Portfolio and Resource Allocation Senior Manager

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. As a Portfolio and Resource allocation Senior Manager, you will lead the OU Portfolio and Resource Allocation Strategy development at local level, partnering with the Marketing, Finance and Frontline teams, prioritizing initiatives and allocating resources towards the growth opportunities.
This is a people manager regional role for Latin America with a total team of 3 associates & indirect influences around 300 leaders across different functions in the OU (including Marketing, Franchise, Commercial, Finance, Technical, among others).
**What You’ll Do for Us**
- Take the Global resource allocation strategy forward, getting more granular at OU functional level and Franchise Units levels (actionable combos).
- Generate local learnings to drive and feed Global resource allocation practice evergreen process.
- Partner with Marketing leads on prioritizing the different combos and developing the Portfolio Strategy
- Partner with Marketing Network Capabilities to ensure that Portfolio Strategy is reflected into prioritization of E2E plans
- Partner with Franchise Strategy Integration to ground Portfolio and Resource Allocation Strategy and transform insights into action
- Partner with Strategy Orchestration and Strategy Insights & Analysis to ensure smooth connection of Portfolio Strategy & Resource Allocation discipline with LRP and ABP deliverables
- Favor an effective governance for resource allocation/priorities pivoting during the year (shifts, new initiatives, etc.) ensuring coherence/link with strategic definitions while tracking compliance / identify learnings
- Foster dialogue among category teams to support management of overall category portfolio.
**Qualification & Requirements**
- +10 years of experience in Business Development roles, such as Strategy, Planning, Insights, Consulting, PMO, among others.
- Proven trajectory as leader of others and/or cross functional teams’ coordination and alignment, and influencing peers and senior management roles.
- Ability to integrate and prioritize (portfolio brands, initiatives, workstreams) and allocate resources (DME, FTEs, etc.) through a fact based and holistic approach, handling trade-offs, balancing immediate and long-term priorities, partnering, aligning and engaging key stakeholder.
**Mastery Of (required)**:
- Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connecting the dots to develop holistic approach
- Prioritization: prioritize through a pragmatic fact-based approach, handling trade-offs, balancing immediate and long-term priorities
- Problem framing and solving: ability to structure and coordinate / lead cross functional complex analysis, initiatives, or efforts
- Stakeholder management: identify, influence, align and engage key stakeholders
- Project management skills or experience, including comfort with ambiguity
**Broad Expertise In (Good To Have)**:
- Synthesis and storytelling: Communicate, influence and convince stakeholders through a structured, fact base and action oriented storytelling
- Broader system knowledge either in another function or deep experience with multifunctional projects impacting a larger system
- Industry and competitive assessment: business and execution strategy
Strategic consulting experience and or experience with agile ways of working
**What We Can Do For You**
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Iconic & Innovative Brands**: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Powerade, Fuzetea and more
- Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, and restaurants
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Purpose Driven**: Purpose driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products**.**:
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Global Connections**:Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
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Community of Belonging**:We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.
**Skills**
Agile Methodologies; Consulting; Strategic Planning; Strategy Facilitation; Strategy Development; Business Planning; Leadership; Communication**
Our Purpose and Growth Culture**:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve.

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