Director, Commercial Strategy & Operations - Still Portfolio (12 month contract)

The Coca-Cola Company•Canada - ON - Ontario, ON

2d•CA$150,000 - CA$178,000•Remote

About The Position

This 12-month contract role serves as the lead between category/brand teams and commercial operating teams to communicate initiatives to bottlers and customer teams. The successful candidate will demonstrate relationship building and leadership capabilities while working across multiple channels. The company's vision is to have loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future, striving for cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or another related field.
5-7 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry.
Leadership and experience working across multiple channels – e.g., large store, small store, and Foodservice/On Premise channels.
Experience in brand and category management, coordinating pricing and promotions, and customer and sales.
Demonstrates strong business acumen through the ability to create a 1-3-year business plan for brand/category and a path to achieve that vision, anticipating future trends and needs in the marketplace and business; demonstrates innovation/creativity.
Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and build relationships at all organizational levels; communicates long-term vision and shorter-term opportunities through clear & simple messages.
People leadership/management – specifically, managing virtual teams and influencing multiple stakeholders with different priorities.
Strong track record of leadership across cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Still Portfolio

Responsibilities

Represents the total Trademark commercial perspective in all discussions/decisions across the bottler network and communicates initiatives to bottlers and customer teams.
Ensures representation of channel needs and proper translation of brand strategies across retail & foodservice channels.
Partners with the brand team to ensure the commercial leadership organization serves as a single source of direction, delivering and transforming brand strategies into actionable plans.
Responsible for the development, implementation, and achievement of the annual commercial business plan.
Aligns channel input on price/pack architecture and ensures channel coherency.
Directs and stewards the commercial development of all new item introductions.
Leads collaboration with Revenue Growth Management functions to develop tools and tracking for sales teams to ensure maximization of revenue and gross profit.
Supports category/brand teams in determining program budget, manages program allocations across channels/customers, and re-allocates funding based on performance.
Supports Commercial Leadership category strategic planning and performance management.
Leads development of tools and tracking to ensure profitable growth across the portfolio.
Partners with product/package leads in the creation of brand/package launch decks/PAGS for delivery to channel planning and sales teams for use in the market.