PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $65 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. Our main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throu...
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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 Payable policies and processes, ensuring 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
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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
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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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Job Overview:
- Accounts Payable Clerk – Invoice processing, Handling queries, Statement reconciliation and Payment processing.
- Invoice Processing - Large volume invoices
- Basic Knowledge of Automated invoice processing
- Process Director > Invoice management
- Daily focus on Age Analysis
- Statement reconciliations
- EFT payments – loading payment batches on SAP
- GRIR maintenance
- Resolve complex account queries timeously
- Relationship building with external and internal suppliers
Qualifications
- Diploma in Accounting
- 2-3 years accounts payable experience (Preferably in an FMCG environment)
- SAP4Hana Knowledge will be an advantage
- Strong Accounting Background
- Excel Experience
- High Accuracy
- Handle big volumes and Attention to detail
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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
- To lead the Shopper Marketing agenda for the total grains portfolio across MT and TT across all channels and key customers. Embed a shopper centric omni channel approach in customer and marketing strategy and sales execution. Delivering commercial results through collaboration with key stakeholders & departments to ensure execution of the AOP Commercial deliverables.
- Accountable for developing and implementing omnichannel marketing strategies to support business objectives & AOP targets.
- Align trade marketing plans with overall brand strategy and sales goals.
- Drive, embed and execute the E2E process within marketing, DX and the broader business
- Continuously seek opportunities to co-create initiatives with top MT and TT customers to drive specific occasions to enhance shopper engagement and drive conversion, by channel and category
- Ability to leverage precision targeting to optimize strategic shopper campaigns.
- E2E score carding and tracking
- Own booking of media logistics and budget management and reporting, ensuring strict budget Compliance
- Project and budget management with ongoing alignment to marketing
- Monitor competitor activity & conduct regular trade visits
- Management of external agencies & internal stakeholders
- Track real time retail execution performance and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Understanding and development of shopper profiles to build human centric campaigns
- Define and deliver on clear and measurable campaign KPIs
- Data Analysis, Performance Tracking & Development of PCA’s
- Lead annual planning process for grains shopper marketing in partnership with brand teams and sales.
- Development of grains brief to brief the Commercial and Operation teams on 6 weekly shopper executions
- Ad hoc support as require for marketing and commercial activations
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role :
- 3-5 Years working experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- Good understanding of FMCG Trade Dynamics and retail environments
- Experience in marketing or trade marketing within FMCG.
- Ability to analyse sales data, consumer insights, and market trends.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship management skills.
- Creative problem-solving skills and ability to execute innovative trade initiatives.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint), Nielsen, or other analytics tools.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to handle multiple initiatives.
- Proven track record of successful trade marketing campaigns and retail execution.
- Knowledge of trade channels, shopper insights, and in-store execution best practices.
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Sales Lead: Gauteng
- We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Sales Lead to take full accountability for sales performance across our Gauteng Bakeries Cluster, including Modern Trade (MT) and Traditional Trade (TT) channels. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and executing robust sales strategies that drive revenue growth, enhance customer experience, and meet or exceed Annual Operating Plan (AOP) targets. This role also involves leading and developing a high-performing sales team and managing distributor relationships to ensure operational excellence and market competitiveness.
Key Responsibilities:
Sales Strategy & Planning
- Develop and implement actionable 90-day sales plans aligned with business priorities.
- Set and cascade clear sales goals and KPIs for the cluster, ensuring alignment with SASKO’s strategic objectives.
- Conduct comprehensive market analysis and historical data review to forecast future sales trends accurately.
- Identify untapped sales potential across all cluster areas and routes.
Market Intelligence & Execution
- Lead market research initiatives to track industry trends, customer needs, and competitor activity.
- Develop and execute customer-centric strategies to increase revenue and expand market share.
- Create and maintain an active trade calendar to ensure effective promotional execution.
Performance Management
- Monitor and drive sales team performance against set KPIs.
- Ensure distributor performance is tracked, optimised, and aligned with cost and service expectations.
- Oversee sales budget management, including promotional spend and pricing strategies, ensuring commercial effectiveness.
- Business Development & Customer Relationship Management
- Acquire new business through micro-market development and strategic targeting.
- Drive customer retention and growth via loyalty programmes and tailored value propositions.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers, ensuring top-tier service and partnership growth (WEC – Win Every Customer).
