From rachel and the HR person - -
Dear PepsiCo Foods U.S. Team,
This week, we took important steps to adapt to the challenging business environment we face today. PepsiCo Foods has always been about evolving and growing – and while we’ve made progress, we must do more to position ourselves for long-term success.
To continue Winning the Consumer, we must stay nimble. That’s why we took action to streamline our business, which included a thoughtful reimagination of our team structures.
By now, you’ve likely heard from your functional leaders with more details on what’s changing within your team. New ways of working across teams will continue to be discussed in the coming weeks. At a high level, the changes include:
Refining our Away from Home strategy to simplify roles, remove redundancy, develop our national execution agenda, and refine our geographic structure, all while maintaining AFH as a Foods-focused team.
Reorganizing our Marketing teams to accelerate progress against strategic growth priorities, adding resources across teams to ensure we continue our journey to build true food master brands, and appointing dedicated leaders to focus on high-growth opportunities.
Prioritizing long-term regional growth in Field Sales through optimized service and customer structures.
Enhancing our channel-focused structure to elevate under-developed channels (Club, Hard Discount, etc.), integrating to an As One Foods Sales Strategy and Planning team with clear wiring points, and creating a unified Warehouse selling and execution team to capitalize on the strengths of our Hispanic Business Unit and Quaker businesses.
Leveraging the power of Centers of Excellence in Finance and HR to reduce complexity, simplify processes, and standardize our work. We also aligned HR Business Partners to our Leadership structure to better support the teams that bring our great products to market.
Making the difficult decision to permanently close our Liberty, N.Y. facility, ensuring a smooth transition for the affected employees, and continuing to invest in and produce PopCorners as a beloved consumer brand.
There’s also a great deal that’s not changing: our strong culture of excellence, our hunger for growth, and our enduring ambition to live Faster, Stronger and Better. We are continuing to adopt a consumer-centric mindset, making sure that every decision – from product innovation to retail execution – is made with the consumer at the center. By thinking end-to-end across our business, we can respond faster to evolving tastes, ensure consistent quality, and strengthen our ability to bring delicious, convenient foods to market.
We recognize this affects all of us in different ways, some more directly than others. We look forward to discussing this and our future at our PepsiCo Foods U.S. Town Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 25. Please be sure to submit your questions to Slido. We look forward to seeing you then.
With a clear focus on the consumer, winning culture, stellar customer service, and breakthrough innovation, we are confident we will create sustainable growth for the future.