Vacancies

What is Field Sales?

Relentless focus on delivery and customer experience in store is at the heart of everything we do! As we strive to be the best in our market, we deliver leading tools & technology to our field sales teams whilst investing in our people so that you can genuinely drive your personal career development - and our business! You will work within a defined sales area with allocated customers. The customers you will be interacting with could include everything from small independent convenience stores, national high street names, large supermarkets, licensed bars, restaurants & cafes, educational establishments, independent cash & carry’s and wholesalers. You will also work with the wider team to deliver sales targets by strengthening existing relationships and creating new business.

What skills do you need to work in Field Sales?

• Resilience – in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.

• Customer Service - demonstrate excellent customer service and inter-personal skills to create first class customer relationships

• Plan - show that you can plan & prioritise for success

• Solutions - take solution-focused approaches to problems

• Positive - show that you have an adaptable & positive mindset to change & customer needs

• Excellent interpersonal skills; listening and caring

• A real ability to effectively communicate and build rapport with both customers and work colleagues

• A passion to thrive and seek opportunities in a customer service/retail sales industry

• An adaptable and flexible approach to meet customers’ needs

What opportunities do you have?

There are a number of ways to join our Field Sales team:

Merchandiser

You will be given a specific territory to increase the visibility and availability of our iconic brands by visiting grocery stores on a daily and weekly basis. You will be able to strengthen and develop customer relationships by collaborating with both your team colleagues and in store colleagues to achieve great results. Sales Representative Reporting into the Sales Manager you will deliver sales targets with-in an existing customer base by strengthening existing relationships and creating new business opportunities whilst becoming an expert in the soft drink category. The customers you will be interacting with daily will vary from small independent convenience stores to licensed bars, restaurants, cafes and educational establishments.

Account Executive

Reporting into the Sales Manager as A Field Based Accounts Executive you will deliver sales targets with-in an existing customer base by strengthening existing relationships and becoming an expert in the soft drink category. The customers you will be interacting with daily will vary de-pending on the exact vacancy you apply for, however could include everything from small independent convenience stores to national high street names or large supermarkets, licensed bars, restaurants & cafes, educational establishments, independent cash & carry’s and wholesalers.

Team Leader, Merchandising

Reporting into the Senior Manager, the Team Leader will coach and develop individuals to achieve their individual annual targets. Completing and monitoring performance appraisals, Performance development plans and Talent development reviews. Helping to drive links between the Account Executives and the merchandisers in the Grocery channel, to influence stores to effect positive change, and supporting the wider Grocery team in tactical activities in line with national and regional direction.

Sales Manager

Our Sales Managers each lead a team, inspiring and coaching them to deliver on our challenging sales and distribution targets. All achieved by strengthening existing customer relationships and developing the team’s capabilities to become experts in the soft drink category. As one of our Sales Managers, you will play a pivotal role in coaching and mentoring the team to deliver performance and add value to the customer. You will responsible for embedding and delivering structured weekly meetings and training with a high energy, inspiring, fresh and creative approach. You will use wider commercial plans and data to pull insights, set team direction and identify opportunities

What qualifications do I need?

• Valid UK Driving License, business insurance & use of your own car (merchandiser)

• Eligibility to work in the UK

• Some roles will require lifting and handling of stock, full manual handling training will be provided

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What is HR?

Here at CCEP our HR department covers the whole employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to employee relations and payroll. Our shared services team work together to help employees throughout all stages of their career.

What skills do you need to work in HR?

• Communication

• Prioritise tasks

• Cross- functional teams

• Able to build rapport

• Influencing

What opportunities do you have?

There are a number of ways to join our HR team:

HR Administrator

The HR Administrator is part of the HR shared services team. The HR Administrator is the first point of contact for the resolution of HR queries and requests that are received via phone, email, employee interaction centre, fax and post using scripts, job aids and FAQ's within SLA's. In addition, the HR Administrator is responsible for processing country specific HR Back Office Administration (opening daily post, filing of relevant paperwork, retrieval of documentation in line with requests, cleansing and archiving of Personnel Files) within SLA's around speed, accuracy and quality using templates, guidelines and standard procedures. The role will work with technical tools such as Salesforce (case management system), Success factors and telephony. The role might also include project work, coaching and training of team members and translation.

