2027 Summer Intern: Human Resources - Masters

PepsiCo HR Representative

At PepsiCo, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brandsincluding Gatorade, Lay's, and Quakerhelp create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities. At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities. No matter your role, you'll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your careerit offers the chance to help create what's next.

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 with many of these roles working in our field locations.

Responsibilities

Being part of the HR team at PepsiCo requires that you help create a culture, which encourages teamwork, decision making and ownership of the business results. Our full-time HR Representatives are required to play a broad HR generalist role within a manufacturing, operations or sales client group. In partnership with the lead HR Manager or Director, the HR Representative takes an active role to help support an employee base of between 400 and 1,000 associates. You will have real responsibility day one serving in a broad HR role as a functional expert, business partner, and enabler for the organization through a strategic approach that leverages your academic knowledge and personal capabilities.

What you can expect: We're hiring today, for PepsiCo's future leaders of tomorrow. Whether you join our Food or Beverage division, you can expect experiences that will build the leadership excellence and functional expertise needed for long-term career growth. This is achieved through the leadership and execution of HR processes which provide direct and technical support to the business. Business partnerships with senior leadership allows HR professionals to actively participate in the business and learn our ongoing challenges. This allows our HR team the flexibility and autonomy to match the right solutions, ideas, skills, people and processes to the specific needs of their businesses in ways that create measurable results. Creating valuable change in line with the business agenda defines our overall contribution to our organization goals. At PepsiCo, we reserve a spot for you at the leadership table, but it's up to you to earn your voice and make an impact.

Understand the business operations from both a strategic and tactical perspective

Accurately diagnose organization issues, develop solutions and implement action plans

Support and guide PepsiCo Unit Leaders, Team Leaders and Employees regarding Company policies, HR programs administration and interpretation to ensure policies and procedures are handled consistently and in a timely manner

Assist leadership in managing performance and developing succession plans

Ensure activities are in compliance with all state and federal employment laws and regulations (e.g., FMLA, ADA, EEO and FLSA)

Manage multiple projects with overlapping tasks and work independently with minimal supervision

Be a confident communicator, (including both written and verbal skills) and effectively present to all levels of the organization, including the senior leadership team

Qualifications

Currently pursuing a degree in: Human Resources (other related majors will be considered)

Self-starting individuals who possess the passion and drive to win

Resilience and adaptability to solve problems

Ability to discern priorities and remain organized as business needs evolve

Strong work ethic and heightened sense of urgency to operate successfully in a fast-paced environment

Proven leadership throughout your academic career (on- or off- campus)

Previous internship experience in consumer products or manufacturing environment is highly desirable

Willing and able to work flexible hours as necessary

Willing and able to relocate at time of hire and as your career progresses within the organization

Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:

This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States

Graduate with Master's (or MBA) degree within one (1) year of internship completion

Hold a GPA of 2.75 or higher

The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2027 campus intern openings is $34.30 $44.40 hourly

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 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.