?Leading the China R&D Trialing and Development strategy and organization to create and select varieties that meet the business defined product profiles. Creating a phenotyping and yield trial program that supports commercial decisions, delivers data to the global breeding organization, and facilitates go-to-market value propositions, delivering on grower needs as well as sustainability and consumer targets.
?Developing collaborative relationships with external and internal partners including the breeding team, trait discovery team, and variety specific agronomy crop technology team. Supporting the development of product profiles with input from the processing, quality, sensory, business, supply chain, procurement teams and PepsiCo growers.
?Develop key relationships with external breeding companies to leverage their pipeline of variety solutions and incorporate them into the PepsiCo trialing program by conducting head-to-head comparisons. Identify viable new variety candidates that deliver advantage to country specific Lays/Baked/Crisps/Chips brand proposition.
?Collaborate with R&D sector leads, business unit GMs, supply chain VPs/directors, and R&D research teams to understand regions specific needs/opportunities both short- and long-term. Develop strategic plans to fill short-term variety pipeline gaps/needs and provide variety profile needs to breeding and crop technology teams forecasting future needs/solutions.
?Lead cross organization variety review and advancement meetings leading all parties to aligned decisions on commercialization, agricultural technology solutions, and best IPM (integrated pest management) strategies. Also guide the team in transferring optimal production practices to Supply Chain/Procurement teams and growers to deliver best in class experience with newly launched varieties.
?Engage staff in their personal development and fulfillment/goals, ensuring each has the skills needed for success in their roles and continued growth, while continuously evaluating their fit in their position, their desire and training to accomplish tasks safely, and the resources required to help them achieve beyond their goals
?Lead process improvements, that work to achieve more with less, or more expeditiously and generating optimum processes that enable team/business needs. Develop a culture of safe practices and full implementation of safety guidelines/training.
?Align and track resources, people, and work objectives, that stretch goals to always achieve more, while creating value and future growth of team members.
?Achieve successful outcomes and timelines, while consistently following guidelines, rules, standards, and compliance. Monitor and track desired outcomes and objectives preparing for future challenges.
