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Director, Franchise Strategy Integration – India Independents + SWA
Job Descriptions Title: Director, Franchise Strategy Integration [India Independents + SWA]
Location – Gurgaon
What you’ll do for us:
This leadership role is responsible for supporting and challenging the Franchise team in implementing the commercial strategy and developing actionable commercial insights at market level. This will be achieved by:
- Collaborating with Franchise, Marketing, Finance and Commercial teams to define and adjust execution strategy
- Partnering with Franchise to lead system end-to-end alignment process with Bottlers at local level
- Pulling data & insights from identify granular opportunities and create actionable commercial levers at market level
- Identification and preliminary evaluation of strategic projects in support of the growth goals for the Franchise and managing the Franchise strategic project portfolio, working with Franchise teams and OU functions
- Measuring success or lack thereof, objectively feeding back the learnings from each project for future projects
This role will also work with the OULT on business critical, enterprise projects.
Work Focus
- Must be mastered in the development of actionable compelling consumer and commercial insights, strategies and initiatives at the market level
- 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
- Steward end to end alignment process with Bottlers. Aligning the bottler ultimately rests with the Franchise Lead
- Capture and network best practices, import and export good ideas
- Manage uncertainty and multiple stakeholders
- Role model the “Leadership in the Network” definition
Qualifications & Requirements
- +15 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy related areas
- Proven trajectory as leader of others and influencing a senior leadership team
- Able to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
Communication Focus
- Multiple top-level interactions and negotiations with senior management team members of KO System
- Strong influencing, presentation and communication skills to align strategies as well as build value-based relationships through numerous sensitive situations [typically with bottler]
- Ability to adjust to fit the audience with appropriate and relevant messaging
Skills:
User Experience (UX); Agile Methodology; Microsoft Office; Communication; Microsoft Azure Databricks; Business Process Modeling; Digital Transformation; DevOps; Enterprise Architecture Framework; Data Flow Diagram; Change Management; Cloud Platform
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.
