Job Vacancies at Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. At The Coca-Cola Company you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Competitive Intelligence & Macros Director

Job Requisition ID: R-87503
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time
Travel Required: 00% - 25%

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Lead development of finance analysis (value chain analysis, financial modelling, opportunity assessment, return on investment analysis, cash flow analysis and other financial tools) to develop recommendations to business leads and strategy assessments to support decision making. 
• Forecasting and business analytics leadership of volume and revenue forecast while ensuring a high level of forecast accuracy is delivered.   
• Communicate and interpret findings across brand, category and consumer based on financial analysis that provides additional perspectives on implications, risk, opportunity and trends. 
• Build value-based relationships with Brand, Customer, Commercial, RGM, Franchise, Supply Chain, Legal and other key associates. 
• Review, improve, provide input, approve and present completed analyses that requires expert knowledge of financial models and application of strategic and operational measures to assess economic and commercial viability of proposed investments. 
• Analysis of business results and recommending forward actions to close gaps to plan or accelerate the business results. 
• Analysis of business performance for gaps versus plan and lead the development of contingencies/solves for leadership teams. 
• Understand external and competitive category performance to inform decisions. Leadership of financial management with the customer team, which requires strong customer focus and influence. 
• Responsible for leading a team - recruit, develop and sustain a diverse and high-performing team.  Coach, guide, and mentor team in managing and building their quantitative and analytical skills. Establishing key relationships that can be leveraged to strengthen team capabilities and to provide career advancement opportunities in the organization. 

Qualification & Requirements 

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business or a related field, with a Master’s is preferred. 
• 7+ years of global financial management experience with responsibility for operations with people and resources management experience. 
• Experienced in Annual Business Planning and strategic thinking including applying forecasting techniques and skills to develop and evaluate business goals and strategies, analyzing information to derive insights and implications to initiate planning/re-planning, and controlling actual results vs. budget. 
• Strong understanding of customer P&L management (including drivers of volume, revenue, and gross profit), revenue growth management capabilities, forecasting and trade spend effectiveness. 
• Must possess ability to motivate and develop the talent and to collaborate with cross-functional peers to define the business plan/rolling estimate deliverables.  
• Ability to evaluate business planning goals/strategies and analyze financials to derive at insights and initiate gap solving for Customer leadership team. 
• Strong change management capabilities – demonstrates innovation and creativity to create business solutions; ability to influence/gain alignment across divergent perspectives. 

Skills:

• Budgeting
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Forecasting Process
• General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Internal Auditing
• Economics
• Financial Analytics
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Statements
• Microsoft Office
• Problem Solving
• Teamwork
• Value Chain Analysis

What We Can Do For You 

• Agile & Innovative Software Platforms: Each day we are working to improve efficiency and reporting using top tier platforms which include Alteryx, Power BI, & Tableau. 
• Connections: We work cross-functionally across different business groups to make sure that we can put together the clearest numbers & projections for our customers. 
• Diverse Customers: We work with thousands of customers each day which range from international large-retail chains, grocery stores, restaurants, airports, and so many more. 

Application Closing Date: 5th May, 2023.

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2.) Digital Platforms Senior Manager

Job Requisition ID: R-87540
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time
Travel Required: 00% - 25%

Position Overview

• The digital era is defined by changing consumer behaviors driven by tech advances. Consumers enjoy real-time interaction and total connectivity powered by contextual intelligence. This new reality is what pushes the Coca-Cola Company to “shift from TV to digital”, to expand the consumer engagement model beyond the 5 minutes per day they're watching an influencer's video or drinking a beverage. Owned digital experiences and products play a critical role in building 1:1 consumer engagement across the entire consumer journey and life cycle, empowered by rich first party behavioral data.
• The Digital Platforms Senior Manager will shape and execute digital platforms strategy for the Africa operating unit. The role will oversee consumer-facing web properties and digital experience platforms to ensure that platforms are technically sound and continuously improved based on data and audience insights.
• By managing a range of projects, and offering expert consultancy and support, this role will ensure that our digital products and services are delivered with an excellent standard, helping us deliver deliver a first-class experience to our digital audiences; and develop governance to enable the network to keep content and data current and relevant.
• This position reports to the Digital Platforms Director and will work closely with cross functional teams across the organization.

What You will Do For Us  

• Developing and executing Digital Platforms strategy for Africa Operating Unit
• Map and develop relationships with key stakeholders that will maximize TCCC owned platforms to its consumers and shoppers
• Work in partnership with other areas within Intergraded Marketing and Marketing to embed the owned platforms into the brand ecosystems
• Lead inputs into sprint planning and plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product.
• Define product vision, product road-map and growth opportunities.
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Designing strategies and plans for Owned platforms of TCCC brands in order to maximize consumer acquisition, engagement & retention
• Developing plans to localize and implement global owned platforms in the Operating Unit
• Manage those platforms with a continuous learning & iteration mindset
• Work hand in hand with global team to ensure the success of the global brands owned platforms in the Operating Unit
• Providing expert perspective on consumer acquisition and activation (e.g., campaign and promotion aggregator)
• Leverage personal network and knowledge of digital tools to drive competitive experience and product advantage  
• The Owned Consumer Platforms manager plays a key role in disrupt the way we do marketing and educate/spread that throughout the organization. 
• The consumer platforms manager plays the role of SME on all consumer digital platforms and will be responsible for building capability in the OU (internal and partner network)

Education Requirements

• Digital – savvy: 12-15 years of digital platforms experience
• Proven experience managing a website or other technical platform for the purpose of supporting consumer facing digital experiences.
• Proven experience managing a budget of any magnitude related to IT investments, ideally including evaluating technical investments and making vendor/platform selection recommendations, is preferred but not required.
• Experience working in cross-functional and cross-geographical teams is preferred

Skills:

• Customer Journey
• Digital Customer Experience
• Digital Products
• Digital Services
• Digital Technology
• Digital Marketing Campaigns
• Digital Marketing Platforms
• Digital Platforms
• Online Platforms
• Technology Platforms

Application Closing Date: 30th April, 2023.

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