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role?
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related commercial discipline is essential.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant sales experience, ideally within a unionised FMCG environment.
- At least 5 years of leadership experience, including managing geographically dispersed sales teams.
- Demonstrated expertise in customer engagement, business development, and distributor management.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Experience working with SAP or equivalent ERP systems is required.
Other Requirements
- Strong analytical thinking, commercial acumen, and a track record of exceeding revenue and volume targets.
- A collaborative leader who is passionate about people development, driving results, and growing market presence.
- Project management skills and ability to drive process improvements.
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Responsibilities
Job Overview:
Daily Inventory Management.
- Daily counting, verification and reconciliation of Finished Goods inventory at Despatch including damaged/expired stock.
- Daily verification and signing off of damaged/expired stock sold to Pig Farmers.
- Daily reconciliation of physical inventory movements between Despatch and SAP processing and resolving discrepancies if any.
- Daily reconciliation of physical inventory movements between plants (GI & GRV).
- Perform weekly and month-end stock take for the bakery and depots, investigate variances and provide reasons.
- Create physical inventory documents in SAP for the bakery and depots following the inventory management procedures and ensuring.
- Maintain stakeholder relationships (Supplying Bakeries, Despatch department, Telesales department and the Recons team).
- Communicate stock-take plans with all stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with the Inventory Management Policies and Procedures and adhere to set deadlines.
- Ensure that inventory documents are fully completed and signed by all relevant parties as per policy guidelines.
- Ensure that inventory documents are securely filed, uploaded online and easily accessible for audit purposes.
- Drive internal processes to ensure optimal customer service.
- Attend to any other Ad-Hoc, finance or inventory-related task allocated by the accountant from time to time.
- Report to the Bakery Accountant.
Qualifications
- Grade 12.
- Computer literacy essential (SAP, Microsoft Excel and Word) with a sound understanding of Excel.
- Good communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Strong administration skills.
- Extremely high organizational skills and ability to multi-task/prioritize.
- Strong sense of urgency and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to carry out procedures quickly and efficiently with minimal supervision.
- High level of attention to detail.
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Responsibilities
Job Overview:
- To run and utilize the machine according to its specifications to reach daily production targets. To maintain good GMP practices and keep machinery clean.
- Compiled mill grist & controlled product quality parameters and compiled milling and packaging plan.
- Controlled wheat intake & milling processes.
- Controlled raw material & finished stock levels & rotation.
- Optimised people, mill, machinery and equipment - also maintained the mill, machinery and equipment.
- Ensured safety, health, hygiene and pest management and managed team.
- Excel in Wheat Milling, both practically and academically.
- Production maintenance and mechanical/technical basics.
- Fault finding and adjustments to ensure product within spec.
- Maintain 6S
- Takes responsibility for safety, quality, delivery and performance on the mill.
- Understanding true efficiency and Material efficiency.
- Adhere to GMP standards.
- Adhere to safety regulations.
- Optimization of machines and equipment.
- House keeping.
- Adhere to all related procedures.
- Reporting any deviations on the machine to Miller or Head Miller/Production Manager.
Qualifications
- Matric, Technical Qualification will be advantageous.
- Computer Skills.
- Comply and adhere to quality systems (GMP, HACCP, FSSC).
- Monitor and ensure that all required documentation is completed as per standard.
- Continually seek to identify opportunities for cost saving and more effective ways of carrying out production activities.
- Analyze performance and seek ways to continually improve.
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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
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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
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Manage and administrate the Global Market Development and Access Working Group across the sectors to:
- Develop and maintain an accurate market access overview including the current Potato tariff and non-tariff market barriers within PepsiCo markets, including:
- Staying up to date with recent tariff and policy changes and any potential impacts on the business; as well as
- High-priority macro policy/political activities and events that could impact our business.
- 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.
- Manage special projects intended to:
- Provide market access solutions for commercial and seed volumes; and
- Improve understanding of global market supply dynamics and commercial modeling.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
- Own the end-to-end sales administration engine for the bakery: lead the tele sales team, ensure 100% accurate order capture, finalize the daily production order on time, maintain robust administrative controls, and safeguard master data quality in the DRM system—while producing and circulating clear sales reports (daily, weekly, monthly) that support informed decisions across Sales, Production, and Distribution
Accountabilities:
- Telesales & Order Management
- Lead, schedule, and coach the tele sales team; run daily huddles aligned to service targets and order cut-off times.Ensure all customer orders, changes, and cancellations are captured accurately and timeously. Validate pricing, discounts, pack sizes, delivery days, and route allocations before order release. Resolve order queries and service issues; escalate demand spikes or short-supply risks early.
