Pick 'n Pay Dc Controller Edenvale

Overview:
**We are PepsiCo**

PepsiCo is proud to be one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies. Every day, we are dedicated to bringing our mission to create more smiles with every sip and every bite to life. Our products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

PepsiCo generated more than $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. In South Africa the company’s brands include Weet-Bix, Simba, Liqui Fruit, Lay’s, SASKO and White Star.

PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go. We refresh, restore and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and Bokomo range of cereals. PepsiCo SA employs more than 13, 000 people across our three business divisions: Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages.

**Responsibilities**:
**What are we looking for?**:

- **Inventory Management **- responsible for managing inventory levels in the DC and ensuring that stock levels are maintained. Includes ensuring orders are placed for items running low on weeks cover with the customers Replenishment Planner.
- **Order Fulfilment - **Involvement in the co-ordination of fulfilment of orders - aligning recovery dates and when orders are placed. Ensuring PO’s are still valid and have not fallen off customer system. Feedback to the business for orders rejected and the reasons thereof, missed deliveries and the communication thereof.
- **Reporting - **daily report on KVI lines and days of cover and when the next order is coming in to ensure KVI lines are always well stocked.
- **Promotional activity - **a months forward view on promotional lines and adequate stock to support promotions and call out any risk SKUs that are on upcoming promotion with low stock levels and recovery after promotion has broken

**Achievement of Sales Targets**:

- Manage sales targets
- Obtain relevant sales information
- Assist with promotional plans and implementation thereof within DC
- Communicate out of stocks to relevant stakeholders regarding:

- Company out of stocks
- DC out of stocks
- Relevant production information and recovery times
- Negotiate bulk orders at DC and Key Franchise stores.

**Effective administration**:

- Provide management listing, including:

- Ranging
- De-listing
- Item numbers
- NPD listing and activation

Provide weekly reports to management on the following:

- Allocations
- Late deliveries
- Queries
- Out-of-stocks
- Service levels
- Short dated lines
- Overstocks
- Problem stores
- Ranging issues
- **
Customer and company Liaison**:

- Assist with arranging of Trade shows to ensure proper representation
- Develop and maintain effective customer relationships
- Develop and maintain effective relations with Franchise Owners & Managers
- Develop and maintain internal company relationships and co-operation
- Meet and liaise with Customer replenishers
- Meet with company KAM's and customer Buyers
- Meet with company Regional Sales Operations Managers
- Meet with 3rd party sales and merchandising agents
- Meet with Catman Managers
- **
Effective management and distribution of Company products**:

- Meet on a regular basis with DC Management Team
- Meet with Customer Buyers on a regular basis
- Supply Operational Team with timely and accurate feedback
- Manage deliveries:

- Booking slots
- Order numbers
- Co-ordination
- Tracking and feedback
- Emergency and fill in orders
- Order configuration and Truck load mix
- Liaison with Company delivery expeditors
- Follow up on picking slips.
- Ensure effective housekeeping of product categories
- Liaise with call centre
- Liaise with DC Management
- Communicate buy in objectives with3rd party Field Managers
- Resolve and escalate queries
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Effective Teamwork and self-management.**:

- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate, adapt to, and manage change as required

Demonstrate flexibility in balancing own objectives with understanding and responding to Company objectives

Qualifications:
**What will qualify you for this role?**
- 3 years related sales and merchandising experience in FMCG Environment
- Relevant Diploma at NQF level 5
- Teamwork & collaboration
- Relationship building
- Agility
- Performance and results driven
- Continuous growth and improvement
- Resilience and