Demand Specialist

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AWS, Azure, DevOps, Finance, KPI, Machine learning techniques, Supply Chain Management, Tableau

Job Description

Job Summary:

As a Demand Planning Expert at CPS, you will play a critical role in managing the short, medium, and long-term demand plans for several CPS plants. Your responsibilities emphasize close collaboration with Plant teams, particularly focusing on Planning & Logistics and Finance, as well as other Supply Chain Services functions, including Customer Management, Portfolio Management, and Material Management. Extensive collaboration with Bottlers, Operating Units, and Platform Services is essential.

This role leverages in-depth demand analytics and tool expertise to continuously improve the quality and accuracy of collaborative demand plans while ensuring an integrated and robust demand planning process is in place.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Demand Planning Management:

Strategic Demand Plans:

Collect information from Operating Units (OU’s) to build detailed concentrate sales demand plans (Rolling Estimate, Rolling submissions, Business Planning). Support business decision-making in collaboration with CPS Plant Leadership teams through ongoing activities like S&OP, Rolling Estimate, Business Planning, and Business Continuity Planning.

Governance on delivering BP to support business decisions.

Provide thorough analysis of demand plans, leveraging data segmentation to understand demand drivers, risks, and opportunities. Issue well-founded recommendations to Supply Chain Shared Services (SC SS) and Plant Leadership Teams (LT’s).

Lead Franchise Demand reviews for NextGen S&OP.

• Collaboration and Process Integration:

Routines and Support:

Establish and participate in routines with Customer Service teams, Bottlers, and OU key stakeholders to collaboratively refine demand plans for short and long-term horizons. This includes identifying demand issues and improving the quality of the demand signal to CPS, creating realistic consensus forecasts based on market and concentrate forecasts, inventory projections, and OU strategies.

• Data Management and Reporting:

Data Accuracy and Consistency:

Ensure system data accuracy through validation of weekly/monthly demand plans in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and master data maintenance.

Utilize end-to-end data in demand analytics such as bottler & OU forecasts, machine learning models, and market forecasts to drive system consensus on concentrate demand.

Ensure data consistency to build trust among supply, finance, and procurement teams.

• Advanced Reporting and Visibility:

Accelerate data visibility across supply chain teams and external partners through advanced reporting solutions and streamlining communication channels.

Present demand highlights and assumptions in an impactful manner to supply chain stakeholders.

• Process Improvement and Innovation:

Continuous Improvement:

Facilitate consensus on short, medium, and long-term demand plans by leveraging the S&OP process.

Continuously reassess and implement process improvement and automation opportunities to enhance efficiencies.

Actively participate in the implementation of new tools and processes such as IBP, Order and Replenishment Integration (ORI), Zombies, Product Rationalization, and others.

• Performance Metrics:

Report demand KPIs and establish root cause analysis and improvement actions in the demand field, positively impacting downstream processes and CPS global KPIs, Forecast accuracy, Inventory losses/shortages.

• Integration and Collaboration:

Seamless Execution:

Ensure the execution of internal and external demand planning processes in coordination with CPS plants and Operating Units.

Participate in the management and delivery of ongoing detailed demand requirements, enabling effective planning for immediate and long-term demand.

Qualifications & Related Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering or any related career.

• 3+ years’ experience in Customer Service or other related Supply Chain Area within multinational organization.

• Spanish is a mandatory for the position. Fluent written and spoken English with strong communication skills required. Ability to operate in multi-cultural environment. Portuguese is a plus.

Travel Requirements:

~5% travel time within Latin America mostly.

Relocation Provided:

No. The occupation of the position does not include relocation.

Other Competences Required:

Experience

• Strong Demand Planning /Supply Planning/Integrated Business Planning knowledge

• Analytical capabilities

• CPS operations and supply chain in depth understanding

• Financial acumen

• SAP p40 p08/IBP knowledge and advanced use of Excel.

• Power BI

Skills

• Collaboration in a multicultural, cross-organization environment.

• Team spirit – delivering work requiring contribution from multiple stakeholders and geographies

• High level communication skills and analytical skills

• Demand management techniques

• Statistics skills

• Excel advanced skills

• SAP, IBP

Competencies:

• Attention to detail

• Building value based relationships

• Contributing to team success.

• Planning and Organization.

• Communicating effectively.

• Delivering relevant local consumer strategies.

• Monitoring information.

• Understanding the business.

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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do 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.