Senior Manager, Performance & Insights Manager at The Coca-Cola Company

Role Overview

A successful Performance Insights Manager is one who can efficiently manage & analyze performance insights to facilitate the right decision-making process and performance management for his/her franchise. He / She will play a key role to facilitate communication between the franchise & Africa Operating unit under the area of Financial & Strategic Planning on daily basis.

What You will Do for Us

Partner with senior leaders, franchise & Africa Operating unit teams to support the Business Plan, Long Range Plans and Business Performance at the Franchise level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:

• Coordinate with Financial Planning team to prepare & provide local business plan insights & assumptions on volume growth.
• Provide valuable insights of business trends.
• Localize business plan volume targets and strategy as extension of global.
• Analyze execution of strategy monthly and communicate insights.
• Business Performance analysis, narrative, and presentations to support local and global performance management routines.
• Develop & discuss insights with stakeholders & plan takeaways.
• Meet with stakeholders to discuss business performance and implications, capture takeaways.

Delivery of volume, transactions, revenue and execution performance stewardship tools and reports to provide insights to Franchise performance. Accountable for creation of dashboards, reports and tools that provide a clear view of performance vs. goals, the identification of gaps and opportunities.

• Use a fact-based, analytic, strategic approach to assist in creation of business plan, collaborating across Africa Operating unit and receiving approval from Group/Center.
• Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the Africa Operating unit, including defining Africa Operating unit volume budget targets, operational metrics, and requirements by region/brand/channel, etc.
• Creating stakeholder value through provision of easy-to-use effective tools. Through a high degree of technical aptitude with our tools/systems, a robust knowledge and curiosity about our business & its drivers and in collaboration with end users, develop tools that enable action to be taken to improve business performance.
• Partnership for insights: Collaborate with other performance team members in the Franchises, within Finance and at key Bottlers to support and conduct analysis, build capability, gain clearer understanding of performance, track course correction actions and planning assumptions.
• Role model the “Leadership in the Network” definition
• Supports broader Finance organization in insights generation, storytelling and impactful presentations.
• Support the development of the Africa Operating unit performance team's capabilities by proactively learning new skills and technologies and embracing experimentation to learn how we best incorporate these into our routines.

Role Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree majoring in one of the following Statistics, Finance, Economics, Engineering or another analytical discipline. MBA preferred.
• 8 years of experience in financial/strategic planning area.
• Experience in a strategy consulting environment is a plus given the skills required.
• Strong technical & analytical skills – advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint, background in data modeling/data analytics and/or data mining.
• Ability to extract insightful “so what’s” from the analysis, ability to perform analysis at high speed.
• Experience of sales, financial & execution data – both internal and syndicated – and the creation of dashboards and scorecards to visual the data.
• Very strong communication skills (solid understanding of top-down story lining, ability to create powerful slides that adhere to our best practice template, ability to generate slides at very high speed, solid verbal presentation skills)
• Solid problem-solving skills.
• Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative.
• Project management skills
• Other: Experience analyzing industry trends/competition, developing forecasts, developing powerful presentations, developing business strategies/plans etc…

Skills:

• Leadership; Agile Methodology; Communication; Business Analytics; Strategy Development; Forecasting; Valuation Modeling; Problem Solving; Project Management; System Economics; Data Modeling; Financial Forecasting