Pepsico Jobs

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Sales Representative Technical – Epping Office

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

• Selling of Essential products to customers according to AOP
• Maintain Market/Forward share and strategize with customers.
• Negotiating SOV on leaflets and social media adverts
• Maintain merchandising standards
• Maintain budget spending and space for our brands
• Lead, drive and embed a customer focused sales culture.
• Conduct Gate Meetings before Market daily
• Focus agenda in terms of Performance MTD, Execution and Discipline KPI’s
• Effective coaching Sales staff to increase Sales capability and performance.
• In-Market coaching of Van Sales Representatives
• Ensuring 100% hit rate of outlets within route
• Individual In Market visits with customers to address specific issues
• Business development and growth of customer base
• Attend meetings as and when required
• Proactively develop and implement internal and external business development strategies to achieve business growth and increase market share.
• Pivot strategic directions and align change
• Conduct regular training sessions with training team on critical business skills
• Conduct Performance reviews

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• 3 year Business / Commercial Tertiary qualification or equivalent
• 3 years working experience in a Bakery FMCG environment, with 1 year in a bakery selling role / experience
• Knowledge of the business
• Negotiating abilities
• Understanding Margins
• Strategic thinking

Variety Trialing Lead – Isando Plant Snacks

Responsibilities

Variety Trialing Lead

We’re looking for a Trialing Scientist who will lead commercial variety advancement and development as it aligns with the business trait and germplasm priorities. This position will collaborate closely with internal and external potato breeders to develop and select varieties. They will support development and implementation of performance and quality testing programs to capture environmental data, phenotype data and define experimental designs that support robust data-driven decisions, strengthen go to market messaging and inform breeding models. This position will collaborate across senior business leaders in commercial, supply chain, procurement, processing, R&D quality, and consumer insights to understand needs, develop strategies and work with breeding and crop technology teams to ensure a pipeline of business relevant solutions. In this role, the individual will also be responsible for supporting grower needs by providing variety specific growing information/practices to the local procurement/supply chain partners.

Accountabilities: 

• Developing, coordinating, and delivering the South Africa variety testing plans to develop and select varieties that meet the business defined product profiles. Creating a phenotyping and yield trial program that supports commercial decisions, delivers data to the global breeder center, and facilitates go to market value propositions, delivering on sustainability and consumer targets.
• Developing collaborative relationships with internal partners including the breeding team, trait discovery team, and variety specific agronomy crop technology team. Supporting the development of product profiles with input from the processing, quality, sensory, business, supply chain, and procurement teams.
• Be center point for variety qualification approval committee in South Africa driving final alignment on varieties that advance to becoming part of the portfolio of options for growers to produce for PepsiCo.
• Develop and maintain external breeding partnerships to identify, test and validate the progression of new varieties through commercial approval in South Africa.
• Collaborate with R&D Ag Science sector trialing teams understand region specific variety performance to maintain current data on local varieties into the global Pepsico Variety Catalog.
• Identify and implement process improvements, that work to achieve more with less, or more expeditiously and generating optimum processes for variety testing, qualification and commercial approval for use.  
• Align and track resources, people, and work objectives, that stretch goals to always achieve more, while creating value.
• Achieving successful outcomes and timelines, while consistently following guidelines, rules, standards, and compliance. Monitoring, tracking, and maintaining desired outcomes and objectives preparing for future challenges.

Qualifications

• A PhD (with >5 years experience or MSc +10y experience in an ag seed or chemical company) with plot trial experience preferably in potato, crop trait valuation, strategic needs assessment, trait/variety portfolio management, commercial agronomy and/or technology development of new variety solutions
• Previous experience executing/managing trials working to support development and implementation of performance and quality testing programs to capture environmental data, phenotype data and define experimental designs that support robust decisions, strengthen go to market messaging and inform breeding models.
• Experience in leadership and understanding of strategy, brand management, sales and market analysis.
• Have specialized knowledge of variety testing, statistical experimental design, field plot technique, statistical data analysis and interpretation, plus reporting is required.
• Possess excellent communication skills, verbal and written; ability to productively interact with people at all levels across the organization.
• Ability to travel ~20% of the time domestically

Van Sell Driver – Bloemfontein Bakery-ZAF

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Ensuring timeous delivery of goods to the customer.

