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Overview
PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making everyday 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 the planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com.
Here at PepsiCo UK&I we are looking for a fantastic Customer Business Manager to manage our Snacks commercial relationships for one of our top customers.
The successful candidate will be critical in unlocking our business potential with our customer managing our Snacks business. You will ensure that the account runs smoothly by managing our Sharing portfolio.
We're looking for somebody who is keen to have real ownership of the account JBP and Account Plans. You'll be expected to play a key role in Brand Plans and regular internal forums such as HIT plan.
The role will expose you to many functions across the business including close contact with finance, supply chain & our field partners at McCurrach.
Responsibilities
* You will be responsible for the smooth running of sales events such as twice-yearly Brand Plans.
* You will be responsible for owning the relationship on our Snacks Sharing portfolio and management of the P&L.
* Achieve business commercial objectives.
* Manage external customer relationships with key trading contacts.
* Build & execute JBPs to deliver mutual PepsiCo and customer growth.
* Key part of customer team - delivering positive team dynamic and showing role model behaviour.
* Manage an internal matrix of Shopper Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Digital, Category Management teams.
Qualifications
* Sales experience, including past experience of account ownership.
* Proven commercial and analytical ability in order to manage both the operational and strategic agendas.
* Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with a proven ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders.
* Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to conduct multi-faceted negotiations at both tactical and strategic/contractual level.
* A customer-centric and innovative approach.
Why PepsiCo?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We're also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.
We pride ourselves on our superb workforce. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of the executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long-term career.
A space to be y( )u
We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bringing their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That's why we've empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG's), ask our team.
We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010; we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.
To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.
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