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The Coca-Cola Company Senior Manager, Strategic Insights in London, United Kingdom
A part of the Coca-Cola Europe-wide Strategy team, the Strategic Insights & Analysis team is in charge of bringing a holistic understanding of our business environment to the European organization, by providing a relevant and comprehensive set of insights. We contribute to identifying and prioritizing opportunities for growth as well as refining our strategies, both leveraging existing datasets and creating new research. The key focus areas of the team are strategic planning, competitive intelligence, horizon scanning, shopper research, analytics, innovative tools and methodologies, support to cross-functional strategic projects, and capability building. We work in close collaboration with multiple teams, including Human Insights, in-market Strategy teams, Commercial teams, Finance, Platform Services, etc. as well as our European bottlers.
Key Responsibilities: Connecting insights to support the Europe Strategy leads in framing and aligning on prioritization of key issues and opportunities
Integrate multiple sources of information to drive Europe market understanding to nurture a compelling business strategy in the region.
Coordinate across all Functions to delineate choices to inform Europe strategic priorities.
Design, execute and report back ad-hoc commercial/shopper research and analysis projects as part of an integrated business insights role.
Build and run commercial/shopper research and analyses.
Collaborate with market-level Strategy team, helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize the strategy and identifying local insights relevant for the whole region.
Coordinate with Coca-Cola bottler teams to ensure relevant alignment on data, insights and opportunities.
Participate in Global, European or market-level cross-functional projects, being the voice of strategic insights
Building future insight capabilities
Collaborate with Platform Services on the development, landing and improvement of relevant analysis and tools.
Contribute to implementing new solutions to leverage new digital tools and AI in the development of insights.
Communicating with key stakeholders
Communicate with other functions and particularly with Markets/Commercial/Marketing/Finance Leaders to synthetize market trends into actionable regional business opportunities.
Collaborate with Europe Strategy community to contribute to best practice building for insights across the function
Related Work Experience:
Essential experience: experience in Strategy, Market Research and Analytics related areas.
Proven trajectory as project leader, collaborating with and influencing multifunctional peers.
Experience with research agency or consulting a plus.
Functional Skills: Required skills:
Problem-solving capabilities to better direct analysis requirements.
Strategic thinking around industry and competitive assessment.
Storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories.
Market research proficiency: qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Understanding of the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business. Intermediate to advanced analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools.
Strong analytical, data interpretation and synthesis skills to convert complex models and data into applied conclusions.
Strong project management and agency management capabilities.
Consumer and commercial insights experience.
Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to drive projects forward in a network environment and across the system.
Excellent oral and written English required, other European languages are a plus.
Desirable skills:
Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition and evaluation).
Experience in Digital/AI fields.
Bottling partners key data sources and recurring analysis methodologies.
Travel requirement: up to 25% travel required
Skills:
Influencing; Customer Experience (CX); Continual Improvement Process; Business Transformation; Collaborative Leadership; Business Processes; Industry Networking; Project Management; Trend Analysis; Agile Methodology; Microsoft Office; Communication; Process Management; Long Term Planning; Corporate 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.