization
- Saving and spending accounts
- Company-paid telemedicine services
- Free counseling and information services
- Wellness program
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid disability coverage
- Adoption assistance
- Education assistance
- Legal service plan option
- Pay advance option