- Production Order Finalization
- Reconcile the final order vs. forecast and capacity; lock and release the production order by cut-off.Communicate final mix/volume changes to Production, Dispatch, and Distribution. Track variances (forecast vs. actual; plan vs. bake; bake vs. load) and initiate corrective actions.
- Controls, Governance & Audit Readiness
- Enforces controls on pricing/discount approvals, order amendments, returns/credits, and document completeness. Maintain audit-ready records (deal sheets, approvals, change logs, return notes) and run weekly control checks. Monitor credit risk flags (e.g., stop supply lists) and ensure compliance with company policy.
Master Data Management (DRM)
- Own customer, IDC customer route/day, delivery frequency, and trading-term master data in DRM. Prevent duplicates and stale data; run scheduled integrity checks and exception reports. Train the team on DRM standards and serve as first-line support for DRM issues, escalating to VSC where needed.
Reporting & Analytics (Daily / Weekly / Monthly)
- Build, maintain, and automate (where possible) a reporting pack covering:- Daily: Orders vs. capacity, order accuracy %, cut-off compliance, bake plan vs. dispatch, service level/hit-rate, urgent variances, major returns/spoils flags.- Weekly: Volume by brand/pack/route, price/discount utilization, customer gains/losses, returns/spoils trends, service gaps, depot/IDC performance, market activities.- Monthly: Sales vs. target, mix and margin analysis, promo performance, customer growth/churn, control exceptions, DRM data quality scorecard. Distribute reports to Sales, Production, Distribution, Finance, and Leadership per cadence. Proactively highlight risks/opportunities and recommend actions.
People Leadership
- Set clear KPIs, run coaching and side-by-side call reviews, and conduct formal performance reviews. Build bench strength (cross-training on routes, DRM, reporting); manage attendance and shift coverage. Embed a culture of accuracy, urgency, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Interface daily with Production Planning, Dispatch, Distribution, Finance, DRM, and Depot Managers. Communicate supply constraints, substitutions, recovery plans to Sales and key customers.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Order accuracy % (first-time-right), order amendment rate, cut-off compliance %.• Service level/hit-rate %, on-time order processing.• Production order released on time (daily), plan vs. bake variance, bake vs. dispatch variance.• Pricing/discount exceptions resolved within SLA, valid approvals on file.• DRM data integrity score and age of open fixes.• Report timeliness and defect rate.• Tele sales QA score, coaching compliance, absenteeism within threshold.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- 3-year Business / Commercial Tertiary qualification
- 3 years working experience in FMCG environment, with 1 year in a selling role / selling experience.
- Minimum 1 year experience operating a vehicle..
- Valid Code 10 driver's license
- Valid Public Drivers Permit
- Certified Defensive Driver Certification
Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma/Degree in Business Administration, Sales Management, Supply Chain, or related.
- 3–5 years’ sales admin/tele sales/order management experience (FMCG/bakery preferred).
- 1–2 years’ supervisory experience leading teams in a high-volume environment.
- Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, basic formulas; Power Query/Power BI advantageous).
- Experience with DRM and ERP (SAP) and telephony/CRM tools.
Technical & Behavioural Competencies
- Technical: Order management, DRM/master data, reporting & analytics, control frameworks, basic forecasting.
- Behavioural: Detail-driven, decisive under pressure, strong communicator, stakeholder savvy, continuous improvement mindset, integrity and compliance orientation, coaching leadership style
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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
- Oversees the accounting operations of the unit, ensuring adherence to established financial practices and policies. Coordinates with the unit for budget preparation and financial reporting. Additional responsibilities include conducting internal audits, facilitating training, managing master data, overseeing financial process controls, and monitoring authorisation controls.
