Director, Strategic Insight & Analysis

Director, Strategic Insight & Analysis  

Focus, Scope, and Impact 

This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the business landscape to localize the global “Where to play” definitions. The role will leverage data and high-quality insights, anchored in data and facts, to impact business results and growth. The concept of “end-to-end” analysis is critical for success in this role. 

What You’ll Do for Us  

• Connect insights to frame and align on prioritization of key issues and opportunities 

• Connect the different research, data, and insights sources to nurture a compelling business strategy in the region 

• Synthesize data and insights from all Functions and Platform Services to delineate choices that inform Operating Unit strategic priorities 

• Enhance local strategy and contribute to development of global strategy 

• Analyze/Benchmark/rationalize the strategy based on local considerations 

• Support Country Strategy Leads by helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize and enhance the Country plans 

• Build future knowledge capabilities for the operating unit and for the Global Enterprise 

• Interface and provide thought leadership with Platform services, global teams, and functions to secure the right data and new methods for developing knowledge

Work Focus 

• Ability to partner with senior leaders to develop, localize, enhance, and deploy insights that drive strategic decision-making at the Operating Unit level and across functions. 

• Ability to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple sources into specific perspectives. Understands the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business. 

• Ability to not only sufficiently analyze but also to link together the whole – “connect the dots” between multiple sources of data and analyses. 

Communication Focus  

• This role is responsible for communicating internally across different leaders to effectively disseminate the synthesized insights that support decision making. 

• This role will be the key connector of the Strategy Function with Platform services (PS), and therefore, will be responsible for leading conversations between functions and data source integration. 

• This role will also require communication with Bottling Partner leadership as part of building future insight capabilities for the System, such as creating a systemic view of the challenges and opportunities to better align the Company and Bottling Partners. 

Qualifications & Requirements 

10 years of Business and/or functional experience in Research/Strategy/Analytics related areas. Proven leadership trajectory and influencing a senior leadership team 

Broad expertise in: 

• Synthesis and storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories 

• Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct research and analysis requirements; comfort with ambiguity 

• Critical thinking around industry and competitive assessment: business and execution strategy 

• AI/machine learning basics to explore innovation in analytical methodologies   

• Intermediate to advance analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools 

• Understand continuous tracking methodologies, and recurring analysis methodologies 

• Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition, and evaluation) 

• Systemic thinking: integrating different pieces to create a whole picture 

• Facilitation skills and business acumen to drive better conversations into practical applications 

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.