Director, Franchise Strategy Integration - India Independents + SWA

Job Descriptions Title: Director, Franchise Strategy Integration [India Independents + SWA]

Location - Gurgaon

What you'll do for us:

This leadership role is responsible for supporting and challenging the Franchise team in implementing the commercial strategy and developing actionable commercial insights at market level. This will be achieved by:

• Collaborating with Franchise, Marketing, Finance and Commercial teams to define and adjust execution strategy
• Partnering with Franchise to lead system end-to-end alignment process with Bottlers at local level
• Pulling data & insights from identify granular opportunities and create actionable commercial levers at market level
• Identification and preliminary evaluation of strategic projects in support of the growth goals for the Franchise and managing the Franchise strategic project portfolio, working with Franchise teams and OU functions
• Measuring success or lack thereof, objectively feeding back the learnings from each project for future projects

• Must be mastered in the development of actionable compelling consumer and commercial insights, strategies and initiatives at the market level
• Use a fact-based, strategic approach to identify the insights, strategies and leading-edge solutions to boost local/granular commercial strategy, with actionable commercial levers
• Steward end to end alignment process with Bottlers. Aligning the bottler ultimately rests with the Franchise Lead
• Capture and network best practices, import and export good ideas
• Manage uncertainty and multiple stakeholders
• Role model the 'Leadership in the Network' definition

• +15 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy related areas
• Proven trajectory as leader of others and influencing a senior leadership team
• Able to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels

• Multiple top-level interactions and negotiations with senior management team members of KO System
• Strong influencing, presentation and communication skills to align strategies as well as build value-based relationships through numerous sensitive situations [typically with bottler]
• Ability to adjust to fit the audience with appropriate and relevant messaging