Channel and Franchise Insights 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.

The Channel and Franchise Insights team team is responsible of ensuring a holistic, networked and evergreen understanding of the full OU landscape to localize global “Where to play” definition. The goal of the team is to generate actionable insights and identify opportunities at local level by connecting multiple data sources (agency research, industry financial reporting, syndicated data, global best-practices, continuous tracking data and reports, etc.).

**What You’ll Do for Us**:

- Frame key business opportunities based on fact-based and future-driven understanding of channel dynamics to support Commercial and Customer Leadership function to in building bold LRP/ABP plans and Customer RFPs. Shopper Insights in Human Insights function will be a key partner in this objective.
- Be the key partner of Strategy Franchise Integration Teams to ensure visibility and deployment at Zone level of the insights generated across the network (LA OU functions/Global/ Platform Services/Other OUs) and ensuring the granularity and scope to support the localization of strategic projects focused on the acceleration of business and market share performance.
- Co-lead with other function Insights areas (Human Insights, Finance Insights, Digital Insights, Platform Services) and with Strategy Franchise Integration LATAM Insights Roadmap, including the coordination of the ABP insights plan and budget management

As a people leader the role will be also accountable of:

- Ensuring MI&A effectiveness across the organization by bringing clarity on objectives, removing obstacles to drive team performance and engagement.
- Build strong enterprise leadership to unlock the network power by partnering with other Strategy/Insights teams to sharpen MI&A team role and to facilitate cross-functional collaboration.
- Foster a culture of bold and constructive discontent and develop diverse talent to continuously raise the bar.

**Scope**
- Latin America OU (3 Operations, 30+ Countries), System NR: USD 20Bn, KO NR: USD 4.1Bn, KO OI = USD 2.5Bn
- More than 10 bottlers, including 3 of the Top 5 bottlers worldwide
- Goals and/or strategies for the role focus mid-term / long term priorities (2-3 years).

**Qualifications & Requirements**:

- 8+ years of Business and/or functional experience in Strategy/Planning/RGM/Commercial research.
- Previous consultancy experience as a plus
- Proven trajectory as leader of others and collaborating and influencing multifunctional peers (Commercial/Marketing/Franchise/Finance).

Required mastery of:

- Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct research and analysis requirement.
- Strategic thinking around industry and competitive assessment.
- Understanding of the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business. Intermediate to advance analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools
- Ability to integrating different pieces to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment.
- Ability to converge contextual data from multiple countries into an OU-specific perspective without losing the power of local insights.
- Synthesis and storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories
- Comfort with ambiguity

Desirable Skills
- Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition and evaluation)
- Bottling partners key data sources and recurring analysis methodologies

**What We Can Do For You**
- ** 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
- ** Purpose Driven**: Purpose driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products.
- ** Global Connections**: Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
- ** 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**

Strategic Thinking; Relationship Building; Strategic Planning; Tactical Planning; Financial Analytics; Financial Modeling; Presentations; Competitive Analysis; Project Management; Storytelling; Consumer Insights; Microsoft Office; Communication; Stakeholder Management; Risk Mitigation Strategies; Analytics Software; Influencing; Syndicated Research; Data Mining; Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
**Our Purpose and Growth Culture**: