Enterprise Wide Initiatives Senior Manager - Africa at The Coca-Cola Company

This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the OU 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.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities

• Enable and drive strategic, often large-scale enterprise initiatives with multiple stakeholders across cross-functional teams.
• Curate, steward, and enrich the list of Enterprise Wide Initiatives (EWIs) across all the steps from prioritization with the Center/Network of OUs to implementation with OU Functions / Bottlers / other key stakeholders.
• Support cross-functional agile teams to set ambitious and clear objectives, track progress, create alignment, and encourage teams’ engagement around measurable goals.
• Develop, recommend, and lead a consistent and standardized agile operating model across the OU to increase performance and deliver value-driven results.
• Serve as the OU network organization strategic enabler by acting as a culture transformation driver. Implement new ways of working across the system.
• Collaborate with the Global People Function to advance the strategic capability agenda of the OU.

Work Focus

• Management of Enterprise Wide Initiatives, Business Transformation, and OU key strategic initiatives.
• OU ways of working design, implementation, metrics tracking, and continuous optimization.
• Champions the OU-wide strategic capability development agenda.

Communication Focus

• Exceptional problem solving, process mind-set, and analytical skills with great attention to detail.
• Outstanding ability to build and leverage relationships with key business partners, comfortable in working closely with senior leaders.
• Internal and external customer focus with the ability to understand complex challenges & linkages and articulate into plans to drive results.
• Proven ability to coach, influence and facilitate learnings across all levels of an organization.
• Outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal).

Education Requirements

• Bachelors degree

Related Work Experience

• 10+ years of project management experience and global capability development and implementation, with a focus on agile ways of working and proven success record in several businesses, functional areas and geographies.
• Relevant experience in strategy, marketing, business analysis, or general management accountability. Ability to adjust, learn, and connect towards delivery of high-stakes initiatives
• Advantages: Certified Change Management Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, PMP.

Functional Skills

Mastery of –

• Experience managing enterprise-wide scale programs with multiple stakeholders across cross-functional teams and all levels of the organization. Coca-Cola system previous knowledge and experiences required.
• Large-scale coaching experience. Knowledge of agile principles and practices plus the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization. Experience with business agility in non-IT environments.
• Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts and global capabilities implementation. Being comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Consulting and facilitation skills in leading teams in the adoption and improvement of agile methodologies.
• Stakeholder mapping and management.
• Broad expertise in –
• Market and business data analytics understanding.
• Agile Certifications (Scrum Master, Agile Practitioner, Product Owner) or proven equivalent experience.
• Experience with other proven “ways-of-working” TCCC proprietary and none-proprietary. (e.g. Marketing Factory, CIF, Design Thinking, Operating Effectiveness, etc.)

What We Can Do For You

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that will shape our OU’s growth agenda
• Opportunity to work on challenging and diverse projects that will help you push your own boundaries
• Opportunity to work in an inclusive team environment; a “learning organization” as opposed to a “know-it-all organization.”
• Exposure to an expansive breadth and depth of merit-based personal growth opportunities
• Extensive exposure to senior leadership across the Coca-Cola system
• Accelerated learning – given exposure to varied business areas and fast paced problem-solving environment

Together, In Pursuit Of Our Company Vision To Craft LOVED BRANDS, Done SUSTAINABLY, FOR A BETTER SHARED FUTURE, We Will

You will be part of the Africa Strategy team where teams are the new heroes and our leaders that are inclusive orchestrators.

• Build winning CAPABILTIES
• Change the DNA of our organization to becoming ADAPTABLE