Top 10: Women in Supply Chain

As Chief Supply Chain Officer at PepsiCo, Karen Jordan leads the North American Supply Chain for PepsiCo’s beverage business – a portfolio of billion-dollar brands such as Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Starbucks, and Rockstar.

Jordan has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University, spent over nine years at Procter & Gamble, then joined Pepsi in 2002 as a Supply Chain Operations Manager.

Over the next two decades, she held multiple managerial positions at Pepsi, and gained her master’s degree in Transformative Leadership and Social Change from Maryland University of Integrative Health, as well as a certificate in Executive Education: Strategy Master Class from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

She is now known for collaboratively driving benchmark productivity and service results in an FMCG retail environment, utilising her on-the-ground plant management experience to deliver world-class safety, quality, service, sustainability, and cost, as well as deploying innovative employee engagement solutions that increase diversity, retention, and engagement of leaders in frontline to senior executive positions.

Jordan was recently a key voice in PepsiCo’s ‘She is PepsiCo’ campaign, which includes 28 personalised delivery trucks for frontline female employees: “Women play a valuable role in PepsiCo’s frontline, and the opportunity for them to continue to power our supply chain is an opportunity for both PepsiCo and the communities we serve,” says Jordan. “History has shown us that women have the ability to transform industries, so it’s exciting to see progress and to be able to recognise these women across North America on our trucks, one of our most widely-seen assets.”