Director, Corporate Strategy

The Coca-Cola Company • Atlanta, GA

1d • $164,000 - $193,000 • 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 with various senior leaders within and outside the department to deliver on enterprise priorities. The Director will be a critical project team member, driving their own workstreams with limited guidance, conducting analysis to provide recommendations, and demonstrating an understanding of functional priorities to surface opportunities. They will lead networks of peers and consultants, serve as a super user for AI and digital productivity tools, and promote the adoption of these capabilities.

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, 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)
• Demonstrated experience using generative AI, automation, analytics, and digital productivity tools to improve business processes, enhance problem solving and decision making, data analysis, communication, and productivity in a business environment
• Curiosity and aptitude for learning and applying new digital and AI capabilities, with the ability to translate technological advances into practical applications and outcomes
• Critical Thinking
• Data Analysis & Insights
• Process Management & Improvement
• Business Acumen
• Networking & Influencing
• Collaboration
• AI-Enabled Productivity & Ways of Working
• Digital Tools Adoption & Change Leadership
• 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

• Broad Expertise in: Technology
• Agile ways of working
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Storytelling

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Serve as a super user and advocate for enterprise-approved AI and digital productivity tools to enhance strategic analysis, accelerate insight generation, improve team productivity, and increase the quality and speed of deliverables.
• Share leading AI best practices, coach Strategy associates on effective use cases, and promote adoption of approved AI capabilities

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