Director Supply Chain Planning

If you are a Strategic Thinker with a flair for operational efficiency, Supply Chain Management and a Senior People Leader we invite you to apply

**What You’ll Do for Us**
- Partake on the strategic vision of supply chain design and support its plan execution. Map the capabilities needed for the present and future business (including technological and digital needs) and expand a continuous improvement culture, both internally and towards the System in LATAM
- Route to Growth and Profitability: Enabling operational excellence through benchmarking, to run the business and promoting value chain changes to elevate System´s performance. Responsible for establishing and drive a productivity projects pipeline for the assigned territory, and as PMO follow-up implementation with the correspondent directors, VPs, project managers on committed projects, timeframe and expected results, providing directions for fast track and assignment of resource.
- Process owner of LATAM´s Productivity Program - develop and implement performance management system and routines to measure and track productivity initiatives and savings achieved, by working cross-functional with the organization, Bottlers and Suppliers. Responsible for development of a productivity scorecard and the roll-out of current Benchmark program with LATAM System.
- Lead South and Central Contingency and Business Continuity Plans, working in partnership with TI&SC teams (mainly Technical Operations) and commercial teams, sourcing entities, Bottlers and their associations and suppliers.
- In partnership with infrastructure team, deliver short-term efficient capacity solutions in a E2E SC perspective. Run capacity initiatives connected with long-term capacity plan for all categories with bottlers and Supply Chain partners in South and Central.
- Continue leading Roll-out of Next Gen S&OP in all Bottlers/countries prioritized in alignment with the Global Program
- Lead ES&OP, S&OP and S&OE agendas in partnership with plants, OU multifunctional teams and Bottlers (both Commercial and SChain stakeholders)
- Build a local responsive and resilient supply chain.
- Be part of a multifunctional team responsible for ESG in South and Central Zones
- Lead a team of 5-6 Supply Chain Professionals. Considered as a supply chain expert both internally and externally.
- Lead Supply Chain Strategy implementation in South (Brazil and South cone) and Central (Central America and Caribbean) regions
- Lead Strategic Initiatives from Business Case Development through Approval and to Implementation
- Lead Cross Functional Processes to ensure Alignment of Operational and Business Plans across functions and partners
- Serve as South and Central primary point of contact for Supply Chain Network to share and implement best practices locally.
- Lead Supply Chain communication with South and Central bottlers, contact manufacturers, suppliers, and other Coca Cola Company Supply Chain teams.
- Communicates for influence, action, and decision making with Supply Chain and across functional partners for resource allocation and decisions.
- Lead conversations with Commercial areas (Coca Cola Company and Bottlers) regarding Demand Planning, Forecast and Next Gen S&OP
- The role frequently deals with situations where bottlers and partners have shared strategic alignment but frequent operational misalignment.

**Qualifications & Requirements**

10 + years of Supply Chain experience with depth in one area of Supply Chain and breadth across multiple supply chain experience.

Experience with Supply Chain projects and initiatives concrete implementations. Franchise and Operational Leadership experience preferred.

Fluent English is required; Spanish is preferred;

**KEY Knowledge**:
**Mastery of **_(required)_**

1 Supply Chain Planning & supply chain analysis

2 operational efficiency and productivity levers

3 franchise leadership & stakeholder management

4 influencing and negotiation

5 contingency planning and BCP

6 S&OE, S&OP, DEMAND PLANNING

7 strategic sourcing and procurement

**Broad Expertise in **_(Good to have)_**

1 Supply Chain Strategy development

2 Infrastructure planning, Network Optimization

3 Team Leadership

4 SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE & KPIs

5 Digital Literacy & digital supply CHAIN

6 RTM, customer service

7 Program Management & benchmark methodologies

**Skills**

Supply Chain; Digital Literacy; Efficiency Improvements; Influencing; Supply Chain Strategies; Supply Chain Management (SCM); Influence; Productivity
**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 bel