Job Description

2025 PepsiCo Food Warehouse Sales Internship - Undergrad

PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to leaders on the frontline, were excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.

Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, youre invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these productswhich are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.

A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyones invited. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where youre from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, youll have the opportunity learn, develop, and grow our unique skill sets at work. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact.

Join us. Dare for Better.

Functional Description:

The PepsiCo Foods US (PFUS) Warehouse Sales Intern Program is a 10-week internship opportunity in Chicago, working on PepsiCo Foods Warehouse delivered portfolio of brands, completing projects designed for you to gain critical experiences in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. The PFUS Warehouse Sales Intern Program provides a unique opportunity to learn about multiple of PepsiCos businesses while also developing skills to be a successful sales leader.

PepsiCo provides a demanding, fast-paced environment in a competitive industry, where growth equals opportunity and fun accompanies the challenge. Does building your selling and leadership skills excite you?

What you can expect:

• Own and solve an individual business challenge with real impact to the business and your team
• Learn the PepsiCo selling foundation: use fact-based selling skills and deliver win-win solutions for both the retailer/consumer and PepsiCo.
• Use your creativity and entrepreneurial mindset to come up with a solution that would enable PepsiCo to grow volume & revenue to achieve key metrics
• Successfully interact with peers and key stakeholders to understand the situation, and game plan potential solutions to the assigned problem.
• Use your analytical skills to collect, chart, and interpret statistical data; decipher key data points to highlight and leverage as part of your solution/recommendation.
• Prepare and present a final presentation to your team, manager, and peers summarizing your internship experience, problem to solve, and recommended solution
• Collaborate with fellow interns on a group project to demonstrate your teamwork and creativity in your Shark Tank pitch to Senior Leadership

Recent intern projects have included:

As part of our summer internship program, we aim to provide an experience designed for you to gain functional knowledge of sales and an opportunity to achieve results through the completion of a real-world sales-based project. Previous Projects as examples:

• Develop a Bagged CNC expansion strategy, focused on distribution, pricing, and display that will drive revenue and market share gains for Quakers RTE business.
• Developing a tool that analyzes effectiveness of different promotion structures/price points to determine which had the highest return for the investment, etc.

Compensation & Benefits:

• The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2025 campus intern openings is $21.50 - $40.19/hour.

• Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process when determining actual starting salary for positions.

• Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable.

• We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! Our full-time positions have a comprehensive benefits package that include:

• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan .

Please view our Pay Transparency Statement

What were looking for:

• Self-starting individuals who possess the passion and drive to win.
• Resilience and adaptability to solve problems.
• Ability to discern priorities and remain organized as business needs evolve.
• Strong work ethic and heightened sense of urgency to operate successfully in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven leadership throughout your academic career (on- or off- campus).
• Previous selling and/or customer service experience (on- or off-campus; either through part time jobs, internships, academic clubs, or volunteer experiences).
• Pursuing a Degree in: Management, Business Administration, Communications, Organizational Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Professional Selling (other related majors will be considered).

Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:

• Graduate with Bachelors degree within one (1) year of internship completion
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States
• 2.75 GPA or above required
• Must be willing to relocate for entire internship period

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy .

Please view our Pay Transparency Statement

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