Director, Strategic Insight & Analysis

Director, Strategic Insight & Analysis

Focus, Scope, and Impact

This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the business landscape to localize the global 'Where to play' definitions. The role will leverage data and high-quality insights, anchored in data and facts, to impact business results and growth. The concept of 'end-to-end' analysis is critical for success in this role.

What You'll Do for Us

• Connect insights to frame and align on prioritization of key issues and opportunities

• Connect the different research, data, and insights sources to nurture a compelling business strategy in the region

• Synthesize data and insights from all Functions and Platform Services to delineate choices that inform Operating Unit strategic priorities

• Enhance local strategy and contribute to development of global strategy

• Analyze/Benchmark/rationalize the strategy based on local considerations

• Support Country Strategy Leads by helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize and enhance the Country plans

• Build future knowledge capabilities for the operating unit and for the Global Enterprise

• Interface and provide thought leadership with Platform services, global teams, and functions to secure the right data and new methods for developing knowledge

• Ability to partner with senior leaders to develop, localize, enhance, and deploy insights that drive strategic decision-making at the Operating Unit level and across functions.

• Ability to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple sources into specific perspectives. Understands the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business.

• Ability to not only sufficiently analyze but also to link together the whole - 'connect the dots' between multiple sources of data and analyses.

• This role is responsible for communicating internally across different leaders to effectively disseminate the synthesized insights that support decision making.

• This role will be the key connector of the Strategy Function with Platform services (PS), and therefore, will be responsible for leading conversations between functions and data source integration.

• This role will also require communication with Bottling Partner leadership as part of building future insight capabilities for the System, such as creating a systemic view of the challenges and opportunities to better align the Company and Bottling Partners.

• Synthesis and storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories

• Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct research and analysis requirements; comfort with ambiguity

• Critical thinking around industry and competitive assessment: business and execution strategy

• AI/machine learning basics to explore innovation in analytical methodologies

• Intermediate to advance analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools

• Understand continuous tracking methodologies, and recurring analysis methodologies

• Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition, and evaluation)

• Systemic thinking: integrating different pieces to create a whole picture

• Facilitation skills and business acumen to drive better conversations into practical applications

• Provide a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that is squarely focused on capturing data-driven growth opportunities.

• Opportunities for your work to directly impact on-the-ground business operations via the networked organization. Opportunity to influence and shape the overall strategy of the global enterprise.

• Offer 'Freedom within a Framework' and a general preference for the 'next' vs. traditional. Permission to push the organization in exploring a wide range of new insights-generating methodologies. Ample room for whitespace thinking.

• An inclusive team environment; a 'learning organization' as opposed to a 'know-it-all organization.'

• Provide an expansive breadth and depth of merit-based personal growth opportunities.