Vice President, Digital Projects

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.


Date: 1 day ago
City: Frisco, TX
Contract type: Full time
Job Overview:

Vice President of Digital Projects

Position Summary: The Vice President of Digital at KDP is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving high-impact, cross-functional digital transformation initiatives. Over the last several years digital technologies have begun playing a pivotal role in across all businesses and KDP is no exception. This role was created to lead the efforts needed to drive business changes to leverage various digital enablers to accelerate KDP’s business growth. Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), this position is integral to helping KDP achieve its digital ambitions.

Reporting Structure: This position reports directly to the SVP, CIO.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversight of Digital Products & Platforms: Lead and manage a portfolio of digital products/projects, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with strategic objectives. This will be including leading from idea inception through the entire digital product lifecycle.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business unit leaders and functional executives to understand needs, set priorities, and drive digital priorities. This will also include extensive interactions and collaboration with peers across KDP Tech.
  • Ensure Teams are Following the KDP Tech Product Operating Model for Assigned Portfolios: Establish and maintain governance frameworks to ensure effective oversight and management of digital products in assigned portfolios.
  • Drive Value Creation and Realization: Digital Transformation at KDP is anchored in delivering a positive ROI across the work. The VP will be responsible for working with business stakeholders to align expected value and impacts on revenue and costs.
  • Ensure Alignment of Digital and Business Goals/Strategies: KDP’s digital goals need to be consistently aligned with its business strategy and the incumbent will be responsible for the matching digital side of this equation. It is critical that most of the digital initiatives deliver outsize value.
  • Champion All Things Digital at KDP: Digital technologies are occupying a more and more important role in KDP’s ability to achieve its business goals. Expectation is that the incumbent will advocate for Digital to help KDP gain a market advantage.


Total Rewards:

  • Benefits, subject to election and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Paid Time Off (including paid parental leave, vacation, and sick time), 401k with company match, Tuition Reimbursement, and Mileage Reimbursement
  • Annual bonus based on performance and eligibility


Requirements:

Education Requirements:

  • Required: Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience
  • Preferred: MBA or similar advanced degree.


Required Experience:

    • Extensive background in digital transformation at Fortune 500-scale organizations ideally in the food and beverage spaces.
    • Deep experience in leveraging new technologies at scale to drive business value
    • Experience leading teams and team of teams in a product focused operating model environment.
    • Proven track record of leading large-scale programs and projects.
    • Strong leadership and management skills.

Preferred Experience:

    • Experience in consumer goods (CPG), ideally in the food/beverage segments.
    • Familiarity with both agile and traditional project delivery models.
    • International experience

Travel and Location:

  • Location: Based in Frisco, TX
  • Travel: Occasional travel may be required to meet with stakeholders, vendors and visit company locations.


Skills and Competencies:

  • Program/Product Management: Expertise in managing complex digital programs/products following Agile, Scrum and similar methodologies. Experience should include
  • Executive Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with senior executives and stakeholders across all mediums. This also includes being able represent the company at industry events.
  • Stakeholder Management: Strong skills in engaging and managing relationships with key stakeholders to drive planning
  • Innovation: Drive and foster a culture of innovation within KDP Tech and across KDP that encourages the exploration and implementation of new technologies and methodologies.
  • Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically and align digital initiatives with the broader KDP goals, ensuring they contribute to organizational success.
  • Leadership: Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve high-performance and deliver results.
  • Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to develop and implement strategies to support digital transformation and ensure smooth transitions.
  • Financial Acumen: Understanding of financial principles and the ability to manage large budgets, forecast costs and ensure financial accountability for digital products/projects.
  • Consumer Orientation: KDP’s business relies on building a deep understanding of our consumers – this role will be leading teams that work to make that a reality.


Company Overview:

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partners brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it!

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale. Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that’s proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us?

We strive to be an employer of choice, providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of ~29,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Total Rewards

Requirements

Company Overview

How to apply

To apply for this job you need to authorize on our website. If you don't have an account yet, please register.

Post a resume