CCAR Franchise Strategy Director

About the role

This leadership role is responsible for supporting and challenging the Franchise Units in implementing the System's growth strategy and developing actionable insights at market level.

What You'll Do for Us

• Collaborate with Franchise Unit and Commercial & Customer Leadership to adjust execution strategy in the Franchise territory and at the market level.
• Partner with Franchise Unit to lead system end-to-end alignment process with Bottlers at local level.
• Identify granular opportunities and create actionable initiatives at local level, bringing together relevant data and insights from the Insights & Analysis vertical, OU Strategy support, and EWI collaboration
• Design and lead internal and bottling partner facing Franchise routines, coordinating necessary preparations to enable business decisions.

Work Focus

• Develop actionable and compelling 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.
• Lead Franchise management routines internally and with the System, working closely with Franchise GMs
• Co-lead end-to-end alignment process with Bottlers around overall strategy and business planning (in coordination with Finance).
• Capture and network best practices, import and export good ideas both locally in the OU and globally.
• Role model the "Leadership in the Network" definition.
• Manage uncertainty and multiple stakeholders.

Communication Focus

• Multiple top-level interactions and negotiations with senior management team members of the System (Executive Director's Office and General Managers).
• Strong negotiation, influence, and communication skills to align strategies as well as build value-based relationships through numerous sensitive situations (often directly with Bottlers).
• 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.

Experience

• +10 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy/Marketing/Business Development / Consultancy related areas
• Proven leadership trajectory and influencing a senior leadership team

What We Can Do for You

• Provide a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that will shape the future our System's growth agenda in the selected Franchise territory.
• 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 System in exploring a wide-range of new strategic growth opportunities.
• An opportunity to have a rich holistic business overview and exposure that comes with bridging strategy creation and franchise execution
• 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.

Skills

Influencing; Relationship Building; Strategic Thinking; Tactical Planning; Financial Modeling; Competitor Analysis; Project Management; Large Group Presentations; Customer Insights; Storytelling; Microsoft Office; Communication; Stakeholder Management; Risk Mitigation Strategies; Long Term Planning; Analytics Software; Data Mining; Financial Analysis