Planner, Demand

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 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 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.

The Demand Planner will support all processes related to the generation and assessment of the demand forecast that drives our supply chain process, resource allocation decisions, and services our customer and consumer needs. This role is crucial in ensuring that our products are available to meet customer demand while optimizing inventory levels.

As a key team member within the 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 CCBF's business outcomes, while managing trade-offs and investment decisions
• PGM & Planning to support CCBF in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined & sustained profitable growth

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a statistical demand forecast based on a defined framework, applying promotional and lifecycle planning modules to create a rolling forecast with a specified time horizon.
• Evaluate the results of the statistical forecast at various levels (customer, location, package, material) against mid-term derived customer forecasts from the customer account management team.
• Understand variances and make necessary adjustments to reflect the most appropriate demand forecast results.
• Assist with the Sales & Operations execution process that drives the company's consensus forecast with key stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Production, Finance, Planning teams, etc.)3.
• Proactively assess forecast quality using trend analysis, forecast vs. actual results, and data input of volume by utilizing customer promotional calendars, history, and current information4.
• Collaborate with other planners (lifecycle, bottler to bottler, deployment, production, transportation) as needed to enable integrated planning activities and processes5.
• 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.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong attention to detail and business process improvement.
• Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various learning methods.
• Ability to navigate complex business processes with an understanding of upstream and downstream implications.
• Strong business acumen.
• Proven cross-functional team collaboration at all levels.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, or Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in Business Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, or Operations.
• Strong forecasting and supply planning experience.
• Project management experience preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite.

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.