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.
- In 2025, for the 4th year in a row, Coke Florida was named as a 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 10 company paid holidays*
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Competitive compensation
Coke Florida is searching for a Bottler to Bottler & Agency Planner work out of our Tampa area facility, working Monday - Friday.
What You Will Do
As a Bottler to Bottler & Agency Planner, you will serve as a cross-functional link across supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, and customer order management, ensuring uninterrupted raw material supply and exceptional service for bottling and agency customers. You will drive process improvements, manage Agency and Bottler to bottler sales and support the management of raw materials planning, and provide end-to-end order management support while also offering cross-coverage across planning functions during absences or peak demand.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate bottler product order management, reporting, execution, and customer issue resolution.
- Act as liaison between customers, production facilities, and supply chain planning to ensure successful order fulfillment and SLA adherence.
- Serve as point of contact for Outside Bottlers and Agency Bottlers, providing timely updates on promotional packaging and order status.
- Develop and execute raw material forecasts with suppliers and procurement to ensure uninterrupted production.
- Support execution of innovation, promotional packaging, new SKU launches, and production trials.
- Manage allocations, constraints, and exit strategies for discontinued or transitioning materials, present risks and trade-off recommendations to leadership.
- Maintain and update customer order forms and proactively address load/product availability issues.
- Analyze raw material utilization and customer orders to minimize waste and optimize inventory and resource allocation.
- Document, monitor, and resolve customer, supplier, or production issues in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Provide vacation and absence coverage across planning functions (demand planning, deployment, or order management).
- Serve as a subject matter expert for raw materials and customer order processes; mentor junior planners and cross-train peers.
- Continuously share and adopt best practices across planning and customer service functions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills & Requirements
- 3-5 years' experience in supply chain planning, raw materials management, or customer order management (CPG preferred).
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Finance, or related field required (advanced degree or APICS/CPIM certification a plus).
- ERP systems experience required (SAP/ECC or JDA preferred).
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, complex formulas); proficiency in PowerPoint/Word for reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to interpret complex data.
- Excellent cross-functional written and oral communication skills with proven collaboration experience.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong customer service orientation with ability to balance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Ability to explain, develop, and train customers or peers on planning processes as needed.
- Willingness to travel to production facilities as needed.
Additional Qualifications That Will Make You Successful in Role:
- Demonstrated success in managing planning activities independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience covering related planning functions (demand, deployment, or production planning).
- Strong leadership potential.
- Relentlessly seeks and shares best practices, embracing change and driving continuous improvement.
- Strong sense of urgency, accountability, and commitment to delivering results.
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.
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