🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company – 3 Positions

Coca-Cola HBC (Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company) is a bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola HBC is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange and secondary listing on the Athens Exchange. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company and operates in more than 200 countries.

Life at Coca-Cola HBC is fast-paced and challenging, with fair rewards and exciting learning opportunities. We promote an inclusive workplace, value diverse views and opinions and always appoint the best person for the job, ensuring equality in our shortlists and appointments. Take up the challenge. Join us!

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Senior Director, Public Policy Engagement
2.) Director, Franchise Operations, Nigeria
3.) Director, Commercial Finance - Africa OU

Job Title: Senior Director, Public Policy Engagement

Job ID: R-113731
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time

Position Overview

• The Coca-Cola Africa Operating Unit’s Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability team is looking for a dynamic public policy expert to join its team.
• In this role, you would help shape the way our people, company and brands are represented in key forums and engagements, focusing on building positive relations with critical stakeholders including African multilateral organizations, government, and regulatory bodies.
• The person in this role will interact with internal business stakeholders, industry and our authorized bottling partners as well.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Develop and execute strategic plans pertaining to public policy and government affairs.
• Lead our lobbying efforts and engagement with external stakeholders, including government officials and community leaders.
• Represent the Coca-Cola System in African organizations on public affairs and policy discussions.
• Manage the company’s response to environment, health / ingredients, fiscal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee emerging categories’ policy adherence, responsible consumption, and marketing strategies to support our commitment to social responsibility.
• Develop playbooks for navigating main policy areas.
• Drive projects and advocacy across the Coca-Cola System in Africa.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Related Degree / Diploma or equivalent.
• Proven experience in public policy, government affairs, and public relations, within a global corporation.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in leading strategic engagement and lobbying efforts with various government entities.
• Comprehensive knowledge of environment, fiscal, regulatory, and public affairs management.
• Leadership skills, with the ability to guide and implement strategies across business internally and with bottlers.
• Confident decision-maker with experience managing wider-impact programs, vendors, and resources spanning multiple functions internally and with bottlers.
• Interpersonal skills to navigate complex stakeholder relationships.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Director, Franchise Operations, Nigeria

Job ID: R-108020
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Position Overview

• Provide Leadership and co-ordination of the system to drive long-term system value creation and deliver franchise volume, revenue, profitability and market share objectives through leading the development and execution of franchise development plans/strategic business plans and annual business plans working with our bottling partners.
• Co-ordinate all marketing, commercial and franchise activities across the regions, and support the Senior Director, Franchise Operations in ensuring execution of the Bottler Business Plan (BBPs).
• Leverage functional support and expertise to address opportunities or issues quickly – Marketing, Commercial, Legal, Public Affairs and Communications (PAC), Technical, Finance and Human Resources (HR).

What We'll Do for You
Franchise Leadership:

• Build value based and strategic “win-win” relationships with System partners at all levels up and including Bottler regionals and leadership team.

Strategy and Business Plans Development:

• Develop and implement 3-year Strategic Business Plan (SBP)/Franchise development plans and annual Business Plans (BP) for assigned geography aligning bottler around key investment commitments.
• Ensure execution of annual Bottler Business Plan (BBP) – manage opportunities and issues arising with Bottler National Field Sales Director & Regional Sales Director.
• Ensure execution of annual Customers and Distributor’s Business Plans.

Business Performance:

• Working with Bottler Sales team to help the regional team to deliver the volume, revenue, profit and market share plans. Influencing the national field sales team to help win in the market, understanding competitive intelligence and making the right business choices. Working with the bottler on regional S&Ops, and relevant innovations to be executed as per plans and monitoring with the needed tracking mechanisms in place.
• Ensure adherence to Local Chart of Authority and financial governance standards.
• Ensure application of programs designed to enhance consumer brand equity in BP and BBP.
• Agree overall brand / pack / price / channel plans with the Coca-Cola marketing associates and ensure inclusion of Revenue Growth Management (RGM) strategies and programs in the BP / BBP to maximize revenue generation.
•  Manage Bottler brand mix to maximize brand profitability.
•  Manage Bottler and trade pricing according to brand / package contribution priorities.

Market Execution and Commercial Excellence:

• Identify commercial and market development improvement initiatives to drive incremental volume, revenue, profit and share.
• Ensure the country or territory OBPPC is optimized leveraging Conjoint analysis and the BU experts.
• Drive the RED, Unforgiveable agenda with the bottling partner ensuring it is embedded into organizational culture.
• Actively pursue opportunities to improve our Route to Market, leveraging best practices.
• Ensure application of consumer programs designed to enhance consumer brand equity.
• Drive horizontal expansion through outlet creation incentive programs, and vertical growth through the partnership programs, cooler plan implementation, OBM activations, and premiumization and affordability plans.

