Route Optimization Strategist

6 days ago


Atlanta, Georgia, United States The Coca-Cola Company Full time
Job Description

Job Summary:

The Senior Manager, Route Optimization role is responsible for supporting the implementation of Route Optimization strategy within a specified set of channels. This individual must ensure the channel is well-equipped with the necessary tools, capabilities, and focus to ensure operational excellence from order to cash.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supports directors to build channel plans inclusive of customer leadership, bottlers, route to market, and CCBSS.
  • Supports system pilot operations in new channels with customer leadership and bottlers.
  • Identifies existing processes needing to be simplified, evolved, or digitized to meet the current or future needs of the enterprise.
  • Manages the mapping of existing processes, identifies fractures or opportunities to streamline, simplify, and develops solutions.
  • Leads project plans for any process improvement and develops/executes change management for stakeholders.
  • Designs, with system stakeholders, new processes to support route optimization models growth.
  • Supports stewardship of channel route optimization system plan and business results to bottler route optimization leads and channel leadership.
  • Supports development of necessary training to create sales capability to achieve route optimization execution objectives within the enterprise.
  • Supports local market partners, cold drink equipment, and DSD 2.0 team to develop long-term channel solutions to support growth targets.
  • Collaborates with bottlers and cross-functional colleagues (finance, legal, supply chain, customer leadership, CCBSS, category operations, system alignment, etc.) to deliver high-quality solutions and project outputs.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Strategic Thinking:
    • Ability to think critically without thorough system history to identify potential project blind-spots or barriers to change management process.
  • Project Management:
    • Collaborate and manage ambiguity with cross-functional departments on complex, multi-faceted projects.
    • Drive high team engagement through trust, transparency, and inclusive environment.
    • Strong communication skills and presentation skills to inform, ask, and/or act.
  • Relationship Management:
    • Builds strong relationships with business partners and key stakeholders.
    • Ability to challenge others and drive strategic ideas.

Qualifications and Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree required; Advanced degree preferred.
  • 5 or more years of relevant experience required.
  • Project Management certification highly preferred.
  • Knowledge and understanding of project management tools and software.
  • Strong change management capabilities.

Skills:

Pay Range: $116,500 - $145,800

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 15

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.

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.



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