Director, Corporate Strategy

Coca-Cola • Atlanta, GA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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. This role involves partnering and collaborating with various senior leaders within and outside the department to drive enterprise priorities. The Director will be a critical project team member, driving their own work-stream effectively with limited guidance, demonstrating initiative and a self-driven approach. They will conduct analysis to provide recommendations for workstreams, proactively identify and raise issues, and demonstrate an understanding of the function's priorities to surface opportunities. The role requires driving relevant analysis and insights to support rotating priorities and sharing results with the Operating Committee. For specific workstreams, the Director will lead a network of peers and/or consultants to achieve end-products and clear deliverables. The scope of this role is global.

Requirements

• 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
• Ability to partner with leaders of the Corporate Strategy team as well as the network of OUs/Functions/Platform Services
• Strong problem-solving skills: 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 the 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
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in strategy, finance, or other generalist fields

Responsibilities

• Support key priorities of the enterprise strategy agenda, including strategy development, cross-functional enterprise initiatives, and enterprise critical routines.
• Partner and collaborate with various senior leaders within the department (e.g., SVP and Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, VP Enterprise Wide Initiatives & Strategic Transformation, VP Strategic Initiatives, VP Enterprise Learning) and outside the department with Functions/OUs/Platform Services based on enterprise and department priorities.
• Act as a critical project team member to deliver expectations for identified priorities.
• Drive own work-stream effectively with limited guidance, demonstrating initiative and a self-driven approach.
• Proactively raise issues and challenges that occur.
• Conduct analysis to provide initial recommendations for workstreams that solve specific issues and are pragmatic.
• Demonstrate increasing understanding of the function's priorities and take initiative to surface opportunities to achieve them.
• Drive relevant analysis and insights (offering initial implications) individually and with the help of PS/OUs/Functions to support rotating priorities.
• Share results in a digestible manner to the Operating Committee.
• Lead a network of peers and/or consultants for specific workstreams to drive towards end-products and clear deliverables.

Benefits

• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director