• Good management of money on routes as per the procedure of the company.
• Good understanding of customer service.
• Ability to identify gaps/opportunities in the local market.
• Balancing Driver’s books – basic knowledge of reconciliation process.
• Being accountable for respective route allocated to the Driver.
• Minimizing Driver’s Shorts.
• Liaising with relevant Sales Representative.
• Good Crate Control.

Qualifications

• Matric or NQF3 (shortlisted applicants will be assessed)
• Driver’s License (Code 10) and PDP

Sales Learner x3 (Temporary) – Port Elizabeth DC

Responsibilities

Job Overview:A structured learning programme that includes theoretical and practical workplace experiential learning over a period of at least 12 months. On successful completion of this learnership, learners will have a sound understanding of marketing and brand management principles. The programme builds practical competence in sales and negotiation skills, promotion techniques, optimisation of customer satisfaction, handling customer complaints, working in a sales and marketing team and compliance and legislative considerations.

• Completion of 12 month Sales Learnership Program.
• Achievement of revenue and volume target as per Annual Operating Plan.
• Achievement of 100% customer call rate.
• Achieve 90% strike rate.
• Maintain 0.5% stales threshold rate.
• Obtain new business as per Annual Operating Plan.
• Manage cash and stock.
• Pull, analyse reports to drive continuous improvement on route.
• Support company cost control through efficient driving of vehicle.
• Comply with all functional and non-functional company policies and procedures, e.g. Sales, Health and Safety, etc.
• Housekeeping and maintenance of company assets, e.g. Hand-Held Computers, Vehicle, Uniform, Mobile phone, etc.

Qualifications

• 3-year Business/Commercial Tertiary qualification
• Valid Code 10 driver’s license
• Valid Public Drivers Permit

Sales Learner (Temporary) – George DC Snacks

Responsibilities

Job Overview:A structured learning programme that includes theoretical and practical workplace experiential learning over a period of at least 12 months. On successful completion of this learnership, learners will have a sound understanding of marketing and brand management principles. The programme builds practical competence in sales and negotiation skills, promotion techniques, optimisation of customer satisfaction, handling customer complaints, working in a sales and marketing team and compliance and legislative considerations.

• Completion of 12 month Sales Learnership Program.
• Achievement of revenue and volume target as per Annual Operating Plan.
• Achievement of 100% customer call rate.
• Achieve 90% strike rate.
• Maintain 0.5% stales threshold rate.
• Obtain new business as per Annual Operating Plan.
• Manage cash and stock.
• Pull, analyse reports to drive continuous improvement on route.
• Support company cost control through efficient driving of vehicle.
• Comply with all functional and non-functional company policies and procedures, e.g. Sales, Health and Safety, etc.
• Housekeeping and maintenance of company assets, e.g. Hand-Held Computers, Vehicle, Uniform, Mobile phone, etc.

Qualifications

• 3-year Business/Commercial Tertiary qualification
• Valid Code 10 driver’s license
• Valid Public Drivers Permit

Clerk Sales Order I – Worcester Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Capturing of Sales orders. Administrating of sales orders. Handling of customer queries.

• Capturing of Sales orders.
• Administrating of sales orders.
• Handling of customer queries.
• Attention to detail.
• Order accuracy.
• PO creation.
• Daily control checks.
• Maintaining a healthy customer relation.

Qualifications

• 2years relevant experience retail/sales environment
• Grade 12
• Experience within the FMCG environment
• Good communication skills
• Customer orientated

Clerk General III – Bloemfontein Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Performs varied clerical duties and is responsible for the full clerical function but cannot be considered a skilled or specialist clerk.

• Verified inter-coy debits & account allocations; parked journals; accounted pre-paid & accruals and allocated misc. bank items and/ or
• Checked time sheets; verified variances; submitted payroll items; maintained personnel administration incl. provident fund items and/ or
• Arranged travel; accommodation; ext. venues & catering; processed claims; prepared presentations; and typed correspondence
• Compile monthly reports
• Perform daily drivers recons
• Follow up and process outstanding invoices
• Taking orders and sorting out queries

Qualifications

• Matric
• Three years relevant experience

Millwright – Brits Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Ensuring plant maintenance efficiency, able to read diagrams and schematic drawings to determine work procedure and fault finding.