Accountabilities:
- Analyse and report on financial performance against benchmarks and procedures
- Manage working capital and plan, co-ordinate & compile annual ops & capital budgets
- Verify monthly income, balance sheet & cash flow statements and plan, co-ordinate & compile monthly reports
- Develop unit financial procedures and train and manage employees on financial systems, policies & procedures
- Manage internal financial authorisations, systems and audits
- Manage performance and talent of own team
- Maintain functional and legal framework.
- Implement best practices and utilize SAP functionality.
- Maintain interdepartmental relationships and encourage continuous improvements.
- Manage debtors in excess of R25 million
- Control of inventory and stock write off
- Weekly forecast and analyzing of sales forecast
- Management of manpower budgets and expenses
- Accounting procedures are performed on-time, accurate, and within standards
- Debtors and creditors are managed timeously & within standards
- Unit’s management information is on-time, accurate, and within standards
- Monthly reports are on-time, accurate, and within standards
- Audit recommendations and fraud are mitigated by planned controls
- Functional strategy (1-3 years) blended in with and support overall business strategy
- Supporting strategic plan and AOP development, including deck analysis and deck preparation
- Team strength, performance & energy matched strategic requirements.
- Actively participate and coordinate employee engagement initiatives, talent management and recognition for the Finance Team.
- Liaising with and capacitating of 3rd parties such as customers, suppliers, agents etc.
- Support the Bakery Team to manage budgets in an effective and efficient manner.
- Driving and ensuring compliance with PepsiCo Global standards and policies
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- University degree, with Professional accounting qualification recommended
- Experienced accounting background (preferably 6 years and above)
- Knowledge of beverage business or comparable FMCG/retail businesses
- Experience of PepsiCo Reporting, Planning and Control processes
- 6 years financial experience in FMCG environment
- Computer literacy (MS Advanced Excel / Word / SAP / SAP Business Intelligence Portal)
- Ability to work under pressure, accurately and independently
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Responsibilities
Core Commercial Goals:
- To co-create and execute customer & shopper centric solutions for the entire PepsiCo GRAINS & BAKERIES portfolio across both MT & TT Channels, which will enable growth acceleration for PepsiCo, winning versus competition and be seen as a trusted advisor by customers as per Advantage Monitor (TAG) priorities.
- To create and enable implementation of toolkits for key strategic priorities, namely Category Visions, PERFECT STORE shopper principles, Category Development Fund (CDF), data and digitization.
- Overall, the role will enable the elevation of standards from ‘foundational’ to ‘good’ and ultimately to ‘best-in-class’.
Accountabilities:
- Lead a team of Category Managers for GRAIN & BAKERIES aligning strategy Category growth pillars to drive shopper loyalty & market share.
- Deliver tactics to drive conversion into the category, basket size, PO1.
- Drive category strategy that delivers against the business unit must win battles.
- Build trusted advisor for GRAINS & BAKERIES across MT & TT customers, demonstrating knowledge and strategic thinking and alignment that ensures Win-Win for both PEP and Retailer across key shopper decisions.
- Analyse multiple data sets to provide category insight on drivers of performance of both the overall GRAINS & BAKERIES category and top MT & TT customers, providing benchmarking, strategies and potential tactics to capitalise on mutually beneficial growth opportunities.
- Create customer centric category visions leveraging the DX operating model (Identify, Engage, Convert, Optimize) to gain alignment and support from stakeholders, both internally and externally to enable Category Captaincy and long-term partnership.
- Lead Category Reviews end to end to achieve category growth for MT & TT customers, while ensuring PepsiCo wins versus competitor.
- Support customers on long term strategy reviews with end-to-end connected plans that incorporate shopper insights, category management and shopper marketing suite.
- Secure trusted advisor status by demonstrating PepsiCo's insight and thinking and drive long term win-win solutions for PepsiCo and the customer through shopper and channel centric strategies and plans.
Qualifications
- Tertiary Qualification in a Commercial, Business or Statistical field coupled with previous exposure to FMCG environment (Understanding of the retailer landscape, and instore challenges) and at least 3 years’ experience across data analysis, strategy creation, category management.
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Problem-solving skills
- Interpersonal and influencing skills
- Teamworking skills
- Written and verbal communication skills to take others with and act on asks
- A methodical and logical approach
- The ability to plan work and meet tight deadlines
- A good level of mathematical ability
- The ability to analyse, model and interpret data
- Advanced customer and internal sales data experience
- Experience in marketing and/or Category Management
- Advanced knowledge of the end to end GTM value chain from production to shelf – including optimization
- Results orientated
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What we’re looking for:
- This individual will act as the Finance Lead for the KZN Cluster, providing strategic finance business partnering and oversight of the site finance function. The individual ensures the sound financial health while supporting operational efficiency and long-term growth of the KZN Cluster.
