Territory Sales Leader

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Pepsi Beverages United States (PBUS) is Pepsi Co’s beverage manufacturing, sales, and distribution operating unit in the United States. This role sits within the Southwest Market Beverage organization and plays a critical role in driving consistent execution across small format (small business owners/independents) and large format customers.

Role

Summary:

The Territory Sales Leader (TSL) is responsible for leading and developing a territory‑based team of 8–14 frontline sales employees, including Sales Representatives and Large Format Sales District Leaders (LF SDLs), to deliver superior marketplace execution, customer service, and business results.

This role provides direct people leadership to Sales Representatives and Large Format Sales District Leaders (LF SDLs). Additionally, the TSL enables Large Format execution through LF SDLs, who serve as frontline people leaders for merchandising teams and maintain a dotted‑line relationship to Large Format Sales Representatives. The TSL role balances people leadership, customer engagement, and operational discipline while ensuring alignment with Pepsi Co’s Ways of Working, Lighthouse routines, and One Best Way (OBW).

• Responsible for volume, revenue and market share growth in a designated
• Responsible for managing sales overtime and labor budget
• Leading collaboration and team effectiveness of customer pod structure
• Manage, motivate, and develop a team of employees in order to increase sales, daily productivity and improve business performance
• Conduct ‘work‑withs/route rides’ with employees to develop their selling and customer service skills
• Work proactively with customers to understand business needs and develop strong relationships
• Maintain process improvement to further enhance productivity of Pepsi Co’s selling and delivery model
• Collaborate with cross‑functional team members to ensure orders are submitted, delivered, and merchandised according to plan
• Activate local and national marketplace initiatives and promotions to build brand development and maximize brand performance
• Hold regular weekly meetings with cross functional teams, including Sales Representative, and Frontline Sales leaders

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $80,700 - $135,100.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out quarterly.
• 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…