Director, Corporate Strategy

The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a senior strategy professional in Atlanta to partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams on corporate development priorities. You will drive analysis, develop pragmatic recommendations, and surface opportunities to accelerate enterprise initiatives while promoting AI-enabled productivity across the function.

You will lead work-streams, coordinate with OUs/Functions, and influence stakeholders at all levels, demonstrating strong communication and

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of business experience in strategy, finance, or generalist fields
• Graduate Degree in business, strategy or related field
• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment and influence at all levels
• Ability to partner with leaders of Corporate Strategy and network of OUs/Functions
• Strong problem solving with hypothesis-driven analysis and clear implications
• Team player with willingness to support others on projects
• Ability to handle ambiguity and multi-task across priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize analyses
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with generative AI and digital productivity tools

Responsibilities

• Partner and collaborate inside the department with Sr. leaders and cross-functionally
• Own work-streams with limited guidance and drive initiatives
• Conduct analyses and provide initial pragmatic recommendations
• Surface opportunities to achieve enterprise priorities
• Drive analysis and insights; share results with Operating Committee
• Lead networks of peers/consultants to deliver end-products
• Advocate for AI/digital productivity tools to improve analysis and delivery
• Share AI best practices and coach associates on effective use cases

Skills

Strategic thinking

Data analysis

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

AI / Digital tools usage

Team collaboration

Education

Graduate degree in business, strategy or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

AI tools

Job description

What You’ll Do for Us

• Partner and collaborate inside the department with various Sr. leaders, including the Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Vice President, Enterprise-Wide Initiatives & Strategic Transformation, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and Vice President, Enterprise Learning, as well as outside the department with Functions/OUs/Platform Services based on the priorities of the enterprise and the department.

• For priorities identified, be a critical project team member to deliver expectations. Drive own work-stream effectively with limited guidance, demonstrating initiative and the ability to be self-driven; proactively raise issues and challenges that occur along the way.

• Conduct analysis to provide initial recommendations for workstream that solve specific issues identified and that are sufficiently pragmatic.

• More broadly, demonstrate increasing understanding of the priorities of the function and take the initiative to surface opportunities to achieve them.

• Drive relevant analysis and insights (be able to offer initial implications of analysis), both individually and with the help of PS/OUs/Functions to support rotating priorities and share results in a digestible manner to Operating Committee.

• For specific workstreams, lead a network of peers and/or consultants to drive towards end-products and clear deliverables.

• Serve as a super user and advocate for enterprise-approved AI and digital productivity tools to enhance strategic analysis, accelerate insight generation, improve team productivity, and increase the quality and speed of deliverables.

• Share leading AI best practices, coach Strategy associates on effective use cases, and promote adoption of approved AI capabilities

Qualifications & Experience

• 7-9 years of business experience, with experience in strategy, finance, or other generalist fields

• Graduate Degree in business, strategy or a related field

• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels, depending on priorities of the Strategy department, exemplifying network ways of working

• Ability to partner with leaders of the Corporate Strategy team as well as the network of OUs/Functions/Platform Services.

• Strong problem solving - ability to be hypothesis-driven, drive from analysis to insights and implications, be comfortable taking in data and input from a variety of different sources, and to be structured and logical in thinking

• Strong team player willing to help others out in team during projects

• Analytical with attention to detail but at the same time able to be 80:20, prioritize appropriately and to be comfortable with a certain amount of ambiguity

• Ability to rotate across priorities and multi-task, leverage relationships with key business partners, comfortable in working closely with OUs/Functions/Platform Services, with stakeholder management capabilities

• Outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal) - ability to synthesize, some ability to pull disparate analyses together into a single narrative; some ability to develop visually compelling charts and create portions of crisply written white papers that focus on key messages.

• Proficiency in both Microsoft Excel (for analysis) and PowerPoint (for visual communication)

• Demonstrated experience using generative AI, automation, analytics, and digital productivity tools to improve business processes, enhance problem solving and decision making, data analysis, communication, and productivity in a business environment

• Curiosity and aptitude for learning and applying new digital and AI capabilities, with the ability to translate technological advances into practical applications and outcomes

Key Knowledge Required:

• Critical Thinking

• Data Analysis & Insights

• Process Management & Improvement

• Business Acumen

• Networking & Influencing

• Collaboration

• AI-Enabled Productivity & Ways of Working

• Digital Tools Adoption & Change Leadership

Broad Expertise in:

• Technology

• Agile ways of working

• Comfort with ambiguity

• Storytelling

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.