Are 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.