Transportation Planner

• 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 2024, for the 3rd 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.

• 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 Transportation Planner based out of our Tampa HQ location. We're currently looking for Monday through Friday, working normal business hours.

What You Will Do:

As a Coke Florida Transportation Planner, you will be responsible for balancing service and cost for all processes and functions of load planning and freight movement. They will facilitate the distribution of freight based on the evaluation of carrier rates, operation capabilities, capacity commitments, and delivery dates required from deployment. This will primarily be done through the utilization of BluJay software. The nature and scope of this role is to consider freight strategies and optimize shipments and their cost for loads that come through BluJay. The overall scope is to ensure that execution is carried out through balance of service commitments and cost-effectiveness while maintaining strong relationships with carriers, shipping locations, and delivery locations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plans inbound/outbound truckload shipments within the Transportation Management System to ensure that cost and service goals are accomplished by utilizing the resources andtools that are provided.
• Tender shipments in accordance with Coca-Cola Beverages Florida business rules and communicate with carriers to ensure that loads can meet their delivery commitments. Assess the trade-offs between costs and service and communicate with management.
• Coordinate with deployment planners, receiving locations, and carriers to ensure on-time delivery, estimating times of arrival and delivery, and recovering loads when necessary. Trace loads using BluJay and shipment monitor. Determine root cause and apply corrective action to shipments tracking late; communicate solutions to all stakeholders.
• Maintain BluJay BI reporting and carrier key performance indicators (KPI's) and marry up against our performance objectives. Reconcile daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and distribute to our internal key players and management.
• Assist in the completion of multi-functional projects in the area of Operations, Forecasting, Supply Chain and Logistics as assigned.
• Develop regular supply optimization and transportation initiatives to drive high customer service while achieving inventory targets, process efficiencies, and reduced costs.
• All other assigned duties relating to supporting Coca-Cola Beverages Florida business needs

For this role, you will need:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience related to Logistics, Operations Management, Business Administration, Materials Management, or Warehouse/Manufacturing
• 1+ years of experience in utilizing a Transportation Management System
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing/Just in Time Principles
• Proficiency in MS Office is essential
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic environment and work effectively within a flat organization
• Demonstrate sound judgment by making decisions based on bettering the total network and being able to support decisions with facts, taking responsibility for actions
• Ability to prioritize and manage time/commitments and adjust to changing priorities as needed in order to complete tasks within desired timeframes
• Attention to detail and business process improvement
• Self-motivated to improve capabilities of self and others
• Good cross functional team collaboration at all levels
• Must be willing to travel 10% of the time