Director, Corporate Strategy

Job Description Summary:

The Director, Corporate Strategy supports key priorities of the enterprise strategy agenda including topics related to strategy development, cross-functional enterprise initiatives and enterprise critical routines.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Partner and collaborate inside the department with various Sr. leaders, including the Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Vice President, Enterprise Wide Initiatives & Strategic Transformation, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and Vice President, Enterprise Learning, as well as outside the department with Functions/OUs/Platform Services based on the priorities of the enterprise and the department.

• For priorities identified, be a critical project team member to deliver expectations. Drive own work-stream effectively with limited guidance, demonstrating initiative and the ability to be self-driven; proactively raise issues and challenges that occur along the way.

• Conduct analysis to provide initial recommendations for workstream that solve specific issues identified and that are sufficiently pragmatic.

• More broadly, demonstrate increasing understanding of the priorities of the function and take the initiative to surface opportunities to achieve them.

• Drive relevant analysis and insights (be able to offer initial implications of analysis), both individually and with the help of PS/OUs/Functions to support rotating priorities and share results in a digestible manner to Operating Committee.

• For specific workstreams, lead a network of peers and/or consultants to drive towards end-products and clear deliverables.

Scope:  Global

Qualifications & Experience

• 7-9 years of business experience, with experience in strategy, finance, or other generalist fields

• Graduate Degree in business, strategy or a related field

• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels, depending on priorities of the Strategy department, exemplifying network ways of working

• Ability to partner with leaders of the Corporate Strategy team as well as the network of OUs/Functions/Platform Services.

• Strong problem solving - ability to be hypothesis-driven, drive from analysis to insights and implications, be comfortable taking in data and input from a variety of different sources, and to be structured and logical in thinking

• Strong team player willing to help others out in team during projects

• Analytical with attention to detail but at the same time able to be 80:20, prioritize appropriately and to be comfortable with a certain amount of ambiguity

• Ability to rotate across priorities and multi-task, leverage relationships with key business partners, comfortable in working closely with OUs/Functions/Platform Services, with stakeholder management capabilities

• Outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal) - ability to synthesize, some ability to pull disparate analyses together into a single narrative; some ability to develop visually compelling charts and create portions of crisply written white papers that focus on key messages.

• Proficiency in both Microsoft Excel (for analysis) and PowerPoint (for visual communication)

Key Knowledge Required:

• Critical Thinking

• Data Analysis & Insights

• Process Management & Improvement

• Business Acumen

• Networking & Influencing

• Collaboration

Broad Expertise in:

• Technology

• Agile ways of working

• Comfort with ambiguity

• Storytelling

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Analytics Software, Communication, Competitor Analysis, Customer Insights, Data Mining, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Influencing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Long Term Planning, Microsoft Office, Professional Presentation, Relationship Building, Risk Mitigation Strategies, Stakeholder Management, Storytelling, Strategic Thinking, Syndicated Research, Tactical Planning, Waterfall Model

Pay Range:

United States of America: 164,000 USD - 193,000 USD