What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Supply Chain Design and Optimization position at Coca-Cola?
Position Overview :
As a member of the Infrastructure Planning team, this role plays an integral part in enabling NPSG's mission of supporting all Regional Producing Bottlers (RPBs) by maximizing System production efficiencies and market opportunities to strengthen the competitiveness of the Coca-Cola System in the United States. This position plays a vital role in : (1) Designing, Deploying, and Maintaining Network Optimization Models, (2) Developing tools and processes to assess long range production capacity and mitigation plans, (3) Preparing insights and facilitating long-range planning routines with Bottling Partners, (4) Performing analysis and business case development of capital investment and divestment opportunities.
The Director, Supply Chain Design and Optimization has extensive experience in supply chain design and optimization and can synthesize insights from complex, system-based evaluations. This role is responsible for the development and maintenance of core tools and processes that enable multi-year, strategic planning across the US Bottling System. In addition, this role will oversee multiple large-scale, complex initiatives and provides coaching and mentoring to other analysts through their project work.
These activities require strong analytical capabilities, extensive network modeling software knowledge, an ability to collaborate and manage cross-functional project teams, experience with change management best practices, demonstrated ability to mentor and develop the skillset of others, and effective communication of complex analysis to multiple levels of stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a passion for problem solving and a strong curiosity as to the reasons behind outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities :
Design, deploy, and maintain a network optimization model to identify investment and divestment opportunities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the RPB / Bottler network optimization model utilized by the Infrastructure Planning Team, responsible for ongoing maintenance throughout the year
- Utilize Lyric software suite to create a model that represents a network consisting of 15 producing Bottlers, ~ 60 Production Locations, and ~ 330 distribution centers
- Conduct assessments of various capital investment and divestment opportunities across the System (e.g., plant consolidations, greenfield site analysis, capability additions, new production lines)
- Partner with other NPSG teams and RPBs to collect and analyze supply chain data such as volume forecasts, freight costs, manufacturing costs (fixed and variable), capital requirements, and production capabilities
- Ensure model input data is accurate and develop necessary sensitivity framework to account for variations in assumptions and time horizon
Ownership of multi-year capacity tools and routines
Support the development of NPSG's Strategic Infrastructure Plan (SIP)
Develop business cases in support of supply chain infrastructure strategies (project specific work)
Train, mentor, and coach Supply Chain Managers
Lead continuous improvement initiatives within NPSG
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Skills :
Product Launches; Continual Improvement Process; Purchasing Management; Lean Manufacturing; Supply Chain Management (SCM); Logistics Management; Industrial Engineering; Production Planning; Lean Principles; Materials Handling; Supply Chain Operations; Communication; People Management; Shipping; Production Scheduling; Cost Analysis
