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Field Category Advisor

Employer
PepsiCo
Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
13 Dec 2021

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Category Management, Marketing, Sales

Job Details

Why PepsiCo?
PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies serving more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

Every day millions of people in the UK enjoy our oats, snacks, juices and beverages. The 4,500 strong team behind these household names is spread across our 10 UK sites. Our vision is to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. Behind this vision lies a passion for sustainability and a commitment to doing business in the right way. We strongly believe that integrating purpose into our business strategy will be the key to our future success.

As a Sales Development Representative, you'll manage your own territory and look after a customer base of around 150 independent and symbol and fascia retailers. Visiting around 11 stores per day, you'll be out on the road working independently a lot of the time so you'll need to be self-motivated with great time management skills.
We understand that each of our customers is unique so you'll be using both your sales expertise and your ability to build relationships to make recommendations on what products they should stock, inform them of new and exciting campaigns they can expect to see from us and generally make sure that all of our brands are being represented in the best possible way they can be.

Working with leading brands like Walkers, Quaker Oats and Tropicana this role can be challenging, but rewarding too - you'll bring the sales skills and enthusiasm and we'll provide the world class induction involving a mixture of classroom and on the job training

Accountabilities:

  • Journey plans are provided for retail visits in your territory with full maintenance of the territory to a defined # of engaged calls within your control
  • Manage in - store volume, distribution, fixture visibility, promotional execution and secondary displays within your customer base
  • Collection of stock from cash & carry on a daily, with full responsibility for purchase, tracking and store audits.
  • Transfer Orders to be placed within the symbol format


One display transformation per day: Merchandising which also could involve installation of Snack displays

What we are looking for:

  • Hunger and drive to succeed in a global FMCG company
  • Full, manual UK driving License
  • Great communication and relationship building skills
  • Incredibly self-driven personality
  • Resilience
  • Organisation skills

Company

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row. 

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com 

 

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