Director, OBPPC Sparkling

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Yes

Job Posting End Date:

June 11, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Role: Director, OBPPC Sparkling (R-123525)

Primary Job Location: (USA) Candidates must be currently located in or willing to relocate to the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Travel: This role requires up to 10% travel, with an expectation to be in the office 3 days a week.
Education: A Bachelor’s degree is required; an MBA or other Advanced Degree is a plus.

This role provides thought leadership and analytical support to the Category teams and broader North America Operating Unit (NAOU) to shape the direction our system takes in the marketplace for the Occasion, Brand, Package, Price, and Channel (OBPPC) & Retail Strategy.

This role is also responsible for working with the Marketing, Commercial & National Retail Sales (NRS), and Bottler teams to ensure that we meet consumer occasion needs in states to optimize category revenue, profitability, and growth. This requires a holistic business understanding, analytical mindset, cross-functional leadership, and strong influencing skills. 

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Support the development of an OBPPC vision and growth strategy for a specific category across multiple brands, while partnering with other categories to ensure total portfolio coherence. 

• Expected to develop OBPPC strategy across all channels to ensure that all consumer occasion needs are met with the right margin optimization strategy. 

• Category OBPPC strategy work will include a 3-year OBPPC strategy, opportunity identification, occasions-channels-packages, new package launches, and pricing strategy across core brands and innovation. 

• Will be expected to develop the mid to long-term category retail price strategy for a specific category across all channels and partner with the RGM execution teams to ensure that all strategies are implemented within the guardrails by the customers & bottlers. 

• Provides insights and analysis required to ensure a clear view of opportunities and risks vs. the plan. 

• Ensures seamless coordination across functions to ensure new launches & pilots roll out of new packages with the right strategy. 

• Will partner with cross-functional colleagues to develop acceleration initiatives to capture additional growth as needed. 

• Work with the respective RGM, commercial, and brand teams to translate. 

• Category Plan into actionable annual business plans for bottler plans 

• Lead the strategy development and quantification for Sources of Growth (SOG) to be incorporated into the annual business planning process.

​What You'll Need

KEY SKILLS / CAPABILITIES  

• Strategic thinking: must be able to solve problems and turn insights into strategy and action plans. 

• Strong partnership and collaboration: must be able to work across functions and the System. 

• Solid presentation, influencing, and storytelling skills: presents ideas and drives initiatives with clear and concise reason and action plan. 

• Capability building: we develop and build RGM talent within the RGM team and across the organization to bring in future talent. 

KEY KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE  

• Analytics & Financials: ability to draw insights and actions from data. 

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