Manage Capacity to Produce and Distribute:

• Lead the conversations with our bottling partners to agree investment levels to meet demand
• Monitor capacity performance to anticipate opportunities or challenges in the Supply Chain. Plan three years ahead for investment in Capacity, Glass and Coolers

External Stakeholders and Sustainability:

• Manage the profile and reputation of the company and lobby Governments with the support of PAC
• Lead the Workplace Rights and Human Rights agenda with bottling partner(s)
• Assist fully in the execution of community programs designed to enhance KO reputation within the community

Job Requirements

• Minimum 10-13 years’ experience within the FMCG industry ideally with P&L responsibility. Functional experience within commercial operations would be an advantage. Bottler experience will be an added advantage.
• Strong Commercial understanding, ability to influence to execute plans, with knowledge of distribution, commercial growth levers, Right Execution Daily (RED) and Route to Market (RTM)
• Understanding of full value chain in Coca-Cola or related business
• Solid strategic analysis and thinking skills able to build a sustainable business
• KO system knowledge and clear understanding of the dynamics of the soft drink industry
• People & Customer management skills
• Strong Business Case construction and systemic thinking

Skills:

• Organization; Influencing; Data Driven

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Director, Commercial Finance - Africa OU

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are on the lookout for a seasoned Director of Finance with a sharp focus on System Economics.
• The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker that is ready to provide guidance and insights in the areas of System Economics for the Operating Unit.

What You will Do

• Responsible to generate insights and scenario planning in the areas of System NSR, Value Chain and P&L in service of the Operating Unit’s performance management and decision-making processes. Partner with senior leaders, Planning, Competitive Analysis and Insights Lead as well as Business Insights Lead and FP&A Lead to manage the financial quantification of Long-Range Plan, Annual Business Plan, Monthly Rolling Estimates grounded and integrated in the overall Business Planning at the Operating Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic and operational actions, including:
  • Coordinate with Business Insights and FP&A leads to prepare and provide local business plan insights assumptions for Long Range Plans, Annual Business Plans and Rolling Estimates.
  • Financial forecasting: analyze forecasts, develop and discuss insights with stakeholders, and plan takeaways for System NSR and System P&L.
  • Actively involved and contribute (co-lead) to the Operating Unit Monthly/Quarterly Performance review routines with franchises, Operating Unit Leadership Team and Center.
  • Comprehend and leverage bottler financials implications as a result of Scenario Planning Modelling, contingency, what if? To drive decisions.
• Responsible for stewardship and optimization of information in the areas of System Value Chain, P&L and Scenario Planning within the OU, including:
  • Design and implement information sharing protocols with all bottlers in the Operating Unit.
  • Drive the Operating Unit Finance Digitalization agenda with regard to System Economics (i.e. System Revenue dashboards, System Economic Tools) as well as integration of those with the other digitalized platforms (e.g. TFS, Hyperion) to support decision-making and productivity. Partner and leverage PS for the deployment and advancement of these tools
  • Secure System P&Ls and insights are purposefully provided and disseminated across all Functions and geographies.
• Responsible for stewarding existing economic models and to drive strategic thinking and roadmap on economic model optimization across all Africa OU bottlers and geographies:
  • Proactively steward and educate the broader organization on the existing economic models to maximize System’s and KO’s returns.
  • Provide thought leadership on the evolutions of existing value sharing models, with bottlers aiming to strike the best possible balance between harmonization and for fit-for-purpose models.
  • Lead discussions with anchor (multi-franchise) bottler on evolution of economic models or any other model with regard to new businesses.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics or related fields
• >10 years of leadership experience in either senior financial planning/commercial finance roles or in senior strategy roles.
• Extensive leadership and management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
• Experience in managing bottling relations
• Profound understanding of existing business and economic models.

Work Focus:

• Support end-to-end business and financial planning cycles of the Operating Unit integrating of insights and foresights of System NSR, Value Chain and P&L.
• Holistic understanding of bottlers business performance inside the OU.
• Digitalization agenda: responsible for development, data integrity and reliability of System Economics Tool (SET) and projection models and integration with all other platforms (e.g. TFS).
• Stewardship and strategic thinking on economic models’ agenda across all bottlers and regions. Advisory and partnership in country specific business model negotiations with bottlers.

Travel requirements

• 20% of travel required

What We’ll Do For You

• Empower your Career: Join a team where you can lead critical financial operations, offering ample opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.
• Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you’ve got the tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions.
• Global Reach: We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online