Route Sales Representative - Cardiff

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 $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and have recently been voted a Top Employer for the 11th 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.
Our Field Sales Reps are one of the main factors of our success. The passion that they have for our brands and the drive to achieve success is what increases our product sales and placements across the country. They establish long term relationships with independent retailers ensuring our Snacks products such as Walkers, Doritos and many more, are always stocked in store.
We are a results-driven organisation and our expectations are high which is why we need talented, dynamic and hard-working individuals to join us. In return you’ll be given every opportunity to promote your own personal and professional development in a supportive, dynamic and people-centric organisation.
Responsibilities:You will be driving a 3.5 t vehicle and lead your own territory and look after a customer base of around 200 small independent stores. Visiting 18 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 strong time management skills.
What you will get up to:

• You will follow set journey schedules.
• You will seek new customer opportunities for your territory.
• You will provide a regular, reliable and consistent service for our customers.
• You will build relationships with your stores to help deliver our business' agenda.
• You will lead daily stock and cash processes for ordering, picking and delivering of stock.
• You will be responsible for growing defined targets across your territory.
• You will collect and unload stock from cash & carry at the beginning and at the end of the day.

Qualifications:

• Hunger and drive to succeed in a global FMCG company.
• Full, manual UK driving license as you will be driving a 3.5 t vehicle.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Incredibly self-driven personality.
• Resilience.
• Organisation skills.

Salary & Benefits:
£26,730 + £13,668 performance-based bonus scheme. Company mobile, flexible benefits package (25 days holiday + bank holiday’s with the option to buy/sell 5 more, income protection, life assurance.) pepsico pension scheme.
Why PepsiCo?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, company pension plus so much more. We pride ourselves on our superb work force. 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 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. We offer you the flexibility you need to create balance and achieve success through our ‘Work that Works’ hybrid flex working initiative. As part of our commitment to creating an inclusive culture at PepsiCo, we are open to exploring a formal flexible working arrangement for this role, subject to approval by the business that such an arrangement can be accommodated for the role. During the recruitment process, please discuss what this could look like for you.

Location: 1600 Arlington Business Park,Theale, Reading RG7

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £26,730.00-£40,398.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location