E2E Supply Chain Director, France
Overview
The Opportunity
This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape and lead the end-to-end Supply Chain agenda for France .
As Supply Chain Director, you will translate the France business strategy into a clear and integrated supply chain plan, leading execution across customer collaboration, demand and supply planning, inventory, warehousing, transportation, co-manufacturing, and connectivity with the Western Europe manufacturing network .
As a member of the France Leadership Team, you will play a dual role:delivering excellent service and operational performance today, while building the capabilities, network, and organization needed for future growth .
You will work closely with teams across France, Western Europe, EMEA, and Global functions to drive transformation, strengthen customer partnerships, improve cost and efficiency, and build a resilient, high-performing supply chain.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
Lead the end-to-end Supply Chain strategy
- Set the multi-year Supply Chain strategy and annual operating plan for France, in partnership with the France General Manager and Leadership Team.
- Translate business priorities into clear supply chain choices, investments, and execution plans.
- Connect the France agenda with broader Western Europe and EMEA priorities.
Deliver service and enable growth
- Own end-to-end customer service, product availability, and supply chain performance.
- Partner across functions to make effective trade-offs when demand, capacity, inventory, cost, or complexity compete.
- Ensure the Supply Chain organization can support evolving customer, channel, portfolio, and growth needs.
Lead integrated business planning
- Lead the Supply Chain contribution to IBP / S&OP , creating an aligned view of demand, supply, capacity, inventory, innovation, and financial implications.
- Ensure risks and opportunities are identified early and translated into clear decisions and actions.
Drive cost, cash, and productivity
- Lead the Supply Chain budget, cost agenda, and productivity pipeline.
- Improve cost-to-serve, inventory health, working capital, and network efficiency while maintaining strong standards for safety, quality, and service.
Shape a future-ready Supply Chain network
- Guide sourcing, co-manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation decisions for France.
- Ensure the network has the right capacity and capabilities to support the business over the short, medium, and long term.
- Partner with Western Europe teams to optimize connectivity with the broader manufacturing network.
Build resilience and manage risk
- Lead Supply Chain business continuity, scenario planning, and crisis response.
- Anticipate potential constraints and develop practical mitigation plans with suppliers, co-manufacturers, logistics partners, and regional teams.
Lead transformation and digital adoption
- Drive the evolution of Supply Chain ways of working in partnership with Global, EMEA, and Western Europe teams.
- Sponsor transformation across processes, network, data, and technology.
- Simplify ways of working and turn digital capabilities into measurable improvements in service, productivity, and decision-making.
- Track transformation progress and proactively address risks or barriers to delivery.
Strengthen customer partnerships
- Partner closely with Sales and key customers to move beyond transactional service management toward joint value creation.
- Build stronger planning, simpler operations, and improved outcomes for both the business and its customers.
Protect people, consumers, and reputation
- Ensure strong execution of health and safety, food safety, quality, sustainability, legal, control, and corporate standards across the Supply Chain scope, including third-party operations.
Build a high-performing organization
- Create clarity, accountability, and strong collaboration across direct and matrix teams.
- Attract, develop, and retain diverse talent while strengthening succession for critical roles.
- Build a culture of empowerment, continuous learning, healthy challenge, and high performance.
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
Education
- University degree or equivalent professional experience in Supply Chain, engineering, operations, business, or a related field.
- A postgraduate qualification is valued but not required .
Experience
We are looking for an experienced Supply Chain leader who brings:
- Significant leadership experience in end-to-end Supply Chain, operations, or a closely related field , with increasing scope and complexity.
- Broad experience across multiple Supply Chain disciplines, such as planning, logistics, customer collaboration, manufacturing, or co-manufacturing .
- Experience owning outcomes across areas such as service, cost, inventory, productivity, and transformation in a complex organization.
- Experience with IBP / S&OP, network design, third-party operations, digital transformation, or advanced performance management .
- A track record of leading leaders and multidisciplinary teams through change while maintaining strong operational performance.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to translate business strategy into clear priorities and execution.
- Confidence working with senior internal and external stakeholders, including customers and strategic operating partners.
- Fluent French and professional English , enabling effective leadership in France and collaboration across Western Europe.
While not essential, we would particularly value:
- Experience in FMCG, consumer goods, retail-facing supply chains , or another high-volume, service-critical environment.
- Exposure to food safety, quality, engineering, sustainability, or business continuity.
- Experience working across countries and cultures and successfully influencing within a matrixed organization.
Our Commitment
PepsiCo is committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive recruitment experience . We assess candidates based on objective, job-related criteria and welcome different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Reasonable adjustments can be provided throughout the recruitment process.
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