Director, Performance Planning, Franchise Mainland China

Focus, Scope, and Impact

We are seeking an experienced, high-impact Director, Performance Planning, Franchise Mainland China to lead and elevate business planning, performance analysis, and financial forecasting efforts for Mainland China. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a strong analytical foundation, exceptional communication skills, and a proven capability to align cross-functional teams to drive actionable outcomes. This role demands someone who is ambitious, highly capable, and eager to leverage data, insights, and digital innovation to deliver operational and strategic excellence.

What You’ll Do for Us

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Oversee the monthly LE process to ensure accuracy, accountability, and alignment with business objectives.
• Conduct rigorous reviews to identify variances, determine root causes, and implement corrective actions to achieve targets.
• Lead comprehensive topline performance analyses to uncover actionable insights and opportunities for growth.

Operational Excellence and Performance Tracking

• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting systems to monitor business performance, ensuring KPIs and other critical metrics are tracked effectively.
• Prepare and lead Monthly Business Review sessions with Operations and OU (Operating Unit) Senior Management to discuss and analyze performance, enabling tactical decisions to meet annual Business Plan (BP) targets.

• Evaluate existing processes to recommend and implement improvements, ensuring operational efficiency, scalability, and alignment with future business needs.

Data Analytics and Digital Transformation

• Leverage advanced analytics and digital tools to drive finance digitalization and automation efforts in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Champion the organization’s data analytics journey—transforming complex data into sharp, actionable insights through advanced data storytelling.  

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Leadership

• Act as a key partner to Franchise GMs and multi-functional teams to drive financial outcomes and strategic alignment.
• Lead business planning efforts and align strategic priorities with long- and short-term organizational goals.
• Collaborate across Franchise teams, Bottlers, OU Finance and Marketing teams, and Platform Services to ensure clarity, alignment, and accountability in decision-making.

Communication Focus

• This role is responsible for partnering internally as well as externally to effectively drive financial outcomes, as well as to build alignment on key initiatives and metrics, with a focus on communication to:
• Franchise GMs, Operation Directors and Operation Managers
• Bottlers local management leadership (finance, commercial etc.)
• OU finance leadership and teams
• Other teams under network organization (OU Customer and Commercial Leadership, Strategy, Marketing teams and Platform Service teams)

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in business planning or data analytic roles
• Strong communication skills with an emphasis on storytelling using data—ability to synthesize and present dense information in a clear, actionable way tailored to diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills; ability to evaluate alternatives and recommend fact-based, win-win solutions.
• Agile way of learning and working with strong curiosity to business. Keep a proactive approach in addressing business challenges.
• Experience driving digital transformation or advanced finance automation initiatives is a key advantage.

What We Can Do for You

• Provide a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that is squarely focused on capturing data-driven growth opportunities.
• Opportunities for your work to directly impact on-the-ground business operations via the networked organization. Opportunity to influence and shape the overall strategy of the global enterprise.
• Offer “Freedom within a Framework” and a general preference for the “next” vs. traditional. Permission to push the organization in exploring a wide-range of new insights-generating methodologies. Ample room for whitespace thinking.
• An inclusive team environment; a “learning organization” as opposed to a “know-it-all organization.”
• Provide an expansive breadth and depth of merit-based personal growth opportunities.