Director, Franchise Strategy

Role Overview

• Lead the Strategy team in CBP while becoming a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior leadership in the region.
• Responsible to find opportunities or course correction of ‘where to play’ and ‘how to win’ and to anticipate potential impacts of competition on our business performance.
• Orchestrate the Long-Range Planning (5 year) process across the system and lead the key results target setting and insights sharing.
• Lead Strategy’s translation into volume and value goals, helping define future ambition through thought leadership, industry understanding, growth option identification, decision-making criteria definition, and opportunity prioritization.
• Participate with a key role in ABP process: align and contribute to the overall strategy, Roadshows, insights sessions, strategy, and forecast key business results (in coordination with Finance and other relevant functions).
• Support leadership agendas by suggesting and ensuring alignment of hot topics and setting the agenda.
• Maximize the network within other Strategy teams and vendors to deliver key insights to the local business.
• Develop deep dives to identify granular opportunities and create actionable initiatives at local level.
• Develop actionable and compelling commercial insights, strategies, and initiatives.
• Use a fact-based, strategic approach to identify the insights, strategies, and leading-edge solutions to boost local/granular commercial strategy with actionable commercial levers.
• Project Management and Strategic Processes leadership.
• Capture and network best practices, import and export good ideas both locally in the OU and globally.
• Manage uncertainty and multiple stakeholders.
• Write and present effectively; adjust to fit the audience with appropriate and relevant messaging at all levels of the System.
• Comfortable with indirect influencing and indirect managing /coordinating.
• Capable to work and adapt within a multi-cultural environment.

Requirements

• • 10 years of Business and/or functional experience in Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Business Intelligence or other related areas.
• Proven trajectory of collaborating and influencing multifunctional peers.
• Experience working with external providers, such as Nielsen, Scanntech, Kantar Worldpanel and/or Euromonitor is a plus.
• Able to work in a diverse cultural environment, efficient communicator, and influencer.
• Fluency in English and Spanish.
• Franchise leadership/negotiation: to drive better conversations into practical applications.
• Solid business acumen skills: ability to translate data and insights to contribute to key business decisions making.
• Tools: Advanced Excel and PowerPoint are must haves.
• PowerBI and other Data Analytics tools will be a plus.
• Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connecting the dots to develop a holistic approach in creating strategy.
• Synthesis and storytelling: Communicate, influence, and convince stakeholders through a structured, fact base and action-oriented storytelling.
• Organization and focus: prioritize through a pragmatic fact-based approach, handling trade-offs, balancing immediate and long-term priorities.
• Problem framing and problem-solving: ability to structure and coordinate / lead cross functional complex analysis, initiatives, or efforts.
• Systemic thinking: Comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to challenge the status quo.

Benefits

• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Powerade, and more.
• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, and restaurants.
• Purpose Driven: Purpose driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products.
• Global Connections: Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
• Community of Belonging: We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.