As The Coca-Cola Company’s ambition to provide Beverages for Life and our North America’s portfolio continues to become more complex to keep up with changing consumer taste, our supply chain and operations must be able to keep up with building new capabilities and evolve, while sustaining our base business. The Company’s focus on both the topline growth (Net Revenue) and bottom-line growth (Operating Income) emphasizes the importance of planning, optimizing our supply chain, and constantly evolving to become as effective and efficient as possible.

NAOU’s manufacturing landscape has / is changed significantly over the last year and will continue to change as we move towards an “asset right” strategy. The Manager of Supply Chain Optimization – Transition planning is a strategically critical role that aims to use optimization and supply chain modeling to assist in plant closures, openings and line additions as we move towards this strategy.  In order to assist in these efforts this position will require development and maintenance of optimization models to answer strategic for cross-functional partners in engineering, commercial, finance and contract manufacturing through translation of model results into clear and concise presentations. This position will also assist in re-tooling our data workflows into our optimization modeling software as we transition to S4 (new version of SAP).

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage Transition Planning Modeling: Collect Data, develop and maintain models, and present findings to cross-functional partners

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, co-manufacturing to gather and analyze supply chain data such as implementation plans, forecasts, freight costs, manufacturing costs, capital requirements and production capacity to develop supply chain models
• Utilize LLamasoft / Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru to develop multi-period optimization models to develop inventory build plans, optimal customer sourcing for new sites and potential supply gaps during transitions
• Leverage results from optimization outputs to develop clear and concise presentations / recommendations to share across cross-functional partners
• Serve as Optimization and Supply Chain modeling SME to help tackle ad-hoc analyses and requests as they come from planning team
• Must be able to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously and independently

Re-tool model data workflows: Re-develop, refine and automate current data-flows to optimization software with new tools and systems

• Evaluate current data work-flow in LLamasoft’s Data-Guru and refine / re-create in Alteryx
• Work cross-functionally with platform services and capability and analysis center of excellence (CAPCOE) to re-develop data flows as systems transition to S4
• Train and maintain updated workflow within Capacity planning team and cross-train with CAPCOE to ensure redundancy in process
• Develop new features to work-flow as new requirements and automation opportunities arise

Presentation Development: Create presentations and recommendations for cross-functional partners

• Present project-based findings, insights and recommendations to cross-functional team (Contract manufacturing, engineering, finance and senior leadership)
• Summarize inventory build requirements, capacity shortfalls and supply gaps in clear and concise presentations
• Provide workstream and process updates to Planning leadership as needed

Training and Development: Train, mentor and coach analysts and interns

• Develop and update training materials and on-boarding schedule
• Provide coaching on projects and work to analysts and interns, work collaboratively with rest of E2E planning team
• Mentor and coach Senior Capstone Students from Georgia Tech

KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS

Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain
• 3-5 years of experience in areas like Finance, Supply Chain modeling, logistics, Manufacturing, or network optimization
• Experience in consulting is preferred
• Experience with Optimization Technologies Preferred
• Experience with Complex Database Design and Data Transformation and Automation Preferred
• Experience with Tableau Visualization and PowerBI Preferred

KEY KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Mastery of (REQUIRED)

• Integration and Automation of Data Feeds and Sourcing Databases
• Project Management Skills and Experience
• Presentation Skills (PPT and Oral)
• Optimization and Supply chain concepts
• Integration and Automation of Data Feeds and Sourcing Databases

Broad Expertise in (GOOD TO HAVE)

• People Leadership, Development, and Management
• Optimization software
• Experience in Sales and Operations planning

Skills:

Leadership; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); Manufacturing Costs; Alteryx; People Management; Analytical Techniques; Data Feeds; Database Design; Planning Operations; Tableau

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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