Demand Planning Manager

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 c...