PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA) announced the expansion of its "returnship" program across its South Division after year partnership with career empowerment nonprofit Path Forward. The program is part of the division's efforts to increase representation in the workforce by recruiting women professionals who have taken time off for caregiving.
The PBNA South Division Returnship program offers 16-week internships to women professionals with a minimum of five years of work experience who have taken at least two years off for caregiving. As a result of the success seen in the first year, PBNA South Division is expanding the program, with 12 to 15 returnship positions open in supply chain, sales, and commercial fields—more than twice the number of positions available in the 2022 program. Positions are open across PBNA South Division hubs including Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, with Nashville and the Washington D.C. metropolitan area added this year.