The overview
People know and love our brands like Coca-Cola, Fanta, Dr Pepper and Sprite. As an ambassador for CCEP, you’ll bring them alive, making sure they are always available to consumers and providing a fantastic experience to our customers. They could be supermarket chains, local convenience stores, wholesalers, restaurants, cafés… or many other outlets.
Success profile
Along with the ability to build a great rapport with customers, you’ll need a solution-focused approach to business problems. We also look for the determination to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment A driving licence is essential, and you’ll need to be eligible to work in your chosen location.
Speak to our people
Speak to our company insiders to see what working at CCEP is really like. Feel free to ask questions, or read through our discussion board.
Career path
Many Field Sales Representatives and Merchandisers are happy to stay in the role, giving their best and earning high rewards. But it can also be a springboard to move into national and key account management, or a sales management or merchandising team leader role. An example of a potential career path is here:
Merchandising Team Leader - Peterborough & Surrounding areas (12 Months Secondment)
SolliciteerAre you looking for new challenges within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?Will you make an impact with your desire to win?
Merchandising Team Leader
Location: Peterborough and surrounding areas
Contract type: 12 Month Secondment
Please note this role involves occasional Saturday working on a rota basis.
Advert closing date: 19th January 2026
What to expect:
- In this role you will coach and develop individuals to achieve their individual annual targets while building and implementing team direction to drive results. You will complete and monitor performance appraisals, Performance development plans and Talent development reviews.
- You will set appropriate objectives for the team that will support delivery of targets and monitor and feedback on performance against objectives. You will continue to build and develop diverse teams focused on days in trade and recruitment, and create an environment that allows people to thrive in the role.
- You will support the wider Grocery team in tactical activities in line with national and regional direction ensuring that the National Compliance, IC/FC agenda and the successes achieved both within the Grocery channel teams and across the wider regional sales teams are effectively communicated.
- You will drive adoption rates of use of tools which support the Field Sales teams to focus and prioritise their time in call. Effective resource utilisation to deliver key calendar moments unlocking local opportunities while collaborating with Sales Managers, Profs and 3rd party contacts.
What we’re looking for:
- This is a great opportunity to gain strong people management experience and a real platform for gaining exposure in a demanding but highly rewarding role.
- The successful candidate will be a positive, motivated and highly organised individual with a good team work ethic and leadership qualities. You will have a strong commercial outlook and the ability to motivate and drive the look of success.
We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.
From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider
We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.
Meet our people
The training was really good! Everybody was so welcoming and friendly. During my 4-6 week training, I was able to shadow 4 different reps giving me an insight into different areas.
Lisa
Field Sales Representative
Watch nowThe benefits
There are great benefits for hitting your targets and delivering a great customer experience. You can look forward to:
A market-competitive basic salary plus sales bonus to give you every incentive to excel
Phone, iPad and laptop, dependent on role. Company car for you to visit your customer base (not applicable to Merchandisers)
Flexible benefits programme for you and your family, covering savings and finance, wellbeing and lifestyle
Pension and share plan to help you prepare for the future