President of PepsiCo Global Foods Simon Lowden Getting Comfortable with Discomfort

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Simon Lowden, President of Global Foods at PepsiCo, loves his new role in building the PepsiCo foods portfolio from indulgence through to nutritional.  After 22 years and a number of roles at PepsiCo, including his most recent role as CMO, Simon’s move to President is, by design, to keep him from getting too comfortable with what he knows and continuously pushing him into new territory.  Now, his mission is to develop the longer-term strategic intent for the business, drive market share growth and evolve capabilities for the future.

A key part of evolving capabilities within PepsiCo is to also understand and create a fabric where partners can add incremental value to the internal capabilities and setting everyone up from the start with ownership and accountability to achieve agility.

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