Step into a key leadership role where your planning expertise directly impacts production, supply continuity, and business performance.
At Coca-Cola HBC, we are looking for an experienced Operational Planning Manager to lead our production planning and inventory management processes. In this role, you will coordinate complex supply chain operations, ensure seamless product availability, and drive cross-functional collaboration across manufacturing, quality, logistics, and commercial teams.
If you thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, can lead teams through operational challenges, and enjoy making data-driven decisions that shape supply chain success, this is the opportunity to take your planning career to the next level.
The Role
- Ensuring seamless production execution across our sites by leading short- and long-term production and capacity planning. Your team delivers optimized schedules that keep our plants running efficiently while minimizing stockouts and excess inventory.
- Coordinating daily with manufacturing, logistics, and quality teams to resolve operational bottlenecks, manage supply risks, and ensure the right products are available at the right time, including continuous supply to external depots and efficient depot-to-depot stock movements.
- Leading the planning response to unexpected disruptions—be it production delays, quarantines, or sudden product demand shifts—ensuring quick alignment across functions (manufacturing, quality, supply chain) to maintain product availability.
- Managing 12-week rolling production plans, focusing not only on execution but also on building robust forecast accuracy and scenario planning to increase long-term stability.
- Proactively driving change by identifying process gaps, implementing improvements, and fostering a culture where decisions are data-driven, and the team operates with agility under pressure.
Expectations
- Minimum 8 years of experience in end-to-end Supply Chain Planning beyond production scheduling, with a clear understanding of inventory, capacity, and supply constraints.
- Strong leadership mindset—you coordinate teams, manage complexity, and promote accountability.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity, solve problems fast, and make decisions under pressure.
- Fluency in English, with strong analytical skills.
- Experience with SAP S4HANA or Blue Yonder is a plus.
- Change-oriented, strategic thinker who challenges the status quo and leads process improvements.
What we offer
- Bonus
- Cafeteria
- Life and personal accident insurance
- Medical insurance (Medicover)
- Employee share program
- Internal training, coaching and mentoring programs
- Employee Assistance Program (life management and psychological counseling support)
- Discounted meals at the on-site cafeteria
- Unlimited product consumption at the workplace
- On-site gym available for employees
- Family days and events
About your new team
We are Coca-Cola Hellenic, a growth-focused consumer goods business and strategic bottling partner of the Coca-Cola Company. We bottle, distribute and sell an unrivalled range of products in 29 markets in Europe, Africa and Eurasia. As we do, we create value for all stakeholders, support socio-economic growth and build a more positive environmental impact.
We bring together more than 30,000 people from over 70 nationalities, coming from five continents. The diversity of our markets, from mature to emerging economies, provides a wide range of attractive opportunities for growth.
We nurture our talents. We give opportunities to people across all functions and levels, as well as different geographies, backgrounds and education. We are willing to take a risk on the people we believe in, even if they don’t have the perfect experience. We have faith in what every person can be.
And although we have so much to be proud of, we always stay humble. We believe the real magic happens – for us and for you – when we OPEN UP."
At Coca-Cola HBC, we are an inclusive employer that thrives on diversity. This means our environment provides equal opportunities for all, regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Join us in nurturing a culture where everyone belongs and contributes to our collective success.
