Director - Planning, Commercial Operations

Coke Florida Careers•Tampa, FL

1d•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. The Director- Planning, Commercial Operations has a leadership role in the integration of strategy and execution for the field operations in an end to end view to enable optimized internal and external customer service. Functions include Supply, Transportation, Sales/Distribution Route Planning, Equipment Planning and Dispatching. As a key leader on the Planning, Commercial Operations team, the Director will need to embrace the team’s principles of: 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 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 Planning, Commercial Operations strives to support Coke Florida in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined and sustained profitable growth.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, or Engineering disciplines
Entrepreneurial business experience with proven business and people leadership is highly preferred
Ten (10) plus years of operational experience with strong preference with supply chain, field operations with management of multiple functions and teams
People leadership experience required with role and scope progression
Specific experience in SAP APO or Blue Yonder highly preferred
Strong adoption of the Coke Florida norms of positivity, respect, commitment, responsibility, teamwork, safety, results & integrity
Must have strong end to end business understanding and capabilities
Must be a problem solver & solutions oriented
Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various means of learning methods
Strong communicator verbally & written. Must be able to present well in front of groups
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
A team builder who leverages team and teammates strengths
Proven cross functional team collaboration at all levels of business
Demonstrate the ability to use various tool sets available to resolve complex business situations. I.e. SAP, Blue Yonder, Microsoft Office Suite, Tableau, Access, SQL, Power BI, Margin Minder, etc. (Strong Excel skills needed)
Willingness to work outside normal business hours as needs arise
Must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time

Responsibilities

Collaborate with all key commercial and operational leaders on the strategic design of Coke Florida’s route to market for the optimal service model
Leader of leader role to translate strategy to executional direction to effective supply chain and commercial operations processes that creates accountability based on Coke Florida strategic priorities and initiatives
Manage business processes and system enablement to allow for effective and efficient demand forecast processes that feed into supply network planning to enable Coke Florida to maximize growth with produced & purchased products
Enables integration points that will allow Coke Florida to support a collaborative operating model at the right cost and service segmentation. Proactively looks for business process improvements that enhances total team performance
Able to take the organizational vision into action that will provide the right work processes and workflows
Lead the team to the right option/decision based on available data and insights that supports total system thinking
Provide short, mid, and long-term view of supply needs with the foresight to manage resource constraint balance with servicing the needs of Coke Florida customers and consumers
Works collaboratively with key business leaders and peer group to deliver the needed business solutions and processes
Innovative thought leadership while working through others to achieve the needed business outcomes
Lead and implement new Transportation initiatives through RFP and other negotiations with transportation/bottling/NAOU partners
Oversee all aspects of Alternative Delivery Modes from orders to end use customers
Other assigned duties supporting Coke Florida business needs