Director, Strategy

l as Mid/Long term Strategy within the market dynamics and offer course correction perspective and proposal to the System.

• Identify key business questions to be addressed to distill powerful insights for the business to tackle on System level.

• Input the key business Opportunity and Challenges into Mid/Long term strategy development process (LRP/Long Range Plan) from various lens of Macro/Industry/Competitive landscape.

• Drive comprehensive Competitive Intelligence of local industry and players to make timely inputs and facilitate robust decision making, wiring the OU together and connecting with the broader global TCCC network

• Act as an 'in house' consultancy partner, structuring and leading ad-hoc cross-functional analysis or projects to drive the business on growth trajectory

• Explore and Build External connections to leverage opportunities through networks

• Confident leader who can influence across different functions in the OU (including Marketing, Franchise, Commercial, Finance, R&D, Technical, among others) as well as Bottling Partners

• Requires ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with senior leadership

• Requires ability to convince others within and outside of the organization to agree/ accept new concepts, practices, and approaches impacting sub-functional/ business strategy

Qualifications & Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in several Business Development roles, such as Strategy, Planning, Marketing, Insights, Consulting, among others

• Experience in growth planning/strategy as well as in execution, ideally in B2C but can be B2B if end product/service is consumer facing

• Business level verbal and written Japanese

• Can be on-site (Shibuya office) 60% of interactions

• Integrate multiple insights and complex issues through a broad and holistic approach

• Set the agenda of strategic direction for the business and lead to actionable solutions by collaborