Senior Manager Supply Chain Operations

Location(s):

Canada

City/Cities:

Toronto

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

September 13, 2023

Shift:

Summary:

The Senior Manager Supply Chain Operations is a key resource in the development and commercialization of innovation, as well as modifications to existing product and packaging to deliver cost savings, enable sustainability goals, and ensure regulatory compliance for North America. This role supports supply chain functions including, but not limited to order management, procurement, quality control, inventory management, production planning, material planning, warehousing and logistics. This role is also responsible for managing key project initiatives that will drive cost savings and cost optimization across all categories. This role works with internal and external Supply Chain organizations and Businesses to gather all pertinent costs, capacities, and constraints of the current infrastructure as well as all long-term volumes.

What You’ll Do For Us

• Identify key drivers of service to create solutions to decrease costs, increase quality and deliver additional improvements to our P&L.
• Develop and execute project plans and timeline
• Secure and manage cross-functional resources.
• Facilitate the identification of project risks and establish risk management plans.
• Lead projects and programs that are value and sustainability driven.
• Consult with and influence management, at various levels, in and across a wide variety of functions.
• Steward projects through the CIF process and maintaining Workfront records.
• Identify supply chain metrics (i.e. forecast variance, total spending, cost savings, etc) using data collection and survey reporting methods to monitor performance.
• Participate in the identification, development, and implementation of process improvements across the supply chain network.
• Develop and execute Design to Value project plans and timelines.
• Evaluate, monitor, and project long-term pipeline of cost savings and sustainability projects.
• Identify and recommend improvements to supply chain metrics and performance standards using research, supplier relationships, industry knowledge and best practices to secure benefits for the KO system, suppliers and/or the customer (e.g., cost savings, new technologies and innovations, operating efficiencies).
• Lead Design to Value routines that include system pipeline of cost savings projects with confidence levels.
• Implement process improvement initiatives (e.g., supplier or customer business processes and practices) to benefit the system and suppliers or customers by directing supply chain activities.

Position Requirements

Education -- Bachelor’s Degree Required, Master’s Degree Preferred

Travel Requirements -- Up to 25%

Related Work Experience: -- At least 5 to 7 years of work experience in Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Planning, Project Management, or relevant related field

Targeted Skills:

• Business Activity Processes: Ability to establish and define processes, and continuously monitor and improve processes to facilitate the execution of business activities.
• Distribution: Knowledge of distributor/distribution policies and procedures. Ability to understand costs/benefits of distributors and common carriers, third party capabilities, and distribution structures to support customer order processes, and product availability.
• Supply Chain: Knowledge of elements that make up the supply chain and the interrelationship between these elements. Ability to manage and execute strategies across the supply chain to reduce costs and gain efficiencies in the completion of a quality finished good. Ability to analyze, balance, synchronizes and synergizes all internal and external resources and assets to ensure the progress and ultimate completion of a finished good.
• Process Management: Process Benchmarking and Mapping: Knowledge of and the ability to apply skills in benchmarking and process mapping techniques across a supply chain (includes internal and/or third-party entities)
• Inventory Management: Optimize inventory levels using statistical models to design min/max/reorder levels. Knowledge of asset management procedures, policies and information used to optimize inventory levels and/or fill rates (e.g., balance inventory levels against inventory carrying costs).
• Program Management: Knowledge of program management techniques and practices to drive execution of multifaceted integration projects
• Process Improvement: Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and coordinate efforts around process improvement. Ability to analyze business processes and develop systems-based solutions that will improve current state.

What We Can Do For You

• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate, and innovate.
• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.

Skills:

Communication, Continuous Improvement (CI), Cost Analysis, Industrial Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Principles, Logistics Management, Material Handling, People Management, Production Planning, Production Scheduling, Product Launches, Purchase Management, Shipping, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Operations

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.