Planner, Demand

Coke Florida Careers • Tampa, FL

20h • 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 Demand Planner based out of our Tampa Headquarters location. We’re currently looking for 8:30AM to 5:00PM, working Monday through Friday.
The Demand Planner will support all processes relating generation, assessment of the Demand Forecast that drives our supply chain process, resource allocation decisions and service our customer and consumer needs.
As a key team member within the Planning team, the Demand Planner 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 CCBF’s business outcomes, while managing trade-offs and investment decisions
PGM & Planning to support CCBF in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined & sustained profitable growth

Requirements

• Strong attention to detail and business process improvement.
• Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various learning methods.
• Ability to navigate complex business processes with an understanding of upstream and downstream implications.
• Strong business acumen.
• Proven cross-functional team collaboration at all levels.
• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operations Management, or Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in Business Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, or Operations.
• Strong forecasting and supply planning experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite.

Nice To Haves

• Project management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a statistical demand forecast based on a defined framework, applying promotional and lifecycle planning modules to create a rolling forecast with a specified time horizon.
• Evaluate the results of the statistical forecast at various levels (customer, location, package, material) against mid-term derived customer forecasts from the customer account management team.
• Understand variances and make necessary adjustments to reflect the most appropriate demand forecast results.
• Assist with the Sales & Operations execution process that drives the company's consensus forecast with key stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Production, Finance, Planning teams, etc.)3.
• Proactively assess forecast quality using trend analysis, forecast vs. actual results, and data input of volume by utilizing customer promotional calendars, history, and current information4.
• Collaborate with other planners (lifecycle, bottler to bottler, deployment, production, transportation) as needed to enable integrated planning activities and processes5.
• Support the management of material introduction and deletion for forecast needs, including re-alignment requirements of sales history.
• Support all related integrated planning requirements and/or other assigned projects.

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