Fountain Ops & Channel Development Manager (Finance)

Fountain Ops & Channel Development Manager

Tampa, FL, USA Req #46611

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Who We Are:

• 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.

What We Offer:
Eligible full time Coke Florida Associates can participate in our Total Rewards Program which includes:

• 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 searching for a Fountain Ops & Channel Development Manager to work out of our Tampa area facility, working Monday - Friday with occasional nights and weekends.

What You Will Do:

The Channel Development Manager "CDM" reports to the Director, Fountain Operations & Channel Development. The main objective is to implement our Business Strategy and develop actionable insights for local market customers across key Food Service On Premise channels. In addition, a successful Channel Development Manager would leverage a two-prong approach not only developing priorities for the channel but also engaging the field team and building capabilities to support our field team in becoming a world class selling organization.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Actively manage FSOP principles to achieve annual business plan objectives including: Weekly/Monthly performance management stewardship; Revenue, Gross Profit, Net Outlet growth and FSOP strategic initiatives
• Monitors performance versus execution objectives, re-plans as necessary and provides feedback to key stakeholders
• Have the ability to create both front line and Executive level presentations inclusive but not limited to performance, category insights, marketing programs etc.
• Ability to communicate with C-Suite level executives
• Collaborate with internal Business Partners (PGM, Marketing, Finance) to support the development of programming that will accelerate incremental business and exceed program objectives; where applicable
• Conduct post promotional analysis measuring the success levels of for your designated channel strategies and provide feedback to leader on market trends
• Work with Marketing team to develop local channel customer marketing programs
• Work with Category Management to gain key market and customer insights
• Build front line engagement with your assigned channels
• Aid in picture of success creation for your assigned channels and measure marketplace execution

For this role, you will need:

• At least 3 years of experience in the consumer goods industry
• Experience working with Nielsen and other syndicated data
• Experience influencing effective negotiation and selling

Additional Qualifications that will make you successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Change agent who thrives in a fast pace, ever changing environment
• Direct Store Delivery (DSD) and/or beverage category experience preferred
• Strong communication skills (Listening, Speaking, Writing, Inquiring)
• Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connecting the dots to develop holistic approach.
• Attention to detail
• Strong collaboration skills
• Analytical thinking (Strategic Thinking Systematically, Problem Solving)
• Consumer Goods and Beverage Industry knowledge
• Customer focused

This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Coke Florida reserves the right to revise the job description at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed.

Employment with Coke Florida is at-will. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Other details

• Job Family Commercial Leadership
• Job Function Corporate Development
• Pay Type Salary

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initStaticMap(true); Coke Florida is searching for a Fountain Ops & Channel Development Manager to work out of our Tampa area facility, working Monday - Friday with occasional nights and weekends. What You Will Do: The Channel Development Manager "CDM" reports to the Director, Fountain Operations & Channel Development. The main objective is to implement our Business Strategy and develop actionable insights for local market customers across key Food Service On Premise channels. In addition, a successful Channel Development Manager would leverage a two-prong approach not only developing priorities for the channel but also engaging the field team and building capabilities to support our field team in becoming a world class selling organization. Roles and Responsibilities: Actively manage FSOP principles to achieve annual business plan objectives including: Weekly/Monthly performance management stewardship; Revenue, Gross Profit, Net Outlet growth and FSOP strategic initiatives Monitors performance versus execution objectives, re-plans as necessary and provides feedback to key stakeholders Have the ability to create both front line and Executive level presentations inclusive but not limited to performance, category insights, marketing programs etc. Ability to communicate with C-Suite level executives Collaborate with internal Business Partners (PGM, Marketing, Finance) to support the development of programming that will accelerate incremental business and exceed program objectives; where applicable Conduct post promotional analysis measuring the success levels of for your designated channel strategies and provide feedback to leader on market trends Work with Marketing team to develop local channel customer marketing programs Work with Category Management to gain key market and customer insights Build front line engagement with your assigned channels Aid in picture of success creation for your assigned channels and measure marketplace execution For this role, you will need: At least 3 years of experience in the consumer goods industry Experience working with Nielsen and other syndicated data Experience influencing effective negotiation and selling Additional Qualifications that will make you successful in this role: Bachelor's degree preferred Change agent who thrives in a fast pace, ever changing environment Direct Store Delivery (DSD) and/or beverage category experience preferred Strong communication skills (Listening, Speaking, Writing, Inquiring) Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connecting the dots to develop holistic approach. Attention to detail Strong collaboration skills Analytical thinking (Strategic Thinking Systematically, Problem Solving) Consumer Goods and Beverage Industry knowledge Customer focused

• Tampa, FL, USA