Dispatch Planning Manager

: Who We Are:

• 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.
• Coke Florida was named as a 2025 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.

What We Offer: 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 11 company paid holidays*
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Competitive compensation

Coke Florida is looking for a Dispatch Planning Manager to work out of our Tampa HQ area office, working Sun-Thurs from 2PM-11PM What You Will Do: The Dispatch Planning Manager will support and execute the strategy for the Profit Growth Management and Planning team. The Dispatch Planning Manager will manage all aspects of the field logistics planning team. As a team member within the Profit Growth Management and Planning team, the Dispatch Planning Manager will need to operate and embrace the team's principles of:

• Create "one" consensus forecast, an agree upon single source of truth to which all are accountable
• 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
• Profit Growth Management and Planning to support Coke Florida in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined and sustained profitable growth

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Supervisors and Collaborate with Field Sales, Customer Team, Operations, Customer Care Center, HR and other business function to effectively and efficiently serve our customers in line with our Segmenting for Value principles in conformity to Coke Florida's GTM Strategy
• Leverage the available to toolsets to deliver a balanced and effective plan that supports Coke Florida's Route to Market Strategy and its continued evolution of business models.
• Subject matter expert on all aspects of route planning and provide insights to areas of improvement in conjunction with system solutions resources to improve tool requirement, definition, and design.
• Analyze, evaluate, and interpret various data sources to enable well-defined and effective service models.
• Drive consistency in service standard across channels and customers and provide key insights to drive improved plans.
• Design and document standardized Planning processes and ensure compliance through training, coaching, and counseling.
• Have the mindset of business process integration considering dependencies that allow for improved and predictable business results.
• Be an advocate of assessing planned vs actualized to advance our understanding of what attributes may be causing gaps and opportunities.
• Contribute to team efforts by accomplishing related activities as needed.

For this role, you will need:

• Required BA/BS in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business or Logistics Management OR equivalent entrepreneurial business experience with proven business and people leadership
• Operational, entrepreneurial business experience required - minimum 3 years
• Must have strong business acumen
• Ability to solve complex problems through use of data, logic, and analytical thinking
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - with the ability to engage with all levels of the organization
• Evidence of progression in business or operational knowledge gained and applied
• People management experience preferred
• Project Management experience a plus
• Experience SAP/LEO highly preferred
• Strong attention to detail and business processes improvement
• Strong self-motivation to improve capabilities of self and others through various means of learning methods
• Able to build relationships in all functions of the business to build one team culture
• Able to navigate through complex business processes with understanding of upstream and downstream implications
• Able to leverage and use toolsets such as SAP, Tableau Office Suite Snowflake
• Proven cross functional team collaboration at all levels
• Must be willing to travel 10% to 20% of the time or as business require

This is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Coke Florida reserves the right to revise the at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed. Employment with Coke Florida is at-will. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship. Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.