South Africa PACS Director at The Coca-Cola Company

KEY WORKING PARAMETERS

• Provides leadership of all public affairs, government relations, strategic communications and sustainability related programs and initiatives within South Africa

• Reports to OU PACS VP, and acts as a first point of contact for other franchise LT members providing advice to identify, assess and manage risks and opportunities that may impact the business performance or Company reputation in the South Africa Franchise.

• Ensures cross-functional and system-wide alignment to optimize the use of resources and maximize the impact of public affairs, government relations, communications and sustainability plans.

• Partners with Marketing to ensure instinctive collaboration, ensuring PACS integration into Brand and Innovation strategy and processes. In addition, this role is the key relationship holder to the Franchise Marketing leader to ensure PACS perspective in relevant execution and activation processes

• Strives to build one PACS system team with a robust and multi-skilled talent pipeline and succession plans. Acts as key interface for planning and coherent activities to the respective bottling partners in the South Africa Franchise

• Through the country/cluster teams:

  • Monitors regional NGO’s, activists, and political developments to identify trends with implications to the business. Engages with and builds coalitions with regional and local government and non-government stakeholders to advocate for or against and advance policies and programming that support our business goals in collaboration with our Public Policy, Sustainability and Strategic Communication teams

  • Identifies and monitors regional and local divergent stakeholders to understand their priorities and develop a strategic plan for engagement. Engages with convergent stakeholders to strengthen our impact and deliver value to the business.

• Accountable for the implementation of Public Affairs, Communications & Sustainability strategies and key priorities across the zones.

• Accountable to co-ordinate a robust planning process in the markets comprising the Franchise and partner with the Planning Director of the OU during our planning process

• Acts as a manager to 2 direct reports in the Franchise

KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS

Experience

At least 15 years of relevant experience, ideally in senior roles with responsibility for public affairs, government relations, communications, stakeholder management and sustainability. Proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams and collaboration with Marketing teams. Experience of working internationally or in multicultural teams is advantageous.

Work Focus

Ability to analyze complex business and regulatory issues, manage divergent stakeholders and bring together multiple concepts across functions to define the long-term public affairs, government relations, communications and sustainability strategy for the business.

Communication Focus

The role leads communication on a regular basis with key internal and/or external parties, and has the responsibility for sharing information, influencing and negotiating with key parties and stakeholders with both shared and opposing interests.

KEY Knowledge REQUIREMENTS

Please populate the below with 5 functional skills required for success in the job

Mastery of (rEQUIRED)

broad expertise in (gOOD TO hAVE)

1. Public policy & government relations

1. Business & financial acumen

2. Stakeholder management

2. Ngo engagement

3. Corporate communications

3. Brand communications

4. Incident mgmt. & crisis resolution

4. Public service

5. Sustainability

5. Media relations

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