Executive Assistant Strategy and Performance at The Coca-Cola Company

Job Description    
The purpose of this role is to support the Strategy and Performance Director to drive foresight, scan the external environment for megatrends and distil into themes to help CCBSA identify and quantify emerging risk and opportunities. The role will partner with Analytics & Insights teams across CCBSA to prioritise growth vectors and propose initiatives to future proof the business, and input into stretch targets and long-term ambitions to win in the market.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Strategy Formulation

• Analyse and synthesize external data on geo-political and socio-economic development trends across CCBSA to develop hypotheses regarding the opportunity across our markets against each existing or potential category
• Assess current strategy to determine its effectiveness relative to the fast changing environment in South Africa
• Create and evaluate strategic options in order to accelerate business growth and productivity improvements
• Determine financial attractiveness of new growth areas by utilizing value chain and P&L analyses in order to prioritize allocation of resources to these opportunities
• Develop multi-year business scenarios to establish a planning foundation to assist senior-level management in quantifying the financial impact of business decisions
• Recommend and approve business strategy changes to key decision-makers to ensure business meets its desired objectives, aligned to the Strategy and Performance Director’s mandate.
• Identify key business opportunities within CCBSA, articulate the business case and develop relevant solutions to solve complex problems across the organisation
• Build value based and strategic “win-win” relationships with key stakeholders at all levels Understand business environments and trends
• Lead research and develop insights, both quantitative and qualitative
• Evaluate and define competitive landscape for new and existing competitors
• Support the compilation of insights in charts / reports / presentations and other outputs to communicate findings to key stakeholders
• Lead workshops to address immediate challenges and opportunities (e.g. competitor assessments)
• Ensure SA system alignment in exploring and exploiting growth opportunities in new market segments. Business Performance and Planning Management Process
• Support the development of long-range business targets for CCBSA that are comprehensive, realistic and aligned with broader business plans
• Participate in operating meetings to gain an understanding of the operating environment and business needs
• Work in collaboration with business functions on stretch targets to deliver the optimal productivity levels.
• Consult with and influence senior management at various levels in and across a wide variety of functions. Specifically leading business planning process and strategy development, macro level situation and environmental assessment, developing new market and consumer frame-works, suggesting business change and challenge status quo thinking.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with internal senior management stakeholders in order to influence business decision-making
• Support the development of business cases in order to secure resource commitments (e.g., budget, personnel and business systems) from Senior Management that will enable execution of initiatives Design strategic interventions and define associated projects to deliver against objectives
• Steward the interest of CCBSA by ensuring that projects/programs are economically profitable, strategically sound, administratively feasible and legally correct
• Drive key strategic initiatives focused on delivering winning metrics (volume, share, profit, quality, etc.)
• Drive thought leadership on strategic initiatives: Problem identification, work stream structuring, analysis, syndication and solution framing and identification

Skills, Experience & Education    

• Minimum requirement for a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing or industrial Engineering. MBA or relevant post graduate studies are preferred.
• Experience 5-10 years’ relevant experience in: Management consulting experience – corporate and top-rated management consulting firms
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills; and must have an entrepreneurial mindset / creative/ innovative and a self-starter.
• Business planning at executive level
• Business strategy and analysis
• Conceptual ideation and implementation
• Project management, preferably acquired in rapidly moving and diverse projects with multiple interdependencies
• Working in an environment with a high degree of ambiguity and competing priorities
• Leading strategic projects.

Closing Date: 17th, June 2022