HR Coordinator

To be successful in this role you ideally have some experience as an HR Generalist, but most importantly, your communication skills are outstanding. You have very strong relationship building, coaching, and influencing skills, which enable you to liaise and influence at different levels of the organization. You enjoy giving presentations and to be customer-facing. Customer orientation, continuous improvement and team spirit are key values for you.

Talent Acquisition

Based at our Uxbridge Head Office this role will support senior stakeholders, collaborating with them to be viewed as subject matter expert on all things recruitment! Critical to success in this role will be the ability to take a holistic view to the recruiting needs of the business, building long-term strategies to deliver successful outcomes for CCEP. This role covers end to end recruitment, from the advertising of the vacancy to the offer and onboarding.

HR Business Partner

The role is responsible for developing effective relationships and working with managers to develop solutions and interventions to meet their functional needs, by contributing the delivery of the overall business goals through the implementation of HR Strategic Plans. The role will provide advice, guidance, direction and consultative services regarding people related programs to ensure that the organization’s current and future human resource requirements are met, and that employees are recruited, managed, organized, trained, evaluated and rewarded in accordance with organization’s human resource strategy. The HRBP works in conjunction with HR Services and Centre’s of Excellence (COE’s) to provide the business with an effective service, based on a deep understanding of business environment, strategy and people management implications. Payroll You will be internal customer facing working closely with managers, employees and the rest of the HR community. You will be working in an exciting and pace driven environment with many opportunities for you to be solution oriented and to drive change for GB. The role of Payroll Specialist is perfect for someone looking to take the next steps in their payroll career. You will ensure the payroll runs accurately and on time.

What qualifications do I need?

• Eligibility to work in the UK

• Desirable HR Qualification or HR Experience

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What is Supply Chain?

Our supply chain function is the heart of the production, manufacturing and distribution of our products, from the purchase of ingredients and packaging to manufacturing and distribution to our customers. Our machines can produce over 100,000 bottles an hour. We also have teams who look after the Quality of our product and ensure its safe for everyone to enjoy! Coca-Cola and many of our other soft drinks start life as a base syrup. Very few people know the secret recipe of a Coke and to protect it, the syrup arrives at our GB factories in two parts, which need to be mixed in the right proportions. Once mixed, we dilute the syrup with water and add sugar or sweetener to it. If it’s sparkling, we add carbon dioxide to give the fizz, and then fill and package bottles or cans on automated production lines ready to be delivered to our customers. We are focused on ensuring we have the manufacturing and distribution capacity to meet our customer requirements, and also driving operations performance through improving efficiency and effectiveness, and sharing and executing best practice.

What skills do you need to work in Supply Chain?

• Strong communication skills

• Good eye for detail

• Ability to work under pressure and problem solve

• Able to work as part of a team or alone, with little supervision

• Adaptable and flexible to change

What opportunities do you have?

There are a number of ways to join our Supply Chain team:

Operator Technician

Reporting into a Shift Manager working as part of our production team to safely operate and maintain machinery and production lines. Carrying out routine machine maintenance and basic repairs and recording quality checks. Using route cause analysis to diagnose and escalate any faults and supporting Engineers to improve line reliability. The operator technicians need to uphold Food Safety and Health and Safety Regulations and requires elements of manual handling.

Warehouse

Our Distribution Centres are 24/7 operations and consist of Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) warehouses holding anything between 15,000 to 30,000 pallets of stock. Our largest site, Wakefield, also houses a block-stacked conventional warehouse holding an additional 20,000 pallets. Inbound vehicles also arrive from our other factory sites with palletised goods which must be put away promptly and safely into the ASRS and accurately recorded. Our Warehouse teams have to promptly and safely stack away goods; record and locate stock using SAP and Locator stock management systems and assemble orders ready for dispatch to our customers.

