Senior Manager, Franchise Strategy - North

Function: ASEAN & South Pacific (ASP) Strategy

Reports to: Director, Franchise Strategy - North

Job Description Summary

Overall responsibility for the reporting and insights covering analysis of the macro economy, industry movement, competitive environment, consumer understanding as well as long-term/ short-term strategic planning to achieve the company's objectives. Managing relevant agencies and stakeholders with focus on retails measurement data, macro and competition, and strategic planning.

Job Description

Position overview: As the Senior Manager, Franchise Strategy for North, you will be responsible for helping craft the long-term strategy for the North cluster, help translate this strategy into a full year Annual Business Plan and work with the Frontline teams to ensure monthly performance tracks to the commitments made in these plans. Reporting to Director, Franchise Strategy - North, in this role your key stakeholders will be the Franchise VP for North and the Frontline leadership team, internally and in the bottling partners.

• Ensure the efficient operation of retails audit measurement data, macro economy metrics, competition landscape.
• Monthly/ Quarterly performance review for North cluster including studying data, building out summary/ discussion points, discussing with frontline people and presenting in the Leadership team and with the bottling partners as needed.
• Support the development of the long-range planning by providing local context from frontline and bottlers, and translate regional long-range plan to market long-term plan, including securing alignment from bottlers on key priorities
• Build Annual Business Plan presentation inside the Franchise unit, for alignment with the bottlers and for presentation to the regional leadership team
• Support by ensuring scheduling (incl. board meetings and Top-to-Top meetings), sending monthly reports/ board talking points, setting the agenda, preparing high quality material, ensuring pre-alignment, running the meeting, deploying next steps
• Orchestrate other routine in setting the agenda for the meeting, running the meeting and deploying next steps after each meeting (related to monthly/ quarterly performance review only)
• Market specific or regional wide deep-dive on key topics as surfaced in the performance review and agreed with the frontline leadership within allowable time

• Familiar with Nielsen RMS/ Kantar world panel and Consumer sentiment
• Comfortable in dealing with large amount of data generated from various sources and in different format.
• Organize and hold senior level meetings
• Absorb large amounts of performance information and create clarity out of complexity
• Verbally communicate with confidence and manage conflict
• Write impactful narratives in word and in ppt
• Ability to think ahead and organize milestones and deliverable to happen on time
• Comfort with constant change and evolution of agendas
• Genuine interest in people and collaboration
• Future back vision pertaining to data transformation