Business Partner, Profit Growth Management

Coke Florida Careers • Tampa, FL

6d • Onsite

About The Position

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.
Coke Florida is looking for a Profit Growth Management Business Partner based out of our Tampa HQ area office, working Monday - Friday with occasional nights and weekends.
The Profit Growth Management Business Partner supports Coke Florida's commercial and customer constituents through collaborative evaluation of price, package, planning processes and decisions to deliver the company business objectives. As a key member within the Profit Growth Management & Planning team, the Business Partner 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 and consumer service models with effective program design
Allocate resources to optimize Coke Florida's business outcomes, while managing trade-offs and investment decisions
PGM & Planning to support Coke Florida's in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined and sustained profitable growth

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, Engineering disciplines OR equivalent entrepreneurial business experience with proven business and people leadership
• At least five (5) years of experience in the area of Business Management, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, or Operations
• Must be willing to travel 10% to 20% of the time
• Demonstrate the ability to use various tool sets available to resolve complex business situations. I.e., SAP, Microsoft Office Suite, Tableau, Access, SQL, etc.
• Must have strong end to end business understanding and capabilities

Nice To Haves

• Customer management or category management experience highly preferred
• Specific experience SAP APO and statistical modeling is preferred
• Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various means of learning methods
• Highly business process oriented
• Must be strong in entrepreneurial business acumen
• Must be courageous in thinking with the ability to weigh the available options considering the risk and rewards of the options
• Proven cross functional team collaboration at all levels of business

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross functional teams such as customer, marketing, field, planning, etc. to understand the business strategies and tactics needed to execute and deliver Coke Florida's organizational objectives
• Assess, evaluate forecast validity based on promotional activities or trends. Identify any risks or opportunities with recommendations to be evaluated for viability to operationalize that will mitigate our risks or expand our profit growth focus
• With focus on sustained profit growth, seek creative options to achieving optimal results. Full consideration of option to include the full P&L categories and not just price
• Partner with the Profit Growth Analysis team on modeling needs and output to enhance our options evaluation and post analysis processes
• Champion the ability to test pilot ideas with the intent to expand and scale optimal business driving initiatives
• Accountable for building the annual business plan in conjunction with customer teams with incorporation of marketing programs that will support execution and achievement of the plan
• Leverage’s insights, internal/external data to build the context in our decision support process
• Build the capability and business acumen of the key constituents supported by the business partners
• Develop the price package plan based on the prescribed objectives and initiatives
• Support in the definition and design of pricing architecture that enables coherence in the marketplace at the same time capturing opportunities based on market conditions
• Provide recommendation on pricing exceptions as submitted with consideration on the rationale and business impact including the investment decision choices
• Lead and evaluate the program design work needed to enable commercial execution in the marketplace, i.e., Local Independent customer programs, in market execution program for innovation items, etc.
• All other assigned duties relating to supporting Coke Florida's business needs

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level