Senior Manager Forecasting Job at The Coca-Cola Company
We seek to positively impact peoples lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and carbon emissions reductions across our value chain. In this role you'll collaborate with our operations and co-manufacturers leading inbound and outbound transportation, which includes ingredients and packaging to our production facilities. You'll be a key member of the supply chain management team involved in daily operations while also linked with our global teams around the world that are involved in logistic strategy development.
What You'll Do for Us
Provide a national vision of the needs and requirements to the regional supply networks and our supplier base, which include develop, design, and activate the lowest cost supply network solution, while preparing additional contingent scenarios.
Build, maintain, and communicate national material and ingredient requirements projection by production site for each assigned brand/package, considering scenarios when emergencies emerge due to unforeseen events (e.g., weather, breakdowns, material shortages, etc.) to find the next-best options to keep our production sites supported while minimizing costs.
Be the subject matter expert for materials and ingredients used in new product introductions, product changes, and product discontinuations, including participating in project meetings, submitting item set-up requests, tracking materials planning, and publishing factsheets.
Collaborate with our Procurment organization to establish a sourcing strategy for assigned product lines and supply network structure and work with regional planning to populate and maintain parameter settings in system tools to support the strategy and maximize the planning groups efficiency & improve demand data accuracy.
Track and manage performance against the target inventory levels to improve the company's overall cash position, minimizing finished good & material write-offs through meeting inventory targets.
Report out performance results, current business status, and future risks in weekly meetings and reports, leveraging these routines to clearly communicate risks, opportunities, and contingency plans.
Qualification & Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering or related field.
- 3 years of experience in operations and manufacturing experience is required preferably in food manufacturing.
- Basic understanding of inbound materials management, detailed production planning, material handling, impact of stock levels on working capital, trade-offs within supply chain.
- Ability to conduct complex communication in multiple "languages" into various levels of all business functions
- Demonstrated experience with assembling proactive contingency plans, scenarios, and optimized supply network plans that can balance service and cost
- Experience working with Warehouse Managed Systems
- Requires experience managing people/budgets.
- Working knowledge of specific supply chain capabilities, strategies and interdependencies.
- Working knowledge of basic elements of Good Manufacturing Practices in a manufacturing environment.
- Advanced knowledge of demand forecasting and supply chain planning.
- Working knowledge of supply chain purchasing and procurement.
- Advanced Project Management Skills
- Demonstrated leadership ability with cross functional teams and direct reports.
What We Can Do for You
Iconic & Innovative Brands. Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.
Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate, and innovate
Skills:
Product Launches; Lean Manufacturing; Supply Chain Management; Logistics Management; Industrial Engineering; Production Planning; Lean Principles; Material Handling; Supply Chain Operations; Communication; People Management; Purchase Management; Shipping; Production Scheduling; Continuous Improvement (CI); Cost Analysis
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do 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. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.
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