Accountabilities:
- Provide leadership in the development for the continuous evaluation of short and long-term strategic financial objectives for the Bakeries KZN Cluster
- Collaborate with Cluster Lead, Sales & NRM to deliver appropriate Pricing, Promo, D&A strategy for KZN Cluster
- Lead the overall planning process, including long term strategic plan, Annual Operating Plan and monthly forecasts for KZN Cluster
- Direct and oversee all aspects of the KZN Site Finance operations, including Supply Chain Finance (Make & Move)
- Provide recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities
- Lead Digital transformation projects for KZN Cluster – stabilizing SAP S4 environment, Mosaic (Digital planning tool), SAP Fieldglass (temp labour tool)
- Provide financial leadership and guidance to KZN site finance teams, including key input to recruitment, objective setting, performance reviews and capability build
- Drive end to end productivity agenda for KZN Cluster (Make, Move, Sell, G&A, Procurement)
- Maintain a sound control environment, through the review and timeous completion of Enterprise Controls
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- Degree in Business Management / Finance
- CA (SA)/ CIMA Advantageous
- Knowledgeable in the relevant areas of Finance
- 7 years experience in finance at managerial level within FMCG industry
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Responsibilities
Job Overview:
- To supervise the performance and maintenance of the activities of the van sales representatives in order to achieve maximum profitability and growth in accordance with organisation plans.
- Conduct Gate Meetings before Market daily
- Focus agenda in terms of Performance MTD, Execution and Discipline KPI’s
- Coaching, Mentoring and Motivation of Van Sales Representatives
- 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
- Formulate and execute effective action plans to drive 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
- 3-year Business/Commercial Tertiary Qualification or equivalent
- 3 year working experience in FMCG environment, with 1 year in a selling role/selling experience
- Valid driver’s license
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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
- To lead the Shopper Marketing agenda for the total grains portfolio across MT and TT across all channels and key customers. Embed a shopper centric omni channel approach in customer and marketing strategy and sales execution. Delivering commercial results through collaboration with key stakeholders & departments to ensure execution of the AOP Commercial deliverables.
- Accountable for developing and implementing omnichannel marketing strategies to support business objectives & AOP targets.
- Align trade marketing plans with overall brand strategy and sales goals.
- Drive, embed and execute the E2E process within marketing, DX and the broader business
- Continuously seek opportunities to co-create initiatives with top MT and TT customers to drive specific occasions to enhance shopper engagement and drive conversion, by channel and category
- Ability to leverage precision targeting to optimize strategic shopper campaigns.
- E2E score carding and tracking
- Own booking of media logistics and budget management and reporting, ensuring strict budget Compliance
- Project and budget management with ongoing alignment to marketing
- Monitor competitor activity & conduct regular trade visits
- Management of external agencies & internal stakeholders
- Track real time retail execution performance and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Understanding and development of shopper profiles to build human centric campaigns
- Define and deliver on clear and measurable campaign KPIs
- Data Analysis, Performance Tracking & Development of PCA’s
- Lead annual planning process for grains shopper marketing in partnership with brand teams and sales.
- Development of grains brief to brief the Commercial and Operation teams on 6 weekly shopper executions
- Ad hoc support as require for marketing and commercial activations
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- 3-5 Years working experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- Good understanding of FMCG Trade Dynamics and retail environments
- Experience in marketing or trade marketing within FMCG.
- Ability to analyse sales data, consumer insights, and market trends.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and relationship management skills.
- Creative problem-solving skills and ability to execute innovative trade initiatives.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint), Nielsen, or other analytics tools.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to handle multiple initiatives.
- Proven track record of successful trade marketing campaigns and retail execution.
- Knowledge of trade channels, shopper insights, and in-store execution best practices.
