Demand Planner at Coca-Cola Beverages Florida in Tampa, Florida

Job Description:

Demand Planner Tampa, FL, USA Req #23723 Friday, December 2, 2022 Who We Are:

• Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that is the third largestprivately-heldand the sixth largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States.


• 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.


• Coke Florida was named as a 2022 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.

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

• Total Wellness Programs including health, dental and vision plans


• 401K program with healthy company match


• Supplemental Life Insurance


• Three weeks of vacation pay, and 11 company paid holidays*


• Tuition reimbursement


• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)


• Competitive compensation

Coke Florida is looking for a Demand Planner based out of our Tampa location. What You Will Do: TheDemand Plannerwill support all processes relating generation, assessment of the Demand Forecast that drives our supply chain process, resource allocation decisions and service our customer and consumer needs. As a key team member within the Profit Growth Management & Planning team, the Demand Planner will need to operate and embrace the team's principles of:

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

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support and provide feedback for development of the statistical demand forecast process based on defined framework. Apply promotional and lifecycle planning modules to create a Coke Florida statistical forecast with a rolling 26-week time horizon
• Evaluate the results of the statistical forecast at customer, location, package, material level against mid-term derived customer forecast from customer account management team. Understand the variances and make the necessary adjustment to reflect the most appropriate demand forecast results
• Assist with the Sales & Operations execution process that drives Coke Florida's consensus forecast with key stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Production, Finance, Planning teams, etc.)
• Proactive forecast quality assessment using trend analysis, forecast vs actual results and data input of volume by utilizing customer promotional calendars, history and current information
• Collaborate with other planners (lifecycle, bottler to bottler, deployment, production, transportation) as needed to enable an integrated planning activities and process
• Support the management of material introduction and deletion for forecast needs including re-alignment requirements of sales history
• Support all related integrated planning requirements and or other assigned projects
• Strong attention to detail and business process improvement
• Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various means of learning methods
• Able to navigate through complex business processes with understanding of upstream and downstream implications
• Strong business acumen
• Proven cross functional team collaboration at all levels

For this role, you will need:

• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management or Engineering
• 3 plus years' experience in area of Business Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, or Operations
• Strong forecast, supply planning experience
• Project management experience preferred
• Experience SAP APO preferred
• MS Office

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 isat-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.
Other details

• Job Family Commercial Leadership
• Job Function Enterprise Planning
• Pay Type Salary

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• Tampa, FL, USA

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