Brandi Shortt
Appointed President and CEO of Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services in 2016, Brandi is responsible for providing strategic direction to the organization, as well as translating strategy into concrete action plans to advance the company. With ultimate responsibility relative to all business functions, Brandi leads the company in an innovative, customer-centric, engaging and effective manner. She reports to a Board of Directors that consists of senior executives from the top 17 U.S. Coca-Cola bottlers and Coca-Cola North America Operating Unit (NAOU) leadership. Brandi leads her organization with a particular focus on culture, employee experience and communications.
Brandi endeavors to efficiently lead CCBSS, which provides business and procurement services that make it simpler for suppliers, customers and bottlers to do business across the North America Coca-Cola bottling system. She is an accomplished executive leader who has been with the Coca-Cola system since 2004 working in the areas of supply chain, technology, strategy and operations. Her contributions to the Coca-Cola system include the definition and execution of company-wide strategies and roadmaps, as well as leading solution development for key initiatives such as warehouse and delivery operations and supply chain management.
Brandi has more than 25 years of progressive experience in strategy implementation coupled with deep beverage industry knowledge. Prior to her current position, Brandi held roles of increasing responsibility including that of Vice President, Strategic Execution and Group Director, Supply Chain Strategy with CCBSS Customer Business Solutions. Brandi led the development and execution of the CCNA supply chain program. Additionally, she was accountable for the development and implementation of transformational strategic initiatives across Coca-Cola Refreshment’s (CCR) North America business, which included warehouse automation. Brandi also has extensive analytics, forecasting, finance and business development experience. She began her career with The Coca-Cola Company as Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Analytics and Forecasting.
Before joining the Coca-Cola system, Brandi served as Sr. Manager, Global Supply Chain for Fisher Scientific where she was responsible for integrating the company’s global supply chain.
Brandi enjoys spending quality time with her family. She is also a voracious reader and avid runner.
