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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• Supply chain strategy project leadership/management – Own major transformation initiatives from ideation through final decision alignment and handoff to execution team
• 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
• Supporting analysis – Financial and operational analysis (Excel based); defining, interpreting, and utilizing analyses performed by other SMEs as required
• Negotiation management – External deal negotiations involvement (including leadership) of large production contracts and M&A transactions may be required
• 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

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 the work.
• Must have ability to lead through influence (vs direct authority) while maintaining a broad "general management" purview.
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