[Hiring] Director, Franchise Operations - Advanced Hydration @The Coca-Cola Company

Role Description

Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. As a Senior National Sales Executive, you’ll work to develop relationships with our customers and bring those brands to life all over the world. We are looking for people that have a passion for building relationships and will be proud to be a representative of our brands, are results-driven, and have national sales experience.

• Manages and leads collaborative business planning with the strategic goals to develop and execute key partnership initiatives, category programs, and drive brand sales.
• Contacts/visits customers to review and identify strategic direction, problem areas, and opportunities to promote product growth.
• Develops Account Business Plans including goals, key initiatives, major actions, key support needed, and new product recommendations.
• Develop relationships with all key decision makers, both internal and external.
• Collaborates and fosters relationships with our local bottling partners and distributor portfolio and builds sales capability and facilitate stewardship discussions.
• Develops direct supply chain strategy and activation of initiatives for driving efficiencies across the Coca-Cola North America Product Supply and Foodservice distributors operations.
• Keeps abreast of competitive activities within the responsible geographies and communicates appropriate activity in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with cross-functional representatives to ensure that Coca-Cola North America delivers the full depth and breadth of resources that result in mutual benefits/results.
• Leads the stewardship routines with responsible distributors that measures/communicates each partner’s activities against mutually agreed upon plans.
• Activates Coca-Cola North America’s category innovation (Freestyle, Tea, Refresh Server, Juice & VEB brands) at national and local levels with Foodservice distributor network.
• Champions change through elimination of barriers and ongoing service issues to provide the highest level of distributor customer service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required.
• 5+ years of national sales experience within the beverage or CPG industries.
• The ability to lead, prioritize, collaborate, and execute complex projects.
• Relationship management (suppliers, contractors, bottlers) knowledge of third-party supplier/contractor culture/core competencies is required.
• Knowledge of supplier capabilities and performance to enhance and manage relationships (specifically foodservice distributor suppliers) is required.
• Supply Chain operations and transportation expertise is needed, along with an understanding of transportation planning and management of DPU, Intermodal and Over-the-Road carrier network.
• Must possess the ability to seek alternatives and recommend best solutions that gain all parties support and lead to win-win results.

Benefits

• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.
• Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Company Description

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.