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Consultant, CCL – Channel Planning & Market Execution, Customer Management Group

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At Coca-Cola, our vision is to create loved brands, done sustainably, for better shared future. We strive to provide marketing leading excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. We are currently seeking a Channel Planning & Market Execution Consultant who is experienced in developing and implementing channel and customer marketing and sales plans.

What You’ll Do for Us

Lead the development of channel activation plans and execution assets that are designed in a customer-back and consumer-centric way.
Consolidate shopper, channel and customer insights to input into the development of the brands’ strategy to increase value of their deliverables to accelerate growth in a networked approach.
Develop strong shopper, commercial and customer-relevant marketing programs to drive basket incidence.
Drive Best-In-Class store execution across key account channels in close collaboration with Franchise, Frontline, Marketing and customer Teams.
Co-ordinate with Key Account and Customer HQ and regional teams to ensure smooth execution of integrated brand campaigns.
Managing recee of stores for any category branding/ initiative execution with local account resources and vendor partners.
Central coordinator with bottler teams for execution of Premia, Merchandise, POSM – Check if POSM/ marketing activation elements has reached/ executed.
MIS & Business intelligence: Pre-align metrics and scorecards for integrated execution programs and maintain trackers to review and publish post execution results & learnings
End to end vendor management for CMG projects: Vendor shortlisting and alignment with procurement for CMG execution, PO generation, Vendor GRNs and payment process including handling of SAP GRN’s, invoice validation for all NKA vendors on behalf of CMG team, handling vendors queries as well as arrange for any documents/ approvals required on behalf of the CMG team
Logistics tracking of supplying good/merchandise to stores/ regional offices/ bottlers with the help of our vendor partners

Qualifications & Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Sales or Marketing, Business or related field
5+ years of experience in brand activation planning and execution including designing of shopper programs, merchandising development and vendor coordination.
Exposure and understanding of channels like MT Retail are a must.
E-Com, QSR and travel would be added advantage.
Brand, Trade/ Shopper/ Customer Marketing experience required
Previous experience in a face-to-face customer sales or operations role calling on senior level buyers, general operations experience and project management experience are all ideal.
Experience in external vendor management
Proven analytical skills as well as outstanding influencing skills

What We’ll Do For You

Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Costa Coffee, Innocent, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurant.
Global Connections: Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.

Skills

Business Analytics; Analytical Skills; Brand Activations; Communication; Collaboration; Vendor Management

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.

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