ROLE PROFILE
Supply Chain Optimization Manager
Reports to Sr. Director Supply Chain Optimization and Infrastructure Planning
KEY WORKING PARAMETERS
Focus, Scope, & Impact:
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.
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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 Supply Chain Optimization is a strategically critical role that aims to use optimization and supply chain modeling to assist in understanding capacity and cost savings opportunities across all time horizons (3 months - 10 + years). This role will drive S&OP, transition and infrastructure modeling.
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 maintenance and modification our data workflows into our optimization modeling software as business requirements evolve.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Rolling Estimate Modeling: Lead rolling estimate modeling process
- Utilize LLamasoft / Coupa's Supply Chain Guru or other optimization tools to develop / maintain multi-period optimization models to drive material procurement, warehouse, transportation, and manufacturing requirements planning
- Work cross-functionally with planning, co-manufacturing, finance and transportation to gather and analyze supply chain data such as production capacity, manufacturing run rates, manufacturing costs and transportation costs to refine rolling estimate modeling inputs to drive improved accuracy in outputs
- Co-lead NAOU NOW (Network Optimization Wiring) meetings to discuss month to month changes in rolling estimates and interpret / explain changes in output to cross-functional team members
- Act as optimization's point of contact to supply planning team to assist in scenario development and modeling
- Act as key voice for optimization teams capacity stages and gates process to bring projects into rolling estimate / S&OP process
- Leverage results from optimization outputs to develop clear and concise presentations for S&OP routines for 3-12 month capacity outlook
- 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
Transition Modeling: Develop / Maintain transition models for key additions / changes to capacity in the NAOU network
- 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 or other optimization tools to develop multi-period optimization models to develop inventory build transition plans, optimal customer sourcing for new sites and potential supply gaps during transitions
- Act as an extension of the supply planning team in major transitions to develop actionable plans with ability to react to changes in parameters in an agile manner
- Leverage results from optimization outputs to develop clear and concise presentations / recommendations to share across cross-functional partners (finance, planning, co-manufacturing, transportation, commercial, etc.) and senior leadership to evaluate options in times of transition
- Define current / future inventory targets based on changes to sourcing / available capacity in the network
Infrastructure Planning / Modeling: Collect Data, develop and maintain models, and present findings to cross-functional partners
- Co-manage Long Range Planning (LRP) process with demand planning to develop multi-year (3-10 years) supply vs. demand outlook
- Work cross-functionally (category teams, demand planning, finance, co-manufacturing, supply planning etc.) to develop regional supply vs. demand gaps to develop yearly capital investment roadmap
- Develop Greenfield models to determine where future infrastructure projects should go
- Establish future state warehouse requirements based on changes to inventory requirements and changes to WHS strategy (e.g. warehouse consolidation / new warehouses in the system)
- Leverage results from analysis to develop clear, concise, and compelling presentations to establish future needs for investments in capacity and supporting infrastructure
Re-tool model data workflows: Refine and automate current data-flows to optimization software with new tools and systems
- Work cross-functionally with platform services and capability and analysis center of excellence (CAPCOE) to maintain and modify data flows as system changes occur (particularly 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
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 and other universities
KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS
Experience and Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain
- 1-5 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 (Llamasoft, Supply Chain Strategist, profit point, AIMMS, River Logic, etc.)
- Experience with Complex Database Design and Data Transformation and Automation Preferred
- Experience with Tableau Visualization, PowerBI Preferred
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
- Integration and Automation of Data Feeds and Sourcing Databases
- Project Management Skills and Experience
- Presentation Skills (PPT and Oral); Executive Presentation Experience
- Optimization and Supply chain concepts; Optimization software
- Leadership, Development, and Management Capabilities
- Experience in Sales and Operations planning
- Experience in at least one supply chain function (manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, or procurement)