Director, Supply Chain Strategy

** About The Coca-Cola North America Supply Chain** :

The Coca-Cola North America supply chain is responsible for producing and delivering finished beverage products to our bottlers and customers across the US and Canada. These products include:

+ Hydration bottle/can products (e.g., Dasani, Powerade, smartwater, vitamin water, Gold Peak, etc)

+ Chilled products (e.g., Simply, Minute Maid, Honest branded refrigerated products)

+ Food service 'syrup' products (e.g., Coca-Cola and all other brands available at beverage dispensers at food service restaurants).

The Coca-Cola North America supply chain consists of owned manufacturing assets and contracted manufacturing partnerships with external 'co-manufacturing' parties along with a network of ambient and chilled warehouses and contracted freight carriers.

** Supply Chain Team** :

Comprised of internal technical, operational, and network management resources equipped with world class tools required for world class supply chain management.

+ Balances daily operational responsibility (product production and order fulfillment) with:

- Cost basis management
- Innovation support​- Infrastructure/capability evolution in order to maintain competitive advantage for the North America Operating Unit.

** Supply Chain - Strategy Team** :

Focuses on strategic supply chain related questions in North America (US, Canada, and Mexican exports to US). Focus areas include:

+ Network and infrastructure design

+ Production partnership strategy

+ Transformational capability enhancement

+ Each team member typically leads or supports 2-3 major projects at a time along with ongoing advisory and strategy support for a business segment.

** Role Scope** :

The Director of Supply Chain Strategy will typically lead a medium-complexity transformation initiative while serving as supporting member for other initiatives led by teammates. These initiatives may involve:

+ Production facility footprint changes (e.g., plant closures/consolidations/expansions)

+ New co-manufacturing partnerships

+ Major changes in product design or innovation support capabilities

+ Sustainability strategy

+ Enhancement to network management 'control tower' capabilities.

Leadership initiatives typically include:

+ Strategy development (identification of opportunity, options, evaluations, analysis, recommendations)

+ Stakeholder alignment

+ Decision making support (e.g., steering committee stewardship, business case development/representation)

+ Handoff to execution team (at point of completed legal agreements negotiated/finalized with co-manufacturers, final internal decisions made/approved, etc)

+ Ongoing support through implementation as appropriate.

New responsibilities/initiatives will be taken on as capacity permits with most initiatives expected to take 12-18 months of majority-capacity leadership by The Director - Supply Chain Strategy.

** What You'll Do for Us*
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** Supply chain strategy project leadership/management**  - Own major transformation initiatives from ideation through final decision alignment and handoff to execution team

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** Organizational alignment**  - Cross functional team leadership (non-reporting relationship - managing through influence), harnessing expertise of various SMEs as needed while creating materials required to align senior leadership on key decisions

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** Supporting analysis**  - Financial and operational analysis (Excel based); defining, interpreting, and utilizing analyses performed by other SMEs as required

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** Negotiation management**  - External deal negotiations involvement (including leadership) of large production contracts and M&A transactions may be required

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** Business Partnership**  - Partner with internal supply chain operations, technical, brand, commercial, customer, and bottler teams as required to develop solutions optimized for total system impact

** What You'll Need*
* The ideal candidate has a 'consulting skillset' - able to quickly learn opportunities/constraints/consideration factors for each part of the business required.

+ Must be able to break down complex problems with pragmatic structures, enabling broad working team to effectively engage the problem and advance…