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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
- Own the end-to-end sales administration engine for the bakery: lead the tele sales team, ensure 100% accurate order capture, finalize the daily production order on time, maintain robust administrative controls, and safeguard master data quality in the DRM system—while producing and circulating clear sales reports (daily, weekly, monthly) that support informed decisions across Sales, Production, and Distribution
Accountabilities:
- Telesales & Order Management
- Lead, schedule, and coach the tele sales team; run daily huddles aligned to service targets and order cut-off times. Ensure all customer orders, changes, and cancellations are captured accurately and timeously. Validate pricing, discounts, pack sizes, delivery days, and route allocations before order release. Resolve order queries and service issues; escalate demand spikes or short-supply risks early.
Production Order Finalization
- Reconcile the final order vs. forecast and capacity; lock and release the production order by cut-off.Communicate final mix/volume changes to Production, Dispatch, and Distribution. Track variances (forecast vs. actual; plan vs. bake; bake vs. load) and initiate corrective actions.
- Controls, Governance & Audit Readiness
- Enforces controls on pricing/discount approvals, order amendments, returns/credits, and document completeness. Maintain audit-ready records (deal sheets, approvals, change logs, return notes) and run weekly control checks. Monitor credit risk flags (e.g., stop supply lists) and ensure compliance with company policy.
- Master Data Management (DRM)
- Own customer, IDC customer route/day, delivery frequency, and trading-term master data in DRM. Prevent duplicates and stale data; run scheduled integrity checks and exception reports. Train the team on DRM standards and serve as first-line support for DRM issues, escalating to VSC where needed.
Reporting & Analytics (Daily / Weekly / Monthly)
- Build, maintain, and automate (where possible) a reporting pack covering:- Daily: Orders vs. capacity, order accuracy %, cut-off compliance, bake plan vs. dispatch, service level/hit-rate, urgent variances, major returns/spoils flags.- Weekly: Volume by brand/pack/route, price/discount utilization, customer gains/losses, returns/spoils trends, service gaps, depot/IDC performance, market activities.- Monthly: Sales vs. target, mix and margin analysis, promo performance, customer growth/churn, control exceptions, DRM data quality scorecard. Distribute reports to Sales, Production, Distribution, Finance, and Leadership per cadence. Proactively highlight risks/opportunities and recommend actions.
People Leadership
- Set clear KPIs, run coaching and side-by-side call reviews, and conduct formal performance reviews. Build bench strength (cross-training on routes, DRM, reporting); manage attendance and shift coverage.Embed a culture of accuracy, urgency, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Interface daily with Production Planning, Dispatch, Distribution, Finance, DRM, and Depot Managers. Communicate supply constraints, substitutions, recovery plans to Sales and key customers.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Order accuracy % (first-time-right), order amendment rate, cut-off compliance %.• Service level/hit-rate %, on-time order processing.• Production order released on time (daily), plan vs. bake variance, bake vs. dispatch variance.• Pricing/discount exceptions resolved within SLA, valid approvals on file.• DRM data integrity score and age of open fixes.• Report timeliness and defect rate.• Tele sales QA score, coaching compliance, absenteeism within threshold.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- 3-year Business / Commercial Tertiary qualification
- 3 years working experience in FMCG environment, with 1 year in a selling role / selling experience.
- Minimum 1 year experience operating a vehicle..
- Valid Code 10 driver's license
- Valid Public Drivers Permit
- Certified Defensive Driver Certification
Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma/Degree in Business Administration, Sales Management, Supply Chain, or related.
- 3–5 years’ sales admin/tele sales/order management experience (FMCG/bakery preferred).
- 1–2 years’ supervisory experience leading teams in a high-volume environment.
- Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, basic formulas; Power Query/Power BI advantageous).
- Experience with DRM and ERP (SAP) and telephony/CRM tools.
Technical & Behavioural Competencies
- Technical: Order management, DRM/master data, reporting & analytics, control frameworks, basic forecasting.
- Behavioural: Detail-driven, decisive under pressure, strong communicator, stakeholder savvy, continuous improvement mindset, integrity and compliance orientation, coaching leadership style
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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.
- To make full use of value and productivity opportunities, the global agriculture office will utilize a data driven approach to evaluate global potato spend. Thereby developing a single source of truth for global potato spend with agreed segmentation across commodity and manufacturing cost components. This will support the business to identify global value opportunities and to measure the cause of change and impact consistently across markets.
