Demand Planning Manager

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is seeking a Demand Planning Manager for the Tampa office. This role involves leading the forecasting process, supporting operational planning, and driving business outcomes through cross-functional collaboration. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree and at least five years of experience in supply chain or related fields.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Business Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, or Operations.
• Required strong experience in forecasting and supply planning.
• Preferred experience in people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Demand Planning team using statistical models for forecasting.
• Collaborate with Sales & Operations to drive consensus.
• Develop team members through training and feedback.

Skills

Forecasting

Supply Planning

Statistical Analysis

Cross-functional Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, Engineering

Tools

SAP APO

Blue Yonder

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Coca-Cola Beverages Florida

Coke Florida is looking for a Demand Planning Manager to work out of our Tampa area office.

What You Will Do:

The Demand Manager will support & lead all processes relating generation, assessment of the Demand Forecast that drives our supply chain process, resource allocation decisions and service our customer & consumer needs.

As a key team member within the Profit Growth Management & Planning team, the Demand Manager 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
• Profit Growth Management & 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:

• Lead the Demand Planning team using various statistical models to build the base forecast, apply promotional and lifecycle planning modules to create a Coke Florida’s statistical forecast with a rolling 26 weeks' time horizon. When needed, provide a longer time horizon of forecast view based on statistical model projection to support long term planning.
• Review, evaluate and document the results of the statistical forecast at customer, location, package, material level against mid-term derived customer forecast from customer account management team.
• Subject matter expert in support of the Sales & Operations execution process that drives Coke Florida’s consensus forecast with key stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Production, Finance, Planning teams, etc.)
• Partners with Commercial Lifecycle Manager on incoming and outgoing products as it relates to forecast input into Blue Yonder to enable a smooth supply planning execution with introduction of “lifecycle” module within Blue Yonder as a potential solution.
• 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 planning functions (lifecycle, bottler to bottler, deployment, production, transportation) as needed to enable an integrated planning activities and processes.
• Support supply planning by effectively communicating any issues behind the immediate 4-week forecast.
• Develop team members through training and ongoing learning opportunities.
• Provide feedback for ongoing continuous improvement needed to make our Blue Yonder process more effective.
• Continue to build the forecasting capabilities of the Demand Planning team and encourage cross functional learning and integration with other planning functions.
• Look for opportunities to enhance the usage of statistical forecast for mid and long term resource allocation decision support capabilities.
• Support all related integrated planning requirements and or other assigned projects

For this role, you will need:

• Bachelor's degree required preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, Engineering disciplines OR equivalent entrepreneurial business experience with proven business & people leadership
• Five (5) plus years’ experience in area of Business Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, or Operations required
• Strong Forecast, Supply Planning experience required
• People leadership experience preferred
• Experience SAP APO highly preferred

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Services and Manufacturing

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