Director, Corporate Strategy

Job Description Summary:

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.

What You’ll Do for Us

• 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

Qualifications & Experience

• 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

Key Knowledge Required:

• Critical Thinking
• Data Analysis & Insights
• Process Management & Improvement
• Business Acumen
• Networking & Influencing
• Collaboration
• AI-Enabled Productivity & Ways of Working
• Digital Tools Adoption & Change Leadership

Broad Expertise in:

• Technology
• Agile ways of working
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Storytelling

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Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

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Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.