Accountabilities
- Administrate the GAO Value Realization Working Group (VR WG) including the organizing of meetings, capturing, and follow-up of actions. The primary aim of the VR WG is to articulate tested, agro productivity (compressible spend and value engineering) and other value projects across the Global Value Focus Areas (Variety, Seed, Production Practices, Post-Harvest Practices and Commercialization), including the financial assumptions; and to support the ‘Lift and Shift’ of these projects across suitable global markets.
- Develop, maintain, and analyze a Global Potato Gross Commodity Indexing model to benchmark global input cost models and investigate value opportunities.
- Administrate the GAO Value Realization Playbook ensuring that it is up to date and that all stakeholders are updated on new value projects that become available for lift and shift.
- Update and administrate progress against GAO Value Realization Focus Area Targets that span across Variety-, Seed-, Production-, Post-Harvest- and Commercialization optimisation. Ensuring that projects and assumptions are up to date and aligned with all the relevant stakeholders.
- Assist with the ongoing development and maintenance of an End-2-End Potato Value Chain Model across priority markets.
- Support the harmonization and standardization of consistent cost measures and definitions across sectors for raw materials and manufacturing costs; enabled through automated digital platforms and systems interoperable through global ERP systems.
- Maintain a Global Agriculture Productivity overview as per sector reported productivity in PowerSteering and provided analysis where needed.
- Develop and maintain GAO commercial global overview database including but not limited to, commercial agreement terms (pay for performance), production volumes, production areas, raw material costs, potato manufacturing costs, Storage and Freight costs and foreign exchange impacts.
- Support the GAO digitization team with the automation of data capturing and KPI tracking across priority indicators. Managed through the development and implementation of digital tools and systems to support improved process such as pay for performance contracting and automated farm management system benchmarking.
- Support Sectors and BU’s with financial assumption and impact analysis of value realization opportunities.
- Assist with the development and Ag Value Realization and Productivity training including LSS across sectors.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- Candidates for this role should have a procurement or Agri business or sciences degree, master’s or higher preferred, and more than 5 years of relevant experience.
- Proven working experience across relevant industry.
- Proven experience with financial modeling and tracking.
- Strong with data analytics and digital solutions.
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.
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Job Overview:A qualified Artisan with an Electrical Trade Certificate.
- Electrical Maintenance and Repairs
- Fit fuse boxes, circuits and wiring systems and equipment
- Inspect and test fused boxes, circuits, wiring systems and equipment
- Repair fused boxes circuits and wiring systems and equipment
- Set Programmable Logical Circuits (PLC's)
- Certify electrical installations
- Personal Growth and Leadership
- Achieve individual and team goals
- Improve personal effectiveness
- Transfer knowledge and skills
- Systems, Procedures and Practices
- Organise own work
- Apply practices, policies, standards, procedures and methods
- Resolve work area problems
- Report progress
- Adhere to legal requirements
- Relationship Results
- Maintain internal stakeholder relations, incl. Shop Stewards
- Satisfied “Customers”
- Maintain Manager and Peer relationships
- Communicate work related information
- Continuous Improvement
- Initiate continuous improvement
Qualifications
- NTC/Technical Trade Certificate
- Grade 12
- 4-5 years relevant experience within the manufacturing environment
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Planning, organising and control
- Housekeeping
- Technical knowledge
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Responsibilities
Job Overview:
- This role provides essential support to the Accounts Payable team by ensuring accurate invoice processing, timely EFT releases and effective query management. It also involves preparing AP reports and investigating GRIR discrepancies to maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records.
- Responsible for providing accounts payable services to vendors and internal stakeholders.
- Investigates, tracks and reports all invoices and processes them for payment.
- Check account balances and reconciles to vendor statements
- Follows-up on invoice/payment discrepancies and control vendor master data. Ensures timely and accurate payment of invoices
- Report on overdue accounts status
- Report on invalid liabilities impacting the P&L (GRIR)
- Sends follow-up inquiries on short paid invoices to vendors
Qualifications
- Matric
- National Diploma/Degree in a Finance related field
- MS Office
- Sap experience preferred
- 2-3 Years’ experience in Accounts Payable
- Work in a pressurised environment
- Deadline driven
- Quick learner and work efficiently
- Organised and the ability to prioritise
- Attention to detail
- Accuracy and completeness
- Time management
- Maintain a solid filing system
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