Europe Strategy Director - STA

This role is part of the Europe Strategy network and belonging to Growth Strategy team that is focus to orchestrate the localization of Strategy (How to Win in Europe), ensuring the OU organization wiring is aligned towards a common growth agenda. The Strategy Manager role will be acting as 'in house' strategic consultant, structuring and leading ad-hoc cross-functional analysis and / or projects and partnering with diverse functions and organization levels. This will require the following : What You'll Do for Us:

• Opportunities identification : Partner Portfolio Strategy role and rest of strategy team to prioritize initiatives, in sync with global strategy and Europe ambition.
• How to Win : leverage the network and cross-functional approach to define executable bundles and compelling strategies initiatives.
• Leading / supporting x-functional projects: develop the analysis, connecting the dots and though leadership in collaboration with multifunctional teams.
• Support the orchestration of strategy definition across the System with Bottlers and all relevant functions. Coordinate OU necessary routines to orchestrate the strategy
  
  Education: Bachelor's degree in Business or behavioral science
Desirable Post graduate qualification Essential experience: 10+ years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy related areas Soft skills:
• Strong analytical capabilities and mindset
• Proven trajectory of collaborating and influencing multifunctional peers
• People manager with excellent leadership capability, able to work in a diverse cultural environment, efficient communicator and influencer.
• Negotiation, influence and communication skills to align strategies as well as build value-based relationships through numerous sensitive situations are essential
• Write and present effectively; adjust to fit the audience with appropriate and relevant messaging
• Manage uncertainty and multiple stakeholders
• Multiple interactions and negotiations with management team members of KO system
What We Can Do for You:
• Be part of highly dynamic and networked team
• Access to learning opportunities in a geography with high level of diversity, challenges and potential to grow
Travel requirements: 25% of travel required Skills Influencing; Waterfall Project Management; Relationship Building; Strategic Thinking; Tactical Planning; Financial Modeling; Key Performance Indicators (KPI); Competitor Analysis; Large Group Presentations; Storytelling; Customer Insights; Microsoft Office; Communication; Stakeholder Management; Risk Mitigation Strategies; Long Term Planning; Analytics Software; Syndicated Research; Data Mining; Financial Analysis; Business