Business Operations Director - Denmark

This leadership role is responsible for driving the growth strategy in the Danish market aligning Company & Bottlers towards the yearly growth plans and securing end-to-end market execution.

What You'll Do for Us:

• Lead the Danish Franchise Operations with full end-end responsibility including setting, growth ambition, strategy development, portfolio management, RGM & commercial execution, internal & external stakeholder management.

• Deliver Danish (incl. Iceland) Business Plan commitments - lead annual business planning together with the bottler (Carlsberg), manage ongoing business, decide on corrective actions to ensure results are delivered.

• Deliver the commercial development agenda, focus on 'big wins' which offer transformational change to the financial performance of the system - RGM, BPPO, Shopper Marketing

• Lead the Country Operations function leverage the multi-functional resources in the network

• Clearly and consistently understand the anatomy of our business and the competition to provide execution support to Bottler senior management and strengthen KO-Bottler partnership with Carlsberg

• Primary responsible for improving competitive position at the designated countries.

• Responsible for P&L for the designated country/territory

• Drives the execution of the strategic agenda integrating System partners and the network around a holistic strategy and plan

• Governs system business routines (Performance weekly & quarterly, financial, Quality, CIF etc.) around key business indicators to assess evolution and adjust plans

• Support external stakeholder management with representation of the company in Norway & Iceland where relevant.

• 15 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy/Sales related areas

• Proven trajectory as leader of leaders and influencing a senior leadership team

• People manager with excellent leadership capability, able to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels

• Must have robust understanding of system dynamics, business strategy, portfolio management and end-end execution

• Must be a master in the extraction of actionable commercial insights and development of competitive strategies and initiatives

• Have solid risk management and contingency planning skills

• Lead end to end alignment of country integrated execution plan process with Bottling partners

• Capture and network best practices, import and export good ideas

• Role model the 'Leadership in the Network' definition

• Multiple top-level interactions with senior management team members of KO system

• Strong negotiation, influence and communication skills to align strategies as well as build value-based relationships through numerous sensitive situations (typically with bottler) are essential

• Ability to lead cross functional teams with non-hierarchical networks with strong collaboration and communication skills