2027 Full Time: Supply Chain Associate

PepsiCo • Plano, TX

22h • Remote

About The Position

SMILE AT WHAT’S NEXT At PepsiCo, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities. At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities. No matter your role, you'll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what's next. Nationwide Opportunities- Please Read: Just because this role looks like it's located in Purchase, NY doesn't mean it is! At PepsiCo we place interns and full-time hires in roles nationwide across both field and headquarter locations with many of these roles working in our field locations.

Functional Description: The PepsiCo Supply Chain organization provides a demanding, fast-paced opportunity in a competitive industry where growth equals opportunity and fun to accompany the challenge. Opportunities are provided through various roles in Supply Chain Planning, Strategy, Warehouse Operations, Transportation, Customer Integration, Commercialization, HQ Manufacturing & Engineering, and PepsiCo Global Template. We are looking for future leaders of the company; our Campus hires begin their career with unlimited career growth potential!

Potential Team Placements: Manufacturing, Warehouse Operations, Transportation, Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Contract Operation Planning, Transportation, Customer Integration, Center Routing Intelligence Center, And more!

What you can expect: Students are afforded opportunities for beneficial, meaningful work experience in Supply Chain.

Planning: The Supply Chain Planning team includes demand planning (DP), supply planning (SP), contracted operations (ConOps), advanced planning (AP), tactical capacity planning (TCP), and material resource planning (MRP). This team anticipates the demand for products and plans their materials and components, production, distribution, and sale. They contribute to the overall success of PepsiCo by balancing supply and demand, so sales revenue opportunities are fully exploited in a timely manner and at the lowest possible cost. These roles are highly cross-functional and require both strong technical, analytical, and critical thinking skills as well as communication and influencing skills.

Warehouse Operations: The key objectives of these teams are to manage inventory, improve warehouse productivity, and execute shipments to ensure key service metrics are met. These teams interact with various other areas of the supply chain, including demand & supply planning, transportation, customer integration, sales strategy, and finance. These roles require strong analytical, communication, and critical thinking skills.

Transportation: Partner with transport team members to ensure timely delivery of finished goods to our plants, distribution centers, and customers. This initiative encompasses many business areas including safety, DOT regulations, cost control, on-time shipments, and load and tender management including carrier contract adherence.

Customer Integration Center: Serve as a direct point of contact for PepsiCo’s customers. Associates actively partner with Warehouse Operations, Transportation, Supply Chain Planning, and Sales to ensure our customers receive flawless order fulfillment and delivery. Customer Integration roles deliver a wide range of exposures to critical skills including effective communication, influence management, data analysis, critical thinking, and process optimization.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics (other related majors will be considered)
• Involvement in at least one extracurricular activity
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Willingness to work flexible work schedules
• Ability to adapt to changes in timelines and sequences
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness to travel
• Flexibility for relocation will allow for greater advancement opportunities
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
• Graduate with bachelor's degree
• Pass a drug screen and background investigation

Responsibilities

• Anticipate the demand for products and plan their materials and components, production, distribution, and sale.
• Balance supply and demand to fully exploit sales revenue opportunities in a timely manner and at the lowest possible cost.
• Manage inventory, improve warehouse productivity, and execute shipments to ensure key service metrics are met.
• Partner with transport team members to ensure timely delivery of finished goods to our plants, distribution centers, and customers.
• Serve as a direct point of contact for PepsiCo’s customers.
• Actively partner with Warehouse Operations, Transportation, Supply Chain Planning, and Sales to ensure our customers receive flawless order fulfillment and delivery.

Benefits

• Paid time off in accordance with policy is subject to eligibility and includes vacation, holiday, sick, bereavement and parental leave
• Vacation: for eligible full-time employees, a minimum of 15 paid vacation days
• Holidays: for eligible full-time employees, the company provides 10 paid holidays annually
• Sick Leave: for eligible full- time employees, 10 days (80 hours) of paid sick leave benefits are available for absences related to non-job-related injury. Sick leave benefit will be accrued during your first year at 1 day for each month worked in that calendar year
• Bereavement Leave: In the event of a death of an immediate family member, full-time and part-time regular employees are eligible to receive up to three (3) consecutive working days with pay
• Parental Leave: for eligible employees, the company offers paid parental leave for up to 6 weeks to allow for a time of bonding with their newborn or newly adopted child
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level