Director of Transport - Coca-Cola Beverages Florida

Director of Transport

Tampa, FL, USA Req #29412

Thursday, January 18, 2024

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 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.

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 searching for a Director of Transport to work out of our Tampa area office.

As the Director of Transport, you will provide strategic leadership to the Coke Florida Transportation team to drive load delivery efficiency, reliability, flexibility and timeliness. Support and lead Coke Florida business objectives through the development and implementation of strategic initiatives in Transportation.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead routines to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the Coke Florida transportation team.
• Collaborate with manufacturing teams, warehouse leadership, Enterprise Planning and Equipment Services to deliver products, loads on time to the designated locations.
• Responsible for ensuring that Transportation is operating in a safe and cost-effective manner.
• Collaborate with Fleet in the management and maintenance of Transportation assets.
• Responsible for tracking trailer fleet across the Coke Florida network.
• Develop and provide governance of Transportation KPI's and policies.
• Ensure collaborative relationships between plant leadership teams and Transport Supervisors.
• Responsible for the training and development of staff.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining a "One Network" operating model.
• Responsible for development of the long-term Transportation strategy.
• Champion change management by building trust through direct engagement, problem solving, and building relationships.
• Proactively recommend business solutions to continually improve the Coke Florida Transport capabilities to drive business value.
• Responsible for building a culture of executional excellence.

For This role, You Will Need:

• Bachelor or BS degree in Business or 10+ years of transportation/logistics leadership experience.
• Experience working in food manufacturing or an understanding of food industry is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills to enable interactions at various levels in the organization.
• Ability to interact with and influence broad spectrum of leaders and colleagues.
• Experience in coaching and developing large teams.
• Able to effectively hold people accountable even if in senior or peer relationships.
• Proven ability to take on and solve complex problems independently.
• Proven capabilities in successfully executing projects with teams.
• Previous experience managing budgets
• Proven change management capabilities.
• People management / leadership
• Previous experience with Project and Program Management
• Experience conducting Root Cause Analysis
• Strong appreciation for and experience with change management
• Effective communication of complex processes and analysis
• Proficiency with productivity and analytics tools
• Can predict roadblocks and finds proactive solutions
• Strong collaborator / ability to work cross-functionally
• Teamwork oriented and strong collaboration skills
• Customer focused
• Comfortable leading meetings with senior leadership

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.

Other details

• Job Family Manufacturing
• Job Function Quality
• Pay Type Hourly

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initStaticMap(true); Coke Florida is searching for a Director of Transport to work out of our Tampa area office. As the Director of Transport, you will provide strategic leadership to the Coke Florida Transportation team to drive load delivery efficiency, reliability, flexibility and timeliness. Support and lead Coke Florida business objectives through the development and implementation of strategic initiatives in Transportation. Roles and Responsibilities: Develop and lead routines to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the Coke Florida transportation team. Collaborate with manufacturing teams, warehouse leadership, Enterprise Planning and Equipment Services to deliver products, loads on time to the designated locations. Responsible for ensuring that Transportation is operating in a safe and cost-effective manner. Collaborate with Fleet in the management and maintenance of Transportation assets. Responsible for tracking trailer fleet across the Coke Florida network. Develop and provide governance of Transportation KPI's and policies. Ensure collaborative relationships between plant leadership teams and Transport Supervisors. Responsible for the training and development of staff. Responsible for developing and maintaining a "One Network" operating model. Responsible for development of the long-term Transportation strategy. Champion change management by building trust through direct engagement, problem solving, and building relationships. Proactively recommend business solutions to continually improve the Coke Florida Transport capabilities to drive business value. Responsible for building a culture of executional excellence. For This role, You Will Need: Bachelor or BS degree in Business or 10+ years of transportation/logistics leadership experience. Experience working in food manufacturing or an understanding of food industry is highly desirable. Excellent communication skills to enable interactions at various levels in the organization. Ability to interact with and influence broad spectrum of leaders and colleagues. Experience in coaching and developing large teams. Able to effectively hold people accountable even if in senior or peer relationships. Proven ability to take on and solve complex problems independently. Proven capabilities in successfully executing projects with teams. Previous experience managing budgets Proven change management capabilities. People management / leadership Previous experience with Project and Program Management Experience conducting Root Cause Analysis Strong appreciation for and experience with change management Effective communication of complex processes and analysis Proficiency with productivity and analytics tools Can predict roadblocks and finds proactive solutions Strong collaborator / ability to work cross-functionally Teamwork oriented and strong collaboration skills Customer focused Comfortable leading meetings with senior leadership

• Tampa, FL, USA