Fresh Opportunities at The Coca-Cola Company

Position Overview:

Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. This role serves as the lead in the organization between the category/brand teams and commercial operating teams to communicate initiatives to bottlers and customer teams. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate, relationship building and leadership capabilities while working across multiple channels.

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Lead, design and implement integrated short and mid-term strategies for Ecommerce Customers/ Food aggregators in the OU (Operating Unite) to accelerate customer-back, consumer-centric programing and thus accelerate incidence-, NSR (National Retail Sales) – and Margin growth with these Customers by bringing in the “voice of the customer” into our TCCC (The Coca Cola Company) program design early and thus maximize relevance and execution at the point of purchase.

• Key Objective is to accelerate our TCCS basket- and purchase incidence weekly+ and Gen Z recruitment with customers in these channels and accelerate sustainable topline NSR – and Margin growth; via enhancing our end-to-end experience on these platforms.
• Key Deliverables are Customer-relevant occasion and portfolio development end to end plans, defining shopper relevant category bundles and mechanics, an impactful calendar of activation that ties in with our customers’ activation cycles, briefing marketing accordingly for communications requirements and in outlet experiential requirements, as well as aligning execution requirements with country operations and bottler(s).  
• Connecting dots of Commercial plans in an integrated way into the channel strategy
• Partner with OU Channel Commercial leads on the Category Extended teams to lead and align – occasion-centric plans – on key categories & activation to deploy with digital customers/ platforms / food aggregators and enable integrated through the line approaches while including experiential marketing 
• Incorporate precision retailing into our communication strategy and execution in customers where this data allows, in partnership with offline channel leads and Commercial Execution Excellence in the franchise units.
• Ownership of channel and customer metrics and analyses as well as agreement compliance, channel coherency and advanced analytic based approaches for leading edge category planning and customer negotiation  
• Pan-Africa JBP (Joint business plan) lead (where prioritized) and collaborate.

Qualifications & Requirements: 

• Leadership experience in customer, commercial, operational marketing (5+years).    
• Strong planning and collaboration skills  
• Ability to think from planning to execution and solid system commercial and brand management .
• The roles require strong leadership and accountability to influence our cross-functional system teams towards consumer- AND customer-relevant plans that drive revenue and profit growth with a sustainable long-term competitive advantage.
• Ability to connect the dots across enterprise priorities and drive execution through the franchise teams. 
• Strategic ability incorporating relevant data insights and analytics.
• Strong collaboration with key stakeholders across the business to integrate strategy and plans and execute with excellence. 
• Customer and ecommerce experience and Strong accountability

Skills:

• Leadership; Strategic; Category Management; Sales Analysis; Leading by Influence; Marketing; Channels Strategy; Joint Business Planning; Communication; Digital Marketing Campaigns; Systems Thinking; Strategic Selling; Teamwork; Negotiation; E-Commerce

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Position Overview:

Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. This role serves as the lead in the organization between the category/brand teams and commercial operating teams to communicate initiatives to bottlers and customer teams. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate, relationship building and leadership capabilities while working across multiple channels.

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Represents the total Trademark commercial perspective in all discussions/decisions across bottler network and communicates initiatives to bottlers and customer teams.
• Ensure representation of channel needs and proper translation of brand strategies across retail & foodservice channels.
• Partners with brand team to ensure commercial leadership organization serves as a single source of direction delivering and transformation brand strategies into actionable plans.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, and achievement of annual commercial business plan.
• Align channel input on price/pack architecture and ensure channel coherency and directs and steward’s commercial development of all new item introductions
• Lead collaboration with Revenue Growth Management functions to develop tools and tracking for sales teams to ensure maximization of revenue and gross profit.
• Support category/brand teams in determining program budget, manages the program allocations across channels/customers and re-allocates funding based on performance.
• Supports Commercial Leadership category strategic planning and performance management.
• Lead development of tools and tracking to ensure profitable growth across the portfolio.
• Partners with product/package leads in creation of brand/ package launch decks/PAGS for delivery to channel planning and sales teams for use in the market

Qualifications & Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or another related field.
• 5-7 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry
• Leadership and experience working across multiple channels – e.g., large store, small store, and Foodservice/On Premise channels.
• Experience in brand and category management, coordinating pricing and promotions, and customer and sales.
• Demonstrates strong business acumen through the ability to create a 1-3-year business plan for brand/category and a path to achieve that vision, anticipating future trends and needs in the marketplace and business; demonstrates innovation/creativity.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and build relationships at all organizational levels; communicates long-term vision and shorter-term opportunities through clear & simple messages.
• People leadership/management – specifically, managing virtual teams and influencing multiple stakeholders with different priorities.
• Strong track record of leadership across cross-functional teams

Skills:

• Influencing; Communication; Strategy Development; Systems Thinking; Marketing Activation; Influence; Marketing Execution; Teamwork; Engaging Leadership; Marketing Strategies; Channels Strategy; Project Management

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What You will Do: 

• Leads the development, creation and implementation of project-based communications ensuring plans are fully synchronized with our Africa Operating Unit strategies and Global narrative. 
• Develops and initiates strategies and content to drive measurable value for the business through internal employee engagement. 
• Coordinates with global communications teams, bottling partners and other functions to ensure consistency of plans and messaging. 
• Executes strategy for employee communications and channels for the Africa Operating Unit  

Role Requirement

Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Marketing, or related field.
• 8+ years of previous working experience in internal and leadership communications for large global company.
• Experience in managing all aspects of internal communications for the organization.
• Experience in developing the content for and producing written and visual communications for internal audiences.
• Experience in change management and process improvement strategy and planning involving general business processes, corporate/market initiatives, mergers & acquisitions and/or organization structures.
• Experience in developing a program and strategy to communicate to all employees the organization's policies and programs.
• Experience in developing communication channels to ensure all employees are well informed.
• Amazing influencing and negotiation skills

Work Focus 

• Lead an integrated approach to the development and implementation of employee communications’ plans that advance awareness of the company’s business strategy and impact.  

Communication Focus  

• The position involves influencing and negotiating with others.  
• The role often includes working with stakeholders both internal and external who have differing or opposing interests. 
• The position requires a balance of strategy and execution.   

What We Can Do For You:

• Community Involvement: The Coca-Cola Company encourages employees to get involved in their communities and offers programs and opportunities to volunteer and make a positive impact.
• Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation. 
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global leaders that will expand your network

Skills:

• Influencing