• Dismantled, fitted & assembled machinery and parts
• Executed pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical repairs
• Performed planned maintenance on machinery & equipment
• Fitted, inspected, tested and repaired MCC, circuits & wiring systems and electrical equipment
• Used, installed and applied fault finding on programmable logical control circuits (PLC’s)
• Installed and commissioned machinery and equipment
• Maintaining a clean and environmentally safe work area

Qualifications

• Matric /N3 with Completed Millwright Trade
• 3-5 years relevant experience within the manufacturing environment in the FMCG industry
• Drivers licence and Own vehicle

Crate Handler – Mokopane Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Responsible for the counting and reconciling of crates.

• Complete all operation/machine checks
• Crates are correctly stacked
• Sort broken crates and allocate
• Keep accurate record of all bread and crate quantities and report to foreman
• Neat and obstruction free workstation
• Maintained Policy and Standards

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• 12 months relevant experience within the manufacturing environment
• Communication
• Housekeeping

Electrician (3 Months Contract ) – Gqeberha Mill

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Fit fuse boxes, circuits & wiring systems and equipment. Inspect & test fused boxes, circuits, wiring systems & equipment.

• Fitted fuse boxes, circuits & wiring systems and equipment.
• Inspected & tested fused boxes, circuits, wiring systems & equipment.
• Able to read and understand electrical schematics.
• Must possess solid electrical fault-finding capabilities.
• Able to install, commission, refurbish and improve equipment unsupervised.
• Performed planned maintenance on machinery & equipment.
• Executed pneumatic repairs.
• Used, installed and applied fault finding on programmable logical control circuits (PLC’s).

Qualifications

• Grade 12.
• Diploma in Electrical will be added advantage.
• NQF 3 Trade Tested Electrician.
• Three to five years relevant experience as a Qualified Artisan.

Specialist Artisan (Millwright) – Ceres Beverages Plant x2

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for a Specialist Artisan to join our dynamic team . The main purpose of the role is to primarily to ensure that all plant equipment is functioning or operating at high levels of reliability and are maintained periodically as scheduled and all breakdowns are resolved soonest in order to ensure maximum plant availability as well as ensuring that the factory meets its key KPIs and supply the market with Pepsico products which include but are not limited to volume and quality compliance, costs and downtime reduction. Ability to coach operator, provide innovation for cost savings and be accountable for MPS, SA on respective production lines.

Accountabilities:

Maintain the machine to reach high reliability, safety and quality standard

• Performs Instrumentation/ Electrical maintenance activities associated with plant process and packaging plan• Must be willing to do Mechanical work if required• Monitors daily downtime and institute corrective action plans to prevent breakdowns • Calibrates, repairs and maintains control gear/ instrumentation and associated equipment to ensure operation within set standards• Maintains PLC’s, Networks and Electrical Cabinets (hardware and software) and performs changes/ modifications as required• Continuously evaluates the process control philosophy and initiate improvement actions in order to achieve asset performance targets• Assists in commissioning of modifications/ projects• Ensures proper documentation of changes/ modifications and perform internal audits• Ensures availability of spares for all electronic/ control systems in the plant• Accurate and timeous reporting of equipment deviations to meet/ improve equipment availability and reliability targets• Ensures proper back-up of all PLC programmes and maintains records of all upgrades• Ensures safe operations of process control systems• Resolves daily plant instrumentation issues and complete root cause analysis• Calibration of process equipment• Completes the required testing and safety checks on all instrumentation equipment• Conducts all scheduled maintenance within the required timeframes• Performs all emergency electronic maintenance• Updates and reviews documentation relating to work done and or changes in original specifications• Signs off on alternative systems suppliers based on equipment performance• Must be willing to work shifts and overtime if requested.

Administration and Document Completion• Maintaining a record of all the maintenance work that has been conducted on the machinery• Complete daily shift reports• Performing shift duties in line with operational requirements• Coach and develop operators.Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• Qualified Artisan with Trade Test Certificate in Instrumentation (must be willing to do mechanical work also)• Minimum 2 years maintenance experience in the Production/ FMCG environment • Experience of TETRAPAK equipment will be advantageous• Computer literate with knowledge of MS Office and maintenance software• Knowledge of Processing in a dairy-/ fruit juice environment, including Tubular Pasteurizers/ Sterilizers (TETRA THERM ASEPTIC DRINK)• Must have knowledge of ink jet printers/ date coders• Must have experience in control systems – PLC’s, ACDC drives and Servo drives (Allen Bradley and Siemens preferable)• Knowledge of Instrumentation, HAZOP studies, PID’s and Quality Standards

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