Sales & Logistics Planner - Coca-Cola Beverages Florida

Sales & Logistics Planner

Tampa, FL, USA Req #30048

Thursday, February 29, 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 looking for a Sales & Logistics Planner based out of our Tampa location. We're currently looking for Monday through Friday shift, working normal business hours.

What You Will Do:

As a Coke Florida Sales and Logistics Planner, you will be responsible for creating strategic and tactical DSD (Direct Store Delivery) logistics plans for our Distribution and Sales Centers across Florida. This is a challenging role where you will have the opportunity to make a direct impact to the bottom line through the effectiveness of your route planning.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and other business functions to serve our customers effectively and efficiently.
• Optimize our Distribution and Sales plans with while considering delivery frequency, delivery day, a balanced work day, and customers needs
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement efforts
• Ability to produce ad-hoc reports that are easily understood outside of your team; meaning being able to translate data into a more digestible language if needed
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes in strategy from leadership
• Accurate reporting: The data you provide will be used to make impactful business decisions
• Drive consistency in service standards across geographies, channels, and customers and provide key insights route plan improvements
• Problem solve based on business insights and data analytics

For this role, you will need:

• Required BA/BS in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business or Logistics Management or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3 years of Dispatching, Distribution, or Operations experience desired
• Project Management experience a plus
• SAP experience a benefit.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel including formulas, VLOOKUP and pivot tables

Additional qualifications that will make you successful in this role:

• Demonstrated initiative and follow up skills, capable of handling simultaneous responsibilities and deadlines with minimal guidance
• Talent for data mining and analysis
• Desire to find solutions when there is no defined roadmap - We are looking for problem solvers, not problem finders
• Interpersonal and teamwork skills, ability to establish and maintain professional relationships
• Strong verbal, written and comprehension communication skills

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 Commercial Leadership
• Job Function Enterprise Planning
• Pay Type Salary

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initStaticMap(true); Coke Florida is looking for a Sales & Logistics Planner based out of our Tampa location. We're currently looking for Monday through Friday shift, working normal business hours. What You Will Do: Asa Coke Florida Sales and Logistics Planner, you will be responsible for creating strategic and tactical DSD (Direct Store Delivery) logistics plans for our Distribution and Sales Centers across Florida. This is a challenging role where you will have the opportunity to make a direct impact to the bottom line through the effectiveness of your route planning. Roles and Responsibilities: Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and other business functions to serve our customers effectively and efficiently. Optimize our Distribution and Sales plans with while considering delivery frequency, delivery day, a balanced work day, and customers needs Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement efforts Ability to produce ad-hoc reports that are easily understood outside of your team; meaning being able to translate data into a more digestible language if needed Ability to quickly adapt to changes in strategy from leadership Accurate reporting: The data you provide will be used to make impactful business decisions Drive consistency in service standards across geographies, channels, and customers and provide key insights route plan improvements Problem solve based on business insights and data analytics For this role, you will need: RequiredBA/BS in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business or Logistics Management or equivalent experience Minimum 3 years of Dispatching, Distribution, or Operations experience desired Project Management experience a plus SAP experience a benefit. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel including formulas, VLOOKUP and pivot tables Additional qualifications that will make you successful in thisrole: Demonstrated initiative and follow up skills, capable of handling simultaneous responsibilities and deadlines with minimal guidance Talent for data mining and analysis Desire to find solutions when there is no defined roadmap - We are looking for problem solvers, not problem finders Interpersonal and teamwork skills, ability to establish and maintain professional relationships Strong verbal, written and comprehension communication skills

• Tampa, FL, USA