Activation Manager P&C, Licensed

Overview:
Work for a global FMCG company with some of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands. Be part of an exciting business where employees are recognised and career growth is supported.

To continue our success, we currently have an exciting opportunity for an Activation Manager for P&C, Licensed & AFH channels. Responsible for supporting the shopper and activation managers in executional excellence. Ensuring the delivery of retailer and POS assets across the PepsiCo snacks portfolio of brands. Supporting our GTM POS strategy via external 3rd party.

**Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Owning the activation roll out of our iconic brands:

- Working with the Shopper Marketing & Activation Managers to roll out the creative assets of our campaigns, ensuring delivery of all media assets to retail teams and point of sale (POS) into our warehouse on time.
- Being highly organised and able to hold others accountable to deliver against your timeline.
- Supporting the Shopper Marketing and Activation Managers in creation of internal selling documents and trade presenters to enable our customer teams and field sales team to execute our plans.
- Management of our POS requirements
- Working with the other shopper marketing activation executive to manage our POS requirements. Including reporting on POS usage and forecasting ordering requirements on our temp units and permanent rack solutions.
- Working with our POS supplier to maintain our POS database including ensuring all descriptions and POS specs are up to date, removing any old campaign materials and highlighting high stock / low selling items as well as low stock/fast selling items.
- Support Budget Management process
- Supporting the Shopper Marketing & Activation Managers in budget management including raising purchase orders.
- Forecast budgets in conjunction with customer team to maximise future plans
- Act As Owner to ensure best negotiated value of supplier estimates and drive productivity gains

Qualifications:
**About you**:

- Degree qualified with a minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in FMCG environment in a commercial or marketing role.
- Experience in FMCG environment and understanding of FMCG retailer dynamics.
- Proven planning and organisation skills.
- Ability to build cross functional relationships (internal and external) and work collaboratively with others to deliver business outcomes.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written).
- Results driven, with ‘can do’ attitude.

**For you**:

- We offer a competitive benefits package
- Access generous leave options (e.g. wellness, birthday, volunteer, purchase additional leave/cash out leave)
- We understand that bringing the best version of yourself to work means looking after yourself holistically. Our Health & Wellness programs support you with all dimensions of wellness
- Access learning programs for your professional development, as well as our global offerings and online courses

**About us**:
We are a progressive and people-focused business and believe our diverse workforce is the key to our success. Because we value our employees and their families, we offer an agile and flexible working environment with an emphasis on work life balance and health, as well as plenty of learning opportunities and room to grow your career.
- Recognised as a Top Employer in both Australia and New Zealand in 2021 and 2022, one of only 16 organisations globally to earn this certification.
- Recognised as an WGEA Employer of Choice for gender equality for the past 12 years and is one of the leading organisations in this space.
- Gender Tick (NZ)
- Family Friendly Certification (AU)

Pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) is the future of our organization - a strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. It is our roadmap for becoming the global leader in convenient foods and beverages and a leading actor in the transformation of the global food system.

With a large portfolio of food and beverage brands, PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand employs more than 1,600 people across ANZ at Smiths Snack Food Company, Bluebird Foods NZ and PepsiCo Beverages. With global brands like Doritos, Gatorade, and Pepsi Max, we also make some home-grown favourites such as Smith’s Chips, Red Rock Deli, Twisties, and our Bluebird NZ snack brands.

Interested? Know someone who might be? This is a great opportunity to join the PepsiCo ANZ team.

**PepsiCo’s hiring process**:

- Interview(s) and skills evaluation
- Online Assessment process
- Background checks

At PepsiCo, we believe what makes you unique, makes us better. We embrace equal opportunities for all employees. We believe that our people are our best asset and understand the importance of bringing different perspectives, different lenses and different experiences to our workplace. We are committed to