.OverviewPepsiCo is looking for Agro West Europe Capability & Sustainability Lead to join in one of the locations: Vitoria, Spain; Dublin, Ireland or Geneva, Switzerland.Job PurposeA Global Agriculture function has been formed to maximize our scale for the biggest bets and build critical capabilities to drive progress against our strategic potato agenda. Key to this delivery are the following strategic objectives:Develop & manage global strategic partnerships to accelerate scaled innovation across business.Build key playbooks to enable "lift and shift" collaboration and leverage Global best practices.Drive standardization and scale of proven (best) practices across PepsiCo while identifying and securing the investments and strategic partnerships across local markets required for the future.The purpose of this new role will be to work with the Global team and across West Europe Agronomy team/farmers to integrate these Global partnerships and Best Practices through locally relevant adaptation to deliver accelerated potato productivity and reduce current high barriers of entry for new, local farmers through improved crop resilience, grower livelihoods whilst driving accelerated adoption of Pep+ vision. By accelerating adoption of best-in-class practices, this role will generate additional PEP shareholder value and economic growth through improved availability of local potatoes whilst preserving natural resources, contributing to developing communities and striving to reduce our overall environmental impact.ResponsibilitiesLead interface with Global Agriculture and West Europe/BU Sustainability teams.Establish strong network and be primary partner of Global Agriculture Capability & Global Solutions Lead, Global Implementation Lead and Seed Lead to adapt and deploy locally relevant global programs across West Europe.Scope: Provide key support in the development of detailed launch plans, trial protocols and implementation plans of Global priority programs including specific implementations across Ag Tech, Seed pipelines, New Variety ramp-up, model farms and pep+ initiatives. Engage local farmers and take lead in deployment across West Europe including tracking and reporting delivery against mutually agreed goals.Regen Ag / PEP+ Agriculture StrategyWorking across Global Team, Europe Agro Best Practice lead and West Europe BU Agro leads, provide thought leadership and integrate transformational PEP+ Agriculture 2025 & 2030 goal delivery strategies across EP Direct Agro categories covering total spend of US$ 0.25B to achieve PEP+ Agriculture goals of (a) Reducing water use by 15% in high water risk areas by 2025 / GHG reduction of 40% by 2030 vs baseline 2015 and (b) Delivery of Regen Ag targets for Direct Agro in Europe
