Associate Manager - Sales & Operations

Role & responsibilities

• Ensure efficient, effective and comprehensive support for Beverages sales team for Trade Planning management
• Establish and Nurture relationships with stakeholders to facilitate business value for PBNA
• Quick Thinking to provide creative solutions that address stakeholders needs and concerns and should have commercial function awareness
• Assisting in delivery of planned net revenue, trade spend and MC objectives, in a manner that is consistent with the strategic direction for the business
• Becoming aware of business trends, economic conditions, customer developments, competitive activities, historical category learnings etc. to make forecast recommendations and highlight potential issues within the current Customer build
• Having the responsibility for ensuring the forecast is accurate and reflects the latest thinking on in-market execution and underlying performance trends
• Coordinate with internal execution team and Ensure that aligned events that require on-ticket pricing changes and/or off-ticket adjustments are entered into all applicable systems in a timely manner (TPM/Deal/Customer Portals)
• Manage expectations through verbal and written interactions with customer teams
• Ability to focus against speed of execution and quality of service delivery rather than achievement of SLAs

Recognize opportunities and take action to improve delivery of work and drive Business Outcomes

Preferred candidate profile

• 6+ years of experience in Sales Operations Management
• Bachelors in commerce/business administration/marketing or Finance, Masters degree is a plus
• Prior Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company experience required
• Analytical Skills: Adv Excel
• Ability to understand and translate delivery performance,
• identify opportunity & risks
• develop and implement detailed accurate forecasts
• Communication: Strong communication skills and collaboration skills
• Time Management/Organization: Solid capability to manage and prioritize schedule
• Support Systems Literacy: Computer literacy, Excel, Power Point, Word, ERT, Business Objects & SAP/ERP, willingness and ability to learn/quickly adapt to other internal support PepsiCo software systems
• Communication Skills: Communication across all formats (meetings, presentation, conference, planning session, weekly calls, direct communication with field, etc.)
• Strong Change Management Skills: Follow Up, Follow Through, Accountability, Sense of Urgency and superior customer service
• Ability to provide new ways of approaching situations and developing new efficient solutions
• Independent & motivated individual; ability to receive direction and convert into an action plan with coaching and feedback
• Develops strong relationships/partnership for overall success of the team & customer

Requires a high level of analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and great attention to detail

Please share your availability for a Face to Face interview on 11th Nov 2026.

Also do share your updated CV to apply.