Supervisor, Distribution

Facility Location
- Edmonton

Work Location
- Posting Locations - Edmonton, AB

Department - Edmonton Distribution Team 3

Job Function - Warehouse Operations

Employee Type - Regular Employee FT Salaried

Shift/Hours
- **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 the Market Unit Distribution Supervisor (a.k.a. Supervisor, Full Service Vending), you are responsible for managing the drivers and their day to day tasks. You will be required to work closely with a Team of Supervisors and be responsible for managing the Budget as well as working closely with the Fleet department managing the Asset availability. You will have a focus on our FSV Business driving profitable vending revenue and earnings from all vending equipment placements. Partnering with the Field Sales and Account Management Teams, you will support the deployment of equipment and service to maximize revenue potential across channels including Retail, On-Premise and Food Service customers. In addition, you will work with the Distribution, Equipment Service and Route planning teams to optimize service to manage efficiencies and overall operating costs.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with Full-Service Vending Planner to optimize efficient route scheduling.
- Manage Full-Service Vending drivers daily to ensure completion of assigned route and additional tasks.
- Provide training and develop all Full Serve Vending Drivers and relief personnel, including executing route rides to train, coach, evaluate, and motivate.
- Manage local customer relations pertaining to Full Serve Vending
- Provide updates to General Manager and Full Serve Vending Lead, as well as attend calls as required regarding Full Serve Vending and local sales
- Perform audits as required to ensure all tasks are completed, including and not limited to price changes, space to sales changes, and product rotation.
- Manage and review Coca-Cola’s KBI’s on an ongoing basis (e.g. cash yields, fill rates, low vends, scheduled vs. actual fills, etc.);
- Ongoing analysis of existing FSV business to improve profitability.
- Work with Field Sales team to provide education and guidance on Full-Service Vending Program.
- Assist Field Sales with growing FSV revenue through prospecting for new business and improving profitability of existing placements.
- Manage contractual relationship with our current Fee for Service (FFS) providers, including monitoring performance, reporting, invoicing, and regular business reviews.
- Additional tasks as assigned.

**Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary education is required preferably in Finance or Business Administration
- A minimum of 3 years of fact-based Field Sales, Distribution or Equipment Service Operations experience is required.
- CPG, Beverage Industry experience is preferred
- Demonstrated financial literacy and analysis
- Experience developing and presenting data driven business cases and recommendations
- Good understanding and appreciation of technology;
- Ability to make sound decisions and recommendations based on analytical evaluations;
- Understanding of and capability to utilize data sources
- Demonstrated analytical skills

**Important**:
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada”) 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 driver’s abstract review. In addition, all new employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide Coke Canada with proof of vaccination. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regard to any of the foregoing once you are contacted for further consideration.