Product Owner (Maternity cover)

PepsiCo; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational company in Reading is seeking a dynamic candidate to enhance their B2B customer engagement and digital presence. You will define and execute strategies to drive customer engagement and manage key platforms. The ideal candidate should have strong digital experience, project management skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across teams. This position offers competitive pay, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Car allowance

Flexible working

Various benefits including gym memberships

Qualifications

• Experience in digital marketing or engagement.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment.
• Strong understanding of commercial levers to drive performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Shopt agenda and align it with field operations.
• Define campaigns to attract new customers and increase engagement.
• Own the future platform roadmap and manage budgets.

Skills

Digital experience

Entrepreneurial spirit

Negotiation skills

Influencing skills

Strong communication skills

Project management

Job description

Overview

At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.

We are looking for someone to continue to take the content and B2B customer engagement tool to the next level with the goal of driving engagement, retention and drive distribution gains. The candidate will need to define, create and deliver the plan for engagement lifecycle using our 3rd party App Shopt. They’ll also need to work cross functionally and with Shopt to drive efficiencies and grow the digital relevance and reach of Pepsico across retail, specifically in Traditional Trade for visited and non visited stores.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Continuing to lead the Shopt agenda to evolve the current scheme to align with the field so we can establish how we utilise digital to support the KDMs vs the field and vice versa, whilst ensuring an insights led approach is taken
• Leading the alignment forums, including agenda ownership, stakeholder alignment, follow up actions
• Defining the campaigns and Lifecycle to: attract new customers to sign up, increase engagement with our offers, provide range recommendations, educate about core range and campaigns
• Owning the future platform roadmap, encompassing functionality to support wider business needs and an enhanced experience for our users
• Maintaining a Test & Learn approach to find future improvements, partnering with wider digital specialists and brand marketing teams where appropriate
• Running ad hoc research including polls and surveys to support the insights
• Seeking new digital opportunities and solutions for aiding growth in Impulse
• Extending current support for CSN – consolidated sales network to include both juice and grains
• Managing and reporting on budgets

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Digital experience
• Entrepreneurial spirit & can do approach
• Strong negotiation & influencing skills
• Solid trading experience, understanding all the commercial levers to drive performance (Range, Price, Experience, Marketing)
• Strong communication skills to work across multiple internal markets & stakeholders and a wide range of stakeholders across channels, Media & Technology
• Ability to build winning relationships with both internal & external stakeholders
• Understanding of the field operation and marketing would be an advantage
• Project management – ability to manage multiple projects in a fast moving and ever changing environment with maturity and foresight to cope with input and changes, sometimes at the last minute

Why Join Us?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. 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.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.