Demand Planner

10117 Princess Palm Ave, Tampa, FL 33610, USA

Posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Who We Are:

• Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that is the third largest privately‑held and the sixth largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States.
• Coke Florida sells, markets, manufactures and distributes over 600 products of The Coca-Cola Company and other partner companies including Monster Beverage Corporation and BODYARMOR.
• In 2026, for the 5th year in a row, Coke Florida was named as a US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal. This program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture, and governance/financial performance.

Eligible full time Coke Florida Associates can participate in our Total Rewards Program which includes:

• Total Wellness Programs including health, dental and vision plans
• 401K program with healthy company match
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Three weeks of vacation pay, and 10 company paid holidays*
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Competitive compensation

Coke Florida is looking for a Demand Planner to work our of our Tampa HQ location.

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family‑owned independent Coca‑Cola bottler that is the third largest privately‑held and the sixth largest independent Coca‑Cola bottler in the United States. Coke Florida sells, markets, manufactures and distributes over 600 products of The Coca‑Cola Company and other partner companies including Monster Beverage Corporation and BODYARMOR. Coke Florida was named as a 2023 US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal.

This program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture, and governance/financial performance.

The Demand Planner will support all processes related to the generation and assessment of the demand forecast that drives our supply chain process, resource allocation decisions, and services our customer and consumer needs. This role is crucial in ensuring that our products are available to meet customer demand while optimizing inventory levels.

As a key team member within the Planning team, the Demand Planner will need to operate and embrace the team’s principles of:

• Create “one” consensus forecast, an agreed upon single source of truth to which all are accountable enabled through cross functional team input, technology and business insights
• Manage integrated business processes of planning to effectively deliver desired customer value propositions
• Enable execution of segmented customer & consumer service models with effective program design
• Allocate resources to optimize CCBF’s business outcomes, while managing trade‑offs and investment decisions
• PGM & Planning to support CCBF in making its next best decision with end to end thinking to deliver disciplined & sustained profitable growth

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a statistical demand forecast based on a defined framework, applying promotional and lifecycle planning modules to create a rolling forecast with a specified time horizon.
• Evaluate the results of the statistical forecast at various levels (customer, location, package, material) against mid‑term derived customer forecasts from the customer account management team.
• Understand variances and make necessary adjustments to reflect the most appropriate demand forecast results.
• Assist with the Sales & Operations execution process that drives the company’s consensus forecast with key stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Production, Finance, Planning teams, etc.)3.
• Proactively assess forecast quality using trend analysis, forecast vs. actual results, and data input of volume by utilizing customer promotional calendars, history, and current information
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• Collaborate with other planners (lifecycle, bottler to bottler, deployment, production, transportation) as needed to enable integrated planning…