PepsiCo Canada: Commercial IT Winter 2027 Co-op

Overview

Position: Commercial IT Co-op Location: Mississauga, ON Duration: 4 months Compensation: $25.00-37.50

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 brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help 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.

Are you hungry for an exciting and challenging opportunity in a fast-paced, diverse organization? If so, you have a future at PepsiCo. As a world class organization, we strive for excellence in everything that we do! To accomplish our goals, we need talented, innovative, creative people who know how to work hard and have fun. Taste the success with Canada's fastest growing CPG (Consumer Package Goods) company and discover how our passion for growth creates big challenges and big opportunities: personally, professionally, and financially.

At PepsiCo, we leverage an amazing range of technologies throughout our business; from mobile apps to advanced analytics, from cloud connected sensors to complex data integrations and everything in between.

Reasons to Consider PepsiCo for your Co-op Placement:

• Ongoing professional development to expand your business knowledge

• Opportunities to work with a wide range of functional departments and leaders

• Make an impactful change with your projects

• Ability to flex work arrangements

• To work with, and learn from business partners to gain key decision-making skills

• Opportunities for various plant tours and visits

Responsibilities

As an IT Project Intern in the Commercial space, you will collaborate with PepsiCo Canada’s Customer and Go-To-Market teams to support end-to-end project delivery. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, process modernization, and enabling innovative solutions. This role will be split into two main focus areas: IT project coordination and enabling digital tools and capabilities.

IT Project Coordination (Primary Focus)

• Support the development and execution of project plans, including monitoring progress, tracking schedules, and managing dependencies, issues, and risks

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans, status reports, and dashboards

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document requirements, scope, and project objectives

• Collaborate with development teams and external vendors during the build and delivery phases to provide requirements clarification, feedback, and alignment

• Lead the development and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including creation of test cases and maintenance of traceability matrices

• Support project go‑live activities, including troubleshooting, stakeholder coordination, and resolution management

Digital Tools & Capabilities (Secondary Focus)

• Support business stakeholders in testing and delivering digital tools and technologies to enhance insights, reporting, and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Motivated learner enrolled in a Business, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, or IT‑related program

• Previous work experience as an IT or Business Analyst, Project Coordinator, or similar role preferred

• Exposure to Agile and/or hybrid delivery methodologies

• Strong communication and organizational skills, including multitasking and effective time management

• Strong skills in developing presentations and reports

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and knowledge of SQL required

• Experience in analytics from conception to delivery an asset

• Working experience with dashboarding (e.g., Business Objects, Power BI) is an asset

• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and able to build collaborative relationships!

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 career—it offers the chance to help create what's next.

PepsiCo may use Artificial Intelligence as part of its hiring process. Specifically, we may use AI-based tools to screen, assess, or select applicants. This posting is for an existing vacancy.