Senior Director I, Nutrition Planning, Sales & Operations

At the Coca-Cola Company, we work collaboratively to find new and innovative ways to strategically move the business forward by balancing the short-term results and long-term sustainability while proactively leading, shaping, and creating system value. We set the standards and policies for the Company and we’re looking for candidates with a proven ability to analyze and interpret financial data in order to make a global impact for some of the most recognized brands in the world.

Today, we are excited to be posting for a Senior Director, Finance for our Nutrition Group, supporting Planning, Sales & Operations.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Lead development of finance analysis (value chain analysis, financial modelling, opportunity assessment, return on investment analysis to develop recommendations to business leads and strategy assessments to support decision making.

• Forecasting and business analytics leadership of volume and revenue forecast while ensuring a high level of forecast accuracy is delivered.

• Analysis of business results and recommending forward actions to close gaps to plan or accelerate the business results.

• Analysis of business performance for gaps versus plan and lead the development of contingencies/solves for leadership teams.

• Understand external and competitive category performance to inform decisions. Leadership of financial management with the customer teams, which requires strong customer focus and influence.

• Communicate and interpret findings across brand, category and consumer based on financial analysis that provides additional perspectives on implications, risk, opportunity, and trends.

• Build value-based relationships with Brand, Customer, Commercial, RGM, Franchise, Supply Chain, Legal and other key associates.

• Review, improve, provide input, approve, and present completed analyses that requires expert knowledge of financial models and application of strategic and operational measures to assess economic and commercial viability of proposed investments.

• Coach, guide, and mentor networked team in managing and building their quantitative and analytical skills. Establishing key relationships that can be leveraged to strengthen team capabilities and to provide career advancement opportunities in the organization.

Qualification & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or related field, with a Master’s preferred.

• 7+ years of global financial management experience with responsibility for operations with people and resources management experience.

• Experienced in Annual Business Planning and strategic thinking including applying forecasting techniques and skills to develop and evaluate business goals and strategies, analyzing information to derive insights and implications to initiate planning/re-planning, and controlling actual results vs. budget.

• Must possess ability to motivate and develop the talent and to collaborate with cross-functional peers to define the business plan/rolling estimate deliverables.

• Strong understanding of customer P&L management (including drivers of volume, revenue, and gross profit), revenue growth management capabilities, forecasting and trade spend effectiveness.

• Ability to evaluate business planning goals/strategies and analyze financials to derive at insights and initiate gap solving for Nutrition leadership team.

• Strong change management capabilities – demonstrates innovation and creativity to create business solutions; ability to influence/gain alignment across divergent perspectives.

What We Can Do For You:

• Agile & Innovative Software Platforms: Each day we are working to improve efficiency and reporting using top tier platforms and technologies.

• Connections: We work cross-functionally across different business groups to make sure that we can put together the clearest numbers & projections for our customers.

• Diverse Customers: We work with thousands of customers each day which range from international large-retail chains, grocery stores, restaurants, airports, and so many more.

This role reports to the VP, Finance, Nutrition

Location: Chicago, IL

Skills:

Budgeting, Communication, Decision Making, Economics, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Financial Statements, Forecasting Process, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Group Problem Solving, Internal Auditing, Microsoft Office, Teamwork, Value Chain