Material Planning

You will be a part of the GB Planning & Commercialisation Department which includes: Commercialisation, Demand Planning, Production Planning, Materials Planning, Allocation and Deployment. You will be based in the heart of our operations, at the Corporate Head Office in Uxbridge, London. The materials that the team manage include all components required to enable finished goods production of Coca Cola soft drinks e.g. glass bottles, resin, pallets, labels, film, cans and sugar. The team are responsible for ensuring the continuous supply of all materials (primary, secondary and tertiary) into six manufacturing sites across the UK.

Production Planning

You will be a part of the GB Planning & Commercialisation Department which includes: Commercialisation, Demand Planning, Production Planning, Materials Planning, Allocation and Deployment. You will be based in the heart of our operations, at the Corporate Head Office in Uxbridge, London. The Production Planning team are responsible for the creation and execution of the production plans of our six manufacturing sites. The team are responsible for ensuring that we maintain optimal stock levels to deliver the supply plan to our retailers across the UK.

Demand Planning

You will be a part of the GB Planning & Commercialisation Department which includes: Commercialisation, Demand Planning, Production Planning, Materials Planning, Allocation and Deployment. You will be based in the heart of our operations, at the Corporate Head Office in Uxbridge, London. The Demand Planning Team are responsible for delivering the annual Business Plan volumes to enable the growth of CCEP. As a Demand Planner you will be responsible for the forcast of a specific group of SKUs and customers across the UK.

Customer Logistics & Transport Roles

Our Nottingham Customer Logistics Centre are responsible for order taking, delivery and building strong collaborative supply chain relationships with our customers including grocery retailers, wholesalers, retails outlets and brewers in Great Britain. There are 2 pillars within the Logistics Centre which are Customer Service and Transport who all work in partnership to drive the right service and supply chain efficiencies for our business and our customers. Our Logistics team in Nottingham are a high performing, fast paced, engaged and customer centric team that prides itself on being our customers preferred supplier. Guided by our shared values we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We are passionate about developing people within our teams and as such are famous for nurturing talent and exporting them to other areas of the business.

QESH

You will be part of the Quality, Environment, Safety & Health (QESH) team. This team performs a governance role, ensuring that we are in line with legal and Coca-Cola requirements. Your role will also support the wider QESH team in delivery of business wide activities, such as auditing, training, coaching and communication.

What qualifications do I need?

• Eligibility to work in the UK

• Some roles will require lifting and handling of stock, full manual handling training will be provided

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What is Finance?

Our Finance teams are a support to multiple areas of the business, including our Sales/Marketing and Supply chain functions. The teams analyses and interprets data for different business units to help with the decision making and supports the business achieve everything from the day to day commercials to executing its long term strategic vision and goals.

What skills do you need to work in Finance?

• Analytical

• Business partnering

• Experience using financial systems eg. SAP

• Stakeholder management

What opportunities do you have?

There are a number of ways to join our Finance team, some examples below:

Professional – Finance Analyst

Our Finance Analysts provide analytical support and insight to the BU Planning Performance Management (PPM) Finance team and BU Sales team around the CMA investments, and perform period end responsibilities (journals, reporting & reconciliations). The role requires them to be a key business partner to the Channel Finance team by providing information to assist in their analytical review of P&L impact, trend analysis and forecasting. Our Finance Analysts also seek to advise Sales around process compliance and support, query resolution and training around CMA end-to-end processes. There is a lot of liaison with the SSC, and a requirement to travel a few times a year. During this period, a number of our Professional level staff also study CIMA, ACA, ACCA or similar with CCEP’s fantastic study-support programme.

Manager, PPM Supply Chain Logistics

The Manager provides support and operational business partnering in respect of Great Britain Business Unit Warehouse and Logistics teams. Their key responsibilities include providing analysis, insights and finance support during daily operations including period close cost centre management support, key project planning and implementation and through the annual business planning and forecasting cycles. This role also requires some travel, primarily around the Warehouse network.

Senior Manager, FP&A

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team holds a complete picture of the GB business and is the right place for anyone with a desire to understand how this complex machine works for its shareholders. Alongside managing an agenda of continuous change, the FP&A department is accountable for running the period end process, providing management information to decision-makers, and leading the delivery of the annual budget and monthly forecasts. Working closely with Channel Finance, Marketing Finance and Supply Chain Finance, their key accountabilities are to describe the “how” and explain the “why” of our business performance to the GB Leadership Team, and support them to plot the best course for the future. The GB CFO and their Finance Leadership team, along with Group Finance are key stakeholders for the Senior Manager. As good business planning requires knowledge of the competition, they are also the source of competitor analysis for the GB Leadership Team.

Associate Director, Transformation and M&A

The Associate Director and the team are responsible for business partnering the Business Transformation Office (BTO) who are managing and co-ordinating ongoing and future transformation programmes. With the significant transformation agenda, the Associate Director works closely with the BTO to create and support the following:

• Execution of a strong and systematic management of project value, including business case development and sign off.

• Value measurement & tracking of costs and savings during execution.

• Value embedment in business results & plans.

This role also business partners the Corporate and Business Development team in their delivery of non-organic growth agenda through potential Mergers & Acquisition activity and CCEP Ventures.

What qualifications do I need?

• Eligibility to work in the UK

• Most roles may require a part qualified or fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA.)

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What is Procurement?

Procurement is the process of finding and agreeing to terms and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. Within CCEP, we have professionals spread across direct (e.g. raw materials) and indirect (e.g. computers) procurement. The team are spread across the EU, negotiating contracts that are key to CCEP’s continued success.

What skills do you need to work in Procurement?

- Communication

- Negotiation

- Stakeholder management

- Comfortable with regular travel

What opportunities do you have?

There are a number of ways to join our Procurement team:

Procurement Manager

As a Procurement Manager, you will have ownership of a key category/ sub category and responsibility for developing and executing category strategies in collaboration with internal stakeholders. The main objectives are to deliver exceptional levels of customer service through third party logistics providers warehousing solutions and added value services, pallet supply service and technology enablement- optimising procurement costs and processes as well as to ensure quality and security of supply for all materials and services purchased in the category using the Total Cost of Ownership approach. Furthermore, this position is responsible to drive Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability developments and improvements through the supply base, supporting CCEP goals, and to identify and deliver category projects to drive cost and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability benefits.

Associate Director, Procurement

The role will support category managers and the overall procurement team in delivering regular market forecasts for the categories with embedded commodities exposures. Ensure all internal and external audit requirements are met at all times whilst liaising with Treasury and Risk on a continuous basis, as well as providing regular information updates and support to internal partners and stakeholders such as Supply Chain Finance team, Accounting, and Investor Relations department. Contributing as a member of the overall Procurement Team on various initiatives and with accomplishing overall Procurement Objectives

Director, Procurement

Lead the Corporate category procurement teams to drive maximum synergies on overall purchasing costs without compromising on quality & reliability of supply. Establish a procurement business partner approach via excellent stakeholder management (Directors are ideally based at the respective BU to maximise stakeholder engagement via close proximity) Align category strategies to overall procurement strategy ensuring each category manager executes procurement initiatives using the 7-Step Sourcing Process. Enhance and manage strategic supplier relationships as well as managing internal and supplier performance and compliance.

What qualifications do I need?

• Eligibility to work in the UK

• CIPS or similar can be beneficial, but not essential.

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What is Commercial Development?

The commercial development function stretches across a broad range of roles. From the national accounts teams who collaborate with our customers to create joint business plans, to our customer marketing teams who implement shopper activations within our customers stores. Each team work closely together to provide world-class solutions that are suitable for CCEP, the customer and the consumer.

What skills do you need to work in Commercial Development?

• High attention to detail

• Analytical

• Commercial knowledge

• Stakeholder management

• Relationship building

• Influencing skills

What opportunities do you have?

There are a number of ways to join our Commercial Development team:

Insights

At Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, the category team are at the forefront of leading the soft drinks growth agenda. It’s all about being experts in not just soft drinks but the shoppers and environments in which we sell. Understanding who is buying and drinking the products and which occasions and shopper missions are driving the category forward. Using sales data and world-class insights you will be responsible for delivering Range and Space recommendations across key Grocery or Out of Home environments, together with leading the strategic category agenda on specific accounts & environments. You will ensure that best practice Soft Drinks Category principals are executed with customers, to unlock growth potential in the category.

National Accounts

The role covers the development of a collaborative business plan with customers, the construction and negotiation of commercial terms, the creation & delivery of new business proposals and renegotiation of existing contracts. You will control expenditure and the implementation of an effective promotional plan, have P&L accountability, manage the introduction of NPD and play a key role in the JCBP. It will be your responsibility to maximise return on investment through all customer-linked expenditure. You will liaise closely with your internal stakeholders to lead and deliver the annual business plan.

Customer Activation (Category & Planning and Evaluation)

The customer activation team are accountable for the ‘end to end’ delivery of all assigned projects, working hand in hand with key stakeholders including the Environment leads, Sales teams and spend time externally directly with the Customer to deliver against project objectives They are experts at being able to operate across multiple environments, customers and brands and will develop and implement a broad range of activation tools (e.g. Digital, in-store etc.). The team have strong credibility and are able to build relationships quickly to influence either internally or externally towards the project objectives. The team understand the commercial implications of decisions in order to make the right judgements to unlock best in class activation.

Environmental Leads

The environmental leads are accountable for defining and delivering the end-to-end activation across the specific environment with key customers. You will understand trends, brand & competitor performance and strategy. It will be your responsibility to be your customers day-to-day contact for marketing/brand & Category queries and recommendations, represent your environment at internal or external meetings/forums. You will manage budgets and investments and ensure we maximize return of investment.

Commercial Planning & Strategy

The role of the team is to design, develop and implement commercial strategies to support the delivery of the GB Business Unit business plan, ensuring both internal and external metrics are achieved in a sustainable manner by balancing CCEP’s commercial needs with those of our customers. The RGM teams work with channel teams and National account teams to ensure the delivery of the Cross Franchise Brand portfolio plans as well as liaise with, influence & build relationship with colleagues.

What qualifications do I need?

• Eligibility to work in the UK

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GB Apprentice Scheme

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners offers a wide range of different Apprenticeship Schemes, including: Sales, Merchandising, Business Administration and Engineering. We offer on-the-job training as well as valuable experience working alongside some of our highly skilled colleagues. For more details see below!

Business

Our Business apprenticeship program allows you to learn on the job whilst working with experts in each of our departments. If you have not decided what area of business you are interested in this is the perfect opportunity to join a program that supports working in all of our different departments to set yourself up for a rewarding career.

Field Sales

You will work within a defined sales area with allocated customers. The customers you will be interacting with could include everything from small independent convenience stores, national high street names, large supermarkets, licensed bars, restaurants & cafes, educational establishments, independent cash & carry’s and wholesalers. You will also work with the wider team to deliver sales targets by strengthening existing relationships and also creating new business.

Merchandising Apprenticeship

You will work within your specific territory to increase the visibility and availability of our iconic brands as part of a wider team. By visiting grocery stores on a daily and weekly basis, you will be able to strengthen and develop customer relationships by collaborating with both your team colleagues and in store colleagues to achieve great results.

Engineering Apprenticeship

If you have a love of all things technical and relish solving problems, then developing your career as an Engineer could be the right next step for you. If learning about maintaining our cutting-edge machinery sounds fascinating to you, then our apprentice programme may be the next chapter in your career. You will get to learn about our Coca-Cola products and work alongside a highly skilled team, all whilst earning money! After your program ends Having successfully completed an apprenticeship program, our apprentices have the opportunity to become permanent employees at CCEP in their chosen career. Since 2017, 85% of our apprentices have chosen to continue their career with us. Others have made the decision to go into higher education full time, having gained valuable insight into the world of work.

Continued Development

We are committed to the continued development of our apprentices beyond the end of their programs as we help to build them into future leaders within CCEP. All of our apprentices will be given the opportunity to continue their studies once they have completed their program – gaining a degree with one of our university partners. Options for degree apprenticeships include: Engineering, Supply Chain Management or Business Management. Sounds interesting? We are looking for ambitious individuals who want to learn and develop in their career.

We are looking for determination and a passion to succeed in your chosen path. Just as important – we’re looking for people who have the personality to bring our brands alive!