Coca-Cola is looking for an Operations Manager.
What You’ll Do for the Company:
Operationalize the plan
Prepare and own the common performance scorecard for the region & lead setting and monitoring of right KBIs for all critical initiatives
Work with Business Operations to ensure that all initiatives activated in market are fully optimized, leveraging best practice execution and in-store activation, and maximizing the opportunity
Work with Business Operations, Marketing, C&CL, bottler to ensure that all initiatives achieve the specified KPIs, working closely with involved functions and bottler
Support execution of integrated consumer, shopper and commercial plans based on BP / System mitigation / acceleration agreement collaborating with System partners
Provide value-added consumer / shopper, trade, competition and general country information (media scene, etc)
Support key system routines that will enable efficient and fast decision-making to drive forward the plan
Opportunity Identification & Implementation
Support the identification of incremental revenue & volume, channel customer opportunities (by country, by brand, by channel by package, by consumption occasion, by beverage category) that will enable the business to grow ahead of market and competition in the short or longer term.
Work with networked resources (RGM, Marketing, Ecommerce, etc.) to develop and implement programs that capitalize on identified opportunities, including definition of clear KPIs.
Ensure an understanding of full competitive landscape having full overview & implications for us and our system in the short and longer term.
Lead / Support Strategic Projects
Support key projects of system from TCCC side that have big impact for today or tomorrow (tax implementation plans, new RTM, models, etc…)
Help define opportunities for segmented execution and collaborate with the bottler on developing plans that capture this incremental revenue and profit opportunity
Work together with partners on specific local customer opportunities and on way forward
Qualification & Requirements:
Fluent in Russian
Based in Russia
+8 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Marketing/Commercial
Commercial knowledge (shopper marketing, channel strategy, customer management, negotiations and local market understanding)
Marketing skills: knowledge of brand strategy, consumer communication and marketing plans
Proven experience at managing complex and challenging projects
Proven experience at working with bottler
Must have good ability to identify patterns from data and to identify drivers and conclusions.
Must have solid understanding of portfolio management, identification of opportunities for growth & priority setting within expanded framework of responsibilities
Must have strong ability to transfer strategies into execution plans
Must assess local external business environment (government regulation, taxes, inflation, devaluation, political instability, competition and advise action plans
Sets an example for TCCC leadership values
Adapts and lives in the networked way of working mindset with full collaboration
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; influential skills
Ability to build and leverage relationships with key business partners, comfortable in working with senior leaders
Ability to work in networked teams with full collaboration
Ability to understand complex challenges & linkages and articulate into plans to drive results
Travel requirements: 20% of travel required.
