Marketing Capabilities Manager, India
PepsiCo · Gurgaon
- Experience10–11 yrs
- SalaryNot disclosed
- Work modeonsite
- Levelexecutive
- Posted10 Sept 2026
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo is hiring in Gurgaon in consumer goods. This role looks for around 10+ years of experience.
Skills
- marketing transformation
- brand management
- creative development
- project management
The role
A marketing capability manager at a consumer goods company leads marketing transformation, brand management, and creative development while deploying growth planning frameworks and building organizational capability. This person also applies project management and learning and development to strengthen marketing execution.
Full job description
Overview
We’re introducing a new Marketing Capability and Operations role for India to drive and embed key marketing capabilities whilst retaining direct connectivity with the Global Marketing Capability and Operations team. This role will also be responsible of driving the marketing capability agenda for the India market across both Foods and Beverages.
This is a key role as part of the Global Marketing Capability & Operations sub-function to land our Powering Positive Growth (PPG) Agenda for PEP’s consumer organization across both food and beverages for PepsiCo globally. The global capability and operations program is expected to deliver step-changed brand-building organization capability to support development of our overall pull muscle through our PPG priorities of developing Iconic Brands, embedding the PepsiCo-wide growth model, Growth Navigator and delivering significant A&M efficiencies through Becoming Better Investors for reinvestment in top markets, key brands and new future-facing capabilities
This role is to elevate India PO1 marketing capability efforts through the partnership with Global marketing capability & operations team to develop and deploy world class marketing capability content and drive the capability building. This role will deliver and embed the global transformation & capability program which is expected to deliver step-changed brand-building capabilities to support development of Iconic Brands, embed the PepsiCo growth model, and new future facing capabilities.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of this role include:
Marketing Transformation leadership: enabling, launching and removing barriers to embed the transformation in International Beverages with a focus on Iconic Brands inclusive of the overall Creative excellence and content workstream and Growth Navigator. Lead Marketing Capability & Operations in India to embed & sustain change across PepsiCo Land the priority workstreams of Iconic Brands that move culture and Growth Navigator across India Foods & Beverages. Ensure close cooperation with the CMO India Foods to orchestrate the transformation within International Beverages and India Foods.Be the Change Agents for PepsiCo’s Consumer Organization in India.
Marketing & Insights Capability Strategy & Leadership
Build & deploy holistic capability programming calendar for inclusive of:Upskilling against PPG priorities of Growth Navigator, Iconic Brands, and Human Centricity using the global PPG Marketing Academy material, to build knowledge amongst relevant associatesOngoing support/consulting/coaching opportunities on key brand artifacts (Brand Pulse, CBPs, DBAs) and growth planning documents (BGS, TCP Architecture, TCP Opportunity Briefs, etc.) to elevate deliverable qualityGovernance process for key brand deliverables within the growth planning process (BGS, ABP, TCP Architecture, TCP Opportunity Brief) to drive oversight and accountability amongst India leadershipAlign agenda and collaborate on deployment with the Global Marketing Capabilities team, and ensure ongoing tracking of deployments within the global tracker.Ensure full utilization and understanding of latest global tools (e.g. Ada Amplify+), frameworks (e.g. TCP KPI & Objectives framework), and templates (e.g. new BGS template) across the full growth planning processConsult global marketing capabilities team on future priorities and areas of focus to drive continued impactCoordinate as needed with global MC&O comms team on communications plans to support capability and culture initiatives within India teams
Creative Excellence Leadership
Serve as the Creative excellence champion for India with focus on:Aligning and executing a holistic plan to elevate the creative capability within the India teams with support from the global marketing capabilities team. Plan to include amplification of global Creative Spark townhalls/emails as well as any additional inspiration and learning opportunities for the India teamsCoordinating execution of One PepsiCo Creative forums (Strategic Brand Week, Global Creative Council, Global Creative Advisory) partnering with the global creative capabilities team and India brand teamsEstablishing protocol for Market Creative Reviews within IndiaOwning the external Awards process to deliver a winning awards pipeline across priority awards including Cannes an Effies, supporting teams as needed with awards information and case study developmentDriving and managing the BAM process for the India teams: aligning campaign submissions and entries among India brand and leadership teams, coordinating all BAM related communications across India, and ensuring strict adherence to the timeline and process protocols.
Growth Navigator Deployment Support
GN roll out across India in line with ExComm:
Embed scorecards, develop and deliver core enhancements as neededEmbedding GN through OU Growth planning processes
Qualifications
Bachelor Degree in Marketing or related fieldAt least 10 years working experience related to Marketing Strong leadership, organizational savvy and high learning agility Strong timeline and project management capability. Ability to build excellent relationships, including senior leader stakeholder managementKnowledge of PepsiCo Marketing organization and previous brand management experience preferred with critical experience in creative development, planning, and awards preferredExperience with Learning and Development, training content development and center of excellence experience is an advantage.