Job Description Overview
2025 Summer Intern: Supply Chain
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, we’re 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, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.
A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s invited. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to 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.
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. Field based roles will only be placed in the field.
Responsibilities
Functional Description:
The PepsiCo Supply Chain organization provides a demanding, fast-paced opportunity in a competitive industry where growth equals opportunity and fun 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:
- Supply Planning
- Demand Planning
- Contract Operation Planning
- Transportation
- Customer Integration Center
- Routing Intelligence Center
- Warehouse Operations
- Transportation
- And more!
What you can expect:
Students are afforded opportunities for beneficial, meaningful work experience in one of seven Supply Chain divisions. As an intern, you will be assigned a 10-week project, gain exposure to PepsiCo’s leaders during our Executive Speaker Series, network with members of PepsiCo’s Employee Resource Groups, and more. Please let your PepsiCo Campus Representative know which of the following disciplines interests you most.
You may express interest in more than one:
- 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: Interns will work either on a field-based or headquarters-based team. 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: Interns will partner with transport team members to ensure timely delivery of finished good 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. Interns will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience owning day-to-day transport activities.
- Customer Integration Center: Interns 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.
- HQ Manufacturing & Engineering (M&E): Interns will provide Manufacturing & Engineering support to our Beverage manufacturing & warehouse locations in North America. Interns will work on teams that are based out of Chicago, IL and Purchase, NY. M&E roles encompass many engineering and Supply Chain initiatives such as project management, development of technical training materials, innovation projects, managing capital assets, data analysis and process improvement. Interns will gain overall beverage processing and manufacturing knowledge while obtaining critical work experiences that drive results directly impacting key process indicators for the beverage business. The M&E hires can obtain success by leveraging strong problem solving, influencing, and critical thinking skills while working in a team environment.
Compensation & Benefits:
- The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2025 campus intern openings is $20.50 – $39.60/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
Qualifications
What we’re looking for:
- 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
Minimum Qualifications – Each candidate is expected to:
- This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
- Graduate with a Bachelor’s degree OR a Bachelor’s to Master’s (3+2 or 4+1) dual program degree between December 2025 and June 2026.
- Have a minimum GPA standing of 2.75.
EEO Statement
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.
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