Decision Support Business Analyst

Coke Florida Careers • Tampa, FL

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The Decision Support Business Analyst provides modeling and advanced analytical support as part of Coke Florida’s Business Intelligence Team. This cross-functional role works with Sales, Field Operations, Profit Growth Management, Finance, Enterprise Planning, and Marketing on areas including customer trade spend and investment, commercial agreements, supply chain, pricing, marketing investments, and working capital. The role also supports consensus forecasting, activity-based costing, and annual planning.

The analyst evaluates business programs, projects, launches, operational changes, and marketing investments to support decision-making; analyzes pilot performance using testing frameworks; maintains business tools and models; identifies reporting and process issues; and develops business scenarios, analyses, and executive summaries. The role is based at Coke Florida’s Tampa location and has a Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM schedule.

Coke Florida describes itself as a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that sells, markets, manufactures, and distributes more than 600 products. Employment is at-will. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and may provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, absent undue hardship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Operations, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in Business Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, or Operations, emphasizing analysis, modeling, or forecasting.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and modeling capabilities.
• Strong data literacy.
• Experience with data visualization using Tableau or Microsoft Power BI.
• Proficiency in other Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, Access, Word, and Visio.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of a Profit & Loss Statement.
• Ability to balance short- and long-term priorities while managing multiple complex tasks.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and support multiple stakeholders.
• Strong change-management skills.
• Ability to work independently with strong self-accountability.
• Entrepreneurial thinking to drive growth in total system profitability.
• Dedication to continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Management Consulting or Engineering experience.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Visual Basic, simulations, Solver, and SQL.
• Statistical analysis experience using R or a similar tool.
• Knowledge of Margin Minder (Salient Interactive Miner) or another data mining or sales reporting tool.
• Knowledge of SharePoint.
• Operational understanding of selling, distribution, warehouse, and production processes.
• Project management or facilitation experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct pre- and post-analysis of customer programs, strategic projects, new product launches, operational changes, and marketing investments to help the business make informed decisions.
• Analyze the performance of pilot initiatives using a testing framework such as A/B testing.
• Maintain and update required tools based on business requirements, including BPM or Route Planning models.
• Identify errors, inconsistencies, and gaps in reporting and processes, and provide solutions.
• Look for trends and patterns in reviewed information to identify enterprise gaps or opportunities.
• Support the design and development of tools that improve economic objectives and value-chain capabilities.
• Model business scenarios using known data sets and business requirements.
• Provide ad hoc analyses and reporting, and prepare executive summaries.
• Support consensus forecasting, activity-based costing, and the annual planning process.
• Perform other related and assigned duties.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans through Total Wellness Programs for eligible full-time associates.
• 401(k) program with company match.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation pay.
• Ten company-paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Competitive compensation.

What This Job Offers

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