PEPSICO Vacancies

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Accounts Payable Manager – Cape Town HQ

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

To efficiently manage the full accounts payable function, DPO, ensuring payments to suppliers are made in a timely manner, supplier queries resolved and cashflow is effectively utilized. To ensure staff are adequately trained, developed and are operating effectively.

Accountabilities

• Manage the full accounts payable function within the organisation’s established policies, including managing the creditors team, motivating and developing them
• Ensure smooth reconciliation process, ensuring payments are calculated accurately and

within agreed terms, review audit trails and ensure that the appropriate levels of internal controls are maintained

• Effectively manage Cash flow and Creditors days through negotiation of favourable terms with suppliers and liaising with management regarding timing of payments
• Actively engaging with all relevant stakeholders, including suppliers, purchasing and operations department in resolving any payment related problem that could result in the

breakdown of supplying goods/service

• Making sound decisions under pressure ensuring company policies and procedures are followed
• Review accrual reconciliations, follow up on outstanding items and consider areas for improvement
• Improve Accounts Pavable policies and processes, ensurinq better utilisation of IT

KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• Achieve and exceed DPO targets
• Maximise cashflow position
• Promote an environment with competent, motivated staff
• Staff development and training
• Improved supplier and customer relations

DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY

(Give examples of decisions made with/without reference to Manager, explain frequency of contact with Manager)

• Negotiate and correspond with suppliers regarding payment terms, settlement discounts, queries etc.
• Problem solving, internal (e.g.GRN’s, 3 way matching) and external (Suppliers) with and without reference depending on significance of problem
• Timing/Management of Cashflow with reference to management
• Recruitment of competent staff members as and when necessary
• Staff leave approval

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills.
• 3 year Financial Accounting Diploma/degree
• MS Office E
• RP system knowledge (SAP4Hana)
• 3 – 5 years Accounts Payable Management ex
• Aptitude for figures

“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”

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Sales Supervisor – Worcester Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Supervising staff.Ensure development and growth across all categories by achieving revenue and volume targets as per Annual Operating Plan. Market visits. Promote sales by introducing merchandising and display techniques to Sales Reps. Keeps the organization informed of competitor activity and customer status. Business development and growth of customer base. Ability to access, analyze sales and apply insights to sales reports to drive growth

• Achievement of revenue and volume target as per Annual Operating Plan 
• Obtain new business as per Annual Operating Plan 
• Access and analyze reports to drive continuous improvement  
• Management of staff
• Compile and implement sales & promotional plan 
• Manage costs to stay within the AOP 
• Visit and support customers 
• Manage customer complaints 
• Compile monthly Sales reports  

Qualifications

• 3-year Business/Commercial Tertiary qualification or equivalent 
• 3 years working experience in FMCG environment, with 1 year in a selling role/selling experience 
• Valid driver’s license  
• Leaderships skills 
• Good communication skills 
• Good clerical and computer skills

“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”

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Consumer Insights Analyst

Responsibilities
Consumer Research: Lead ad-hoc consumer insights research projects providing input into the design, management of research agencies and key stakeholders autonomously, input into presentations to extract insight to leverage within the business, ensuring that recommendations from the research are implemented.

Brand performance evaluation/Post evaluation of marketing activities: Monitors brand equity and activities such as occasion tracking on a quarterly basis. Presenting back to the brand and commercial teams with recommendations to ensure we maintain and build our brands.

Consumer Analysis: Preparation and delivery of integrated reports drawing all pieces of information from multiple sources together and connecting dots to form coherent and insightful reports.

Foundational Framing: Supporting the roll-out of key strategic initiatives such as Demand Tracker, Needscope, and tech driven initiatives etc. to fully entrench them within the business. Leading projects for opportunities identified for the category. In addition, support relevant projects to understand consumer groups in SA.

Trends: Identify and drive knowledge of latest consumer and market trends within your category as well as with the broader commercial team

Qualifications
Technical Skills

Relevant tertiary qualification with a strong emphasis on commercial subjects.
Minimum for 5 years’ experience in both qualitative and quantitative research either at agency or FMCG, building a solid knowledge of research methodologies and techniques (qual &quant); basic statistics.
Proven Commercial Acumen
Proven Strategic ability with strong analytical/ creative/ innovative skills
Good Knowledge of research methodologies and techniques (qual&quant); basic statistics
Experience in developing and maintaining relationships with external agencies and internal stakeholders
Excellent communication, presentation leveraging storytelling and project management skills
Fluent in English
Bonus is Food and Beverages category experience and Pan Africa experience
Personal skills

Passionate, self-motivated, highly curious and strong willing to learn and develop.
Mature, self-confident and self-managed personality
Strong can do attitude
Able to synthesize multiple sources of info to give recommendation
High level of integrity and ability to push back when challenged by the business
Committed team player with a passion for growth
Confidence to build strong relationships with peers and management
Ability to cope under pressure and be agile in ways of working and thinking
An eye for detail and highly numerate with strong analytical thinking, proven ability to spot trends, synthesize and integrate learning from multiple sources and see the connections in data, trends, events etc to generate insights.
Lead research projects from brief to debrief but also ensure it is entrenched into the business through effective business partnering
Represent insights in cross-functional team on Product, Market and Process Innovation.
Ability to combine data, judgement, and experience to make effective decisions in complex situations and when there is a lot of uncertainty or ambiguity.
Ability to empathize with the consumer.
Differentiating Competencies:

Insights the PepsiCo Way:

Be Simple

Be Brave

Be Intentional

Leveraging Tech Partnerships

Global Insights Enabling Behaviours:

Empathize with the Consumer
Open and better with diversity
Choreograph Change
Collaborate to Win
Satisfy Intellectual Curiosity
Influence through Storytelling
Embrace Risk
Navigate Ambiguity

Global Insights Operating values:

Bias for Action … even over Absolute Clarity
Future Forward POV … even over What Works Now
Working in Public … even over Working Alone
Common Good … even over Personal Importance

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GAO Market Access & Supply Senior Analyst – Isando Plant Snacks, Istanbul-AsyaPO1-FLT-TUR, Vitoria-HQ-ESP, Krakow – Hub- POL

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

The newly formed PepsiCo Global Agriculture Office (GAO) is charged with building a highly productive vertically integrated potato supply chain.  The GAO is tasked with accelerating value realization across the function (currently approx. $50MM per annum) to deliver an additional $ 100 MM by 2027 and $ 200 MM by 2029 across mature as well as high growth/high risk emerging markets. 

Accountabilities

1. Manage and administrate the Global Supply Working Group (GS WG) across the sectors to ensure that the GAO maintain global supply visibility and insights (macro/global market dynamics etc.), to support the business with medium to long term/strategic supply planning for both Chipstock and Potato Seed across sectors, including:
2. Delivering an accurate global crop year analysis and supply overview to support sector and BU teams to resolve supply challenges and ensure that the teams can deliver high service levels to globally, including support with Potato volume surplus, shortfall and Ad Hoc constraint overview management; Investigation of import and export opportunities; and the communication with stakeholders to align best cost, quality, service solutions.
3. Reviewing in cooperation with the GS WG the supply and demand balances, evaluate risks (e.g. demand, weather, crop availability, quality loss, etc.) and cause of change on a regular basis (monthly/weekly/as required) including hot spots and bright spots in the supply chain.
4. Leading stakeholder alignment for GS WG global supply decisions and solutions that deliver value to the business and suppliers, through potential cost-savings and productivity opportunities associated with best practice.
5. Manage and administrate the Global Market Development and Access Working Group across the sectors to:
6. Develop and maintain an accurate market access overview including the current Potato tariff and non-tariff market barriers within PepsiCo markets, including:
   1. Staying up to date with recent tariff and policy changes and any potential impacts on the business; as well as
   2. High-priority macro policy/political activities and events that could impact our business.
7. In accordance with the above develop an action plan with stakeholders such as PepsiCo Public and Government Affairs and BU’s to gain or maintain market access in priority markets.
8. Manage special projects intended to:
   1. Provide market access solutions for commercial and seed volumes; and
   2. Improve understanding of global market supply dynamics and commercial modeling.
9. Collaborate with sectors and BU agriculture teams to drive scalable and consistent global standards, policies, best practices, and technologies, as identified, and prioritized through the working groups.
10. Work in cross functional teams to support delivery of supply and market access related productivity projects, information-based analysis, develop new tools to drive value. Use data and analytics tools to drive decision making and improvement.
11. Collaborate with PEP partners such as PPGA, R&D and Sector and BU teams to ensure that all registration specific actions are monitored and completed as required such as country variety registrations etc.

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• Candidates for this role should have a procurement or ag-sciences degree, master’s or higher preferred, and more than 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven working experience across relevant industry.
• Strong with data analytics and digital solutions.
• Experience in planning and scheduling experience across multiple business units preferred.
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor message depending on audience.
• Strong digital and information management skills – ability to use existing software platforms and data tools to extract information and intelligence that support the GA objectives.
• Good collaborator with proven communication skills and business orientation.

“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”

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Clerk General III (Payroll) – Epping Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Handles a skilled level of calculations, verbal and written communications, outside enquiries, follow-up or explanation. May seek advice from a Section Leader but has some discretion. Handles a greater variety of tasks, level clerical staff.

• Administer payroll related tasks, resolving payroll discrepancies and answering employee payroll queries.
• Support the Automation or grading of payroll systems.
• Maintaining all payroll operations according to company policies and procedures.
• Administer Unemployment and Workers Compensation.
• Updating payroll records by entering changes to employee information, union fees movements.
• Administer and assist with the benefits administration fund related tasks, Incapacity Leave and Ill Health.
• Training junior employees with changes on the payroll system.
• Support with audits and year end reconciliation.
• File and store payroll documents securely and in accordance with data protection laws.
• Assist with ad hoc, general office tasks, such as creating PO’s and assisting the reception desk and other duties.
• Excellent verbal written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize and manage tasks to meet deadlines and expectations with minimal supervision.
• Prepare and submit required payroll reports to internal departments or external agencies, coordinate and process the Temporarily Employees data/time and attendance.
• Assist employees with understanding their pay slips, deductions and leave balances.
• Reconcile payroll accounts and resolve discrepancies or errors.

Qualifications

• Matric with Certificate/Diploma in Payroll/Business Administration.
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting, would be an advantage.
• 3-5 years relevant experience within the payroll office environment.
• Computer skills include MS Office, E Mails and other systems. Excell and Google Sheet.

“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”

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Attendant: Production – Worcester Bakery

Responsibilities

Job Overview:Ensure minimal damages and adhere to Food Safety Regulations.

• Ensure minimal damages by adhering to SOPs accordingly
• Communication with supervisors regarding an issue on shift
• Adhere to food safety regulations to minimise risk to the product
• Follow all safety regulations accordingly (PPE, working safely etc.)
• Assist in the production department as required
• Assist during breakdowns to minimise adverse impact on the shift’s output

Qualifications

• Minimum: NQF 4 or Grade 12 or similar relevant qualification
• 1-2 years of manufacturing experience

  “PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act”

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