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Strategy Senior Manager
Focus, Scope, & Impact:
This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the Japan and South Korea Operating Unit (OU) landscape to provide Guidance on Where to Play & How to Win as well as guidance on Innovation Strategy. By leading the Strategic Insights agenda and partnering across Functions and across the System, this role ensures the System wins in the local market. The role leverages data and high quality insights anchored in facts and judgement to impact business results. This will require the following:
- Localize the global strategy, defining how to win by channel / customer/ region, and identifying long-term strategic opportunities, including whitespace opportunities and challenges
- Lead Integrated Insights for the OU and Japan, building both the Integrated Insights Strategy as well as drive the Delivery incl. Trend forecasting/ Opportunities & Challenges, Competitive intelligence development, Portfolio optimization & innovation effectiveness and Challenging & optimizing performance
- Leverage high-level competitive insights to facilitate robust decision making, wiring the OU together and connecting with the broader TCCC network as well as bottling partners
- Create and connect insights to frame and align on prioritization of key issues and opportunities and delineate choices to inform OU strategic priorities
- Act as an “in house” consultancy partner, structuring and leading ad-hoc cross-functional analysis or projects
- Building future insight capabilities by interfacing with Platform Services (PS), Center & OU Functions to secure the right and new knowledge & insights
- Explore and Build External connections to leverage opportunities through networks
Scope:
- Japan & Korea Operating Unit (2 Operations, 2 Countries)
- 6 bottlers, including 1 of the Top 5 bottlers worldwide
- Goals and/or strategies for the role focus both short and mid-term / long term priorities
Impact:
- Profile: Thought leader who influences leaders across different functions in the OU (including Marketing, Franchise, Commercial, Finance, Technical, among others)
- Reporting to OU Strategic Insights Lead.
KeY SUCCESS PARAMETERS
Experience
- 5+ to 10 years of experience in several Business Development roles, such as Strategy, Planning, Insights, Consulting, PMO, among others
- Proven trajectory as thought leader, cross functional teams’ coordination and alignment, and influencing senior leadership team
Work Focus
- Ability to integrate multiple insights and complex issues through a broad and holistic approach, defining the strategic direction for the business and leading to actionable solutions
- Partners with senior leaders to orchestrate and wire the strategy and solution deployment, prioritizing efforts, influencing, aligning and engaging key stakeholders
- Ability to partner with senior leaders to develop, localize, enhance and deploy insights that drive strategic decision making at OU level and across functions
Ability to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple countries into an OU-specific perspective without losing the power of local insights. Understands the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business
Skills:
Customer Experience (CX); Influencing; Continual Improvement Process; Business Transformation; Collaborative Leadership; Business Processes; Industry Networking; Project Management; Trend Analysis; Agile Methodology; Microsoft Office; Process Management; Communication; Long Term Planning; Corporate Storytelling
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do 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.
