Work Location – Brampton, ON
Posting Locations – Barrie, ON
Department – Direct Materials Planning & Procurement
Job Function – Other Talent Area
Employee Type – Regular Employee FT Salaried
Shift/Hours –
About Us
About Us
Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling!
Coke Canada Bottling is Canada’s premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.
We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.
We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.
Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life™, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq’s®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.
About This Opportunity
As in integral part of our supply chain this role is key in the management of our raw material vendor relationships. Working with internal stakeholders and systems to understand the demand signal, providing a regular rolling forecasts of material needs to suppliers, liaising with suppliers in identifying business continuity risks and working with both internal and external partners as part of a team to develop continuity of supply plans to support our business needs. This role also manages the tracking of working capital, raw material runouts and write off budgets for any SKU delists.
This role is also a key linkage between the commercial and marketing side of the business and operations. You will be a key part of the team bringing new SKUs to market. Actions include management of operational changes to your raw material portfolio e.g. graphics changes, reformulation, and new promo items. Actions include master data set up, working with vendors to ensure the required materials are ready for the in-market date.
This is a hybrid position based out of our Brampton facility. You are required to be in office 2 times per week.
Responsibilities
Communicate rolling production plan to our key suppliers to ensure supply continuity to meet the needs of the Business Unit.
Coordinate raw materials supply program with our supplier network to meet the in-market calendar of the business, along with assuring regional balancing of various raw materials in our facilities
Ensure the integrity of the SAP Production and Capacity Modules; ensure full utilization to ensure accurate raw materials to support the MRP cycle.
Work with our manufacturing sites & Supply Planning to ensure that Working Capital targets are achieved on raw & packaging inventories, including publishing monthly scorecards.
Publishing and supporting the monthly WC reports for raw materials, concentrate and concentrate in transit.
Publishing DOH report weekly for concentrate ordering process, monitoring of raw #11 order status vs annual contract, tracking other ingredient forecasts and supply
First point of contact with supplier and/or plant and/or Commercialization with any minor change that impacts our production facilities, such as raw materials specification changes.
Lead contingency options for plants/co-pack if supply of any minor material does not meet the production needs of the business.
Track the supplier performance (OTIF, Lead-time adherence, DOS …etc.), ensuring corrective action & communicate all related information to plant personnel, supplier, and Procurement.
Responsible to reduce/eliminate the obsolete material through proper coordination between plant/supply planning/Commercialization, communicate write-offs per plant on monthly reports.
Back up support for concentrate manger role
Qualifications
Minimum 2-3 years of experience in a supply chain planning or procurement environment
Well-developed Influencing Skills – Able to guide decisions based on solid facts, analysis and conclusions through all levels of the production facility and supply chain along with the supplier network.
Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills – Ability to lead cross functional group including Planning, Manufacturing, Commercialization and Suppliers to execute a minor raw material change within the network while balancing high customer service with plant efficiency.
Experience with strategic sourcing and demonstrated implementation of cost savings initiatives.
Capable of managing multiple priorities.
Experience in project management.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Lync, etc.
Strong proficiency with SAP/ERP required
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Finance/Accounting, Business Administration or Engineering
CPM, CMA, CSCMP, APICS or other related certification
OE/Six Sigma Certified
Important
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.
Coke Canada Bottling is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce with several programs, policies and resources in place to support our people. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition Services team by calling 1-844-383-2653
For more information about Coke Canada Bottling, please visit cokecanada.com
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