Manager, Franchise Strategy Integration

At the Coca-Cola Company, we work collaboratively to find new and innovative ways to strategically move the business forward by leading, developing and executing strategy in partnership with our customer and bottler relationships.

In this position, you will be responsible for helping the sustainable growth within Brazil while collaborating with South Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia & Paraguay) in implementing the Strategy and developing actionable commercial insights at market level.

**What You’ll Do for Us**
- Be the Strategy partner to the Stills Beverages Operations (Juices, Water, Teas, Isotonic and Soy categories) to enable sustainable growth, connecting the global strategy for these categories while balancing local Brazil specificities. You will partner directly with the Brazil Stills Operations Senior Director and be responsible to find opportunities or course correction of ‘where to play’ and ‘how to win’.
- Identify regional opportunities for the Non-Alcoholic Ready to Drink categories (Stills and Sparkling Soft Drinks/Sodas) for the Long-Range Planning and Business Plan, defining regional priorities over Brazil states and creating the addressable ambition to the opportunity.
- Lead the market share agenda in Brazil, by (i) creating monthly narratives on results, (ii) with global reporting team for improvements and (iii) developing analysis and updating some reports. You will also be the main point of contact with Nielsen in Brazil.
- Leverage different sources of data to develop actionable and compelling insights, strategies, and initiatives. Examples of data: sell-in information, market share, price competitiveness, outlet coverage, brand equity KPIs and etc.
- Manage uncertainty and multiple stakeholders.

**Related Work Experience**:

- 3+ years of Business and/or functional experience in Strategy, Business Intelligence, Planning, Operations, Marketing or other related areas.
- Proven trajectory of collaborating and influencing multifunctional peers.
- Experience working with external providers, such as Nielsen, Scanntech, Kantar Worldpanel and/or Euromonitor will be a plus.
- Fluent/Advanced English or Spanish.
- Tools: Advanced Excel and PowerPoint are must haves. PowerBI and other Data Analytics tools will be a plus.

**Functional Skills**:

- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills to set the agenda
- Business acumen skills: fact-based ability to translate data and insights to contribute to key business decisions making.
- Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connecting the dots to develop a holistic approach in creating strategy.
- Storytelling and synthesis.
- Problem framing and problem-solving.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to challenge the status quo.

**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, 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**

Business Insights; Data Oriented; Influencing; Business Intelligence (BI); Data Analytics; Influencing Others (Inactive); Stakeholder Management; Long Term Planning; Accountability; Strategy Plan; Storytelling

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15
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