Planner, Vending-bilingual-eng/fr

**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**:
The Planner, Vending will be designated to support multiple Distribution Centers accross Canada. As a Planner, Vending you will be responsible for maintaining proper invenotry required for fulfilling the demand within all vending outlets.

This is a hybrid position, you are required to be in our Brampton office 2 days a week.
- **Must be BILINGUAL- English and French, proficient in speaking and writting**

**Responsibilities**:

- Planning activity to maintain proper inventory required for fulfilling demand requirements within all vending outlets.
- Achieve optimal Key Performance Indicators: Reduce/prevent out of stocks, increase driver productivity through higher cases per fill, Increase Schedule vs fill through creation of realistic routes
- Accurately process and schedule Customer Service Tickets within designated milestones.
- Root cause analysis on Out-of-Stock flavor, customer service ticket and address root cause while scheduling service. (Example: schedule space to sales change, etc.).
- Incorporate data integrity resolution, and Equipment movement Order activity into the daily Driver schedule.
- Select outlets for service based on standard scheduling guidelines and include local considerations (Collective Bargaining Agreement, Department of transportation requirements, etc.) in driver workday.
- Within individual outlets being scheduled, identify outlet sales trends, and recommend appropriate adjustments (increase call day, change machine type, etc.) in collaboration with Vending Manager.
- Accurate maintenance and scheduling of service groups or vendor banks.
- Accurate and timely create and update planograms (SAP)
- Collaborate with Vending Manager to identify efficiency gaps
- Communicate and collaborate with Full-Service Supervisor to address local issues and opportunities and with our external customer
- Identify the root cause discrepancies from actual revenue vs the expected revenue

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or College Diploma in related discipline
- Minimum 3 years of experience in transportation, logistics or distribution
- ** Bilingual - French & English**:

- Experience in vending would be an asset
- Advanced level of MS Office
- Experience working with SAP
- Strong analytical aptitude
- Demonstrated ability to effectively organize and plan
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

**Important**:
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) 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 drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.

Coke Canada Bottling is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce with several programs, policies and resources in place to support our people. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition Services team by calling 1-844-383-2653