Operations Manager - Supply Chain

Who We Are:

• Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that is the third largest privately-held and the sixth largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States.
• Coke Florida was named as a 2023 US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal. This program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture, and governance/financial performance.
• Coke Florida sells, markets, manufactures and distributes over 600 products of The Coca-Cola Company and other partner companies including Monster Beverage Corporation and BODYARMOR.

What We Offer:
Eligible full time Coke Florida Associates can participate in our Total Rewards Program which includes:

• Tuition reimbursement
• Total Wellness Programs including health, dental and vision plans
• Competitive compensation
• 401K program with healthy company match
• Three weeks of vacation pay, and 11 company paid holidays*
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

Coke Florida is looking for an Operations Manager - Commercial Operations, to work out of our Tampa Headquarters.
What You Will Do:
The Operations Manager will support and execute the strategy for the Profit Growth Management and Planning team. The Operations Manager will spend periods of time rotating through the various key functions and areas of responsibility including but not limited to: Demand Planning, Supply and Production Planning, Field Logistics Planning, Profit Growth Management, Facility placements either distribution or production. As a team member within the Planning team, the Operations Manager will need to operate and embrace the team’s principles of:

• Enable execution of segmented customer and consumer service models with effective program design
• Profit Growth Management and Planning to support Coke Florida in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined and sustained profitable growth
• Manage integrated business processes of planning to effectively deliver desired customer value propositions
• Create "one" consensus forecast, an agree upon single source of truth to which all are accountable
• Allocate resources to optimize Coke Florida’s business outcomes, while managing trade-offs and investment decisions

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support all related integrated planning departments and or other assigned projects
• Engage and provide support to Functional Leads to identify areas of opportunity in the processes and workflows that support the Profit Growth Management & Planning team.
• Development of business and operational knowledge through active engagement in the various areas for Field Logistics and Supply Planning such as: Demand Planning, Supply and Production Planning, Field Logistics Planning, Capacity Planning, Network Optimization
• Be the project support for the various transformational initiatives that requires the integration of Enterprise Planning functions.
• Provide cross-functional support by collaborating with other planning functions (lifecycle, bottler to bottler, deployment, production, transportation) as needed to enable an integrated planning activities and processes
• Responsible for executing strategies, creating solutions and improvements, assuring operational success for assigned activities

For this role, you will need:

• Able to navigate through complex business processes with understanding of upstream and downstream implications
• Experience SAP APO highly preferred
• Must be willing to travel 10% to 20% of the time or as business requires
• Ability to solve complex problems through use of data, logic and analytical thinking
• Operational, entrepreneurial business experience required – minimum 3 years
• Bachelor's degree required preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, Engineering disciplines OR equivalent entrepreneurial business experience with proven business and people leadership
• Strong attention to detail and business processes improvement
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - with the ability to engage with all levels of the organization
• Able to build relationships in all functions of the business to build one team culture
• Evidence of progression in business or operational knowledge gained and applied
• Able to leverage and use toolsets such as SAP, JDA, Tableau, Power BI, Microsoft Office Suite
• Previous people management required
• Project management experience preferred

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This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Coke Florida reserves the right to revise the job description at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed.
Employment with Coke Florida is at-will. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.
Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.