Coca-Cola Vacancies 2021 | Coca-Cola jobs in Johannesburg

Strategic Insights & Analysis Senior Manager

• @@Candidates should Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description

Position Overview: 

This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the OU landscape to localize the global “Where to play” definitions. The role will leverage data and high-quality insights, anchored in data and facts, to impact business results and growth. The concept of “end-to-end” analysis is critical for success in this role.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities: 

• Work with a Cloud of agile team of Strategy Managers and Specialists to land a high-level strategy to executable bundles
• Enhance local strategy and contribute to development of global strategy
• Analyze/Benchmark/rationalize the strategy based on local considerations
• Connect insights to support the OU Strategy Leads in framing and aligning on prioritization of key issues and opportunities
• Connect the different research, data, and insights sources to nurture a compelling business strategy in the region
• Synthesize data and insights from all Functions and Platform Services (PS) to delineate choices that inform OU strategic priorities
• Support Franchise Strategy Leads by helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize and enhance the Franchise Strategy
• Communicate and deliver executable bundles that further the Franchise Strategy
• Build future knowledge capabilities for the OU and for the Global Enterprise
• Interface and provide thought leadership with PS, Center, and OU Functions to secure the right data and new methods for developing knowledge

Work Focus

•    Ability to partner with senior leaders to develop, localize, enhance, and deploy insights that drive strategic decision-making at the OU level and across functions.
•    Ability to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple sources into specific perspectives. Understands the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business.
•    Ability to not only sufficiently analyze but also to link together the whole – “connect the dots” between multiple sources of data and analyses.
Communication Focus
•    This role is responsible for communicating internally across the different OU leaders to effectively disseminate the synthesized insights that support decision making.
•    This role will be the key connector of the Strategy Function with PS, and therefore, will be responsible for leading OU – PS conversations and data source integration.
•    This role will also require communication with Bottler leadership as part of building future insight capabilities for the System, such as creating a systemic view of the challenges and opportunities to better align the Company and Bottling Partners.

Qualifications and Experience

Education Requirements:
•    Bachelors degree

Related Work Experience:

•    +10 years of Business and/or functional experience in Research/Strategy/Analytics related areas
•     Proven leadership trajectory and influencing a senior leadership team

Functional Skills: 

Mastery of –
•    Synthesis and storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories
•    Intermediate to advance analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools
•    Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct research and analysis requirements; comfort with ambiguity
•    Critical thinking around industry and competitive assessment: business and execution strategy
•    Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition, and evaluation)
•    Systemic thinking: integrating different pieces to create a whole picture
•    Facilitation skills and business acumen to drive better conversations into practical applications

Broad expertise in – 

• AI/machine learning basics to explore innovation in analytical methodologies
• Understand continuous tracking methodologies to connect properly with Platform Services
• Bottling partners key data sources and recurring analysis methodologies
• What We Can Do for You:
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that will shape our OU’s growth agenda
• Opportunity to work on challenging and diverse projects that will help you push your own boundaries
• Opportunity to work in an inclusive team environment; a “learning organization” as opposed to a “know-it-all organization.”
• Exposure to an expansive breadth and depth of merit-based personal growth opportunities
• Extensive exposure to senior leadership across the Coca-Cola system
• Accelerated learning – given exposure to varied business areas and fast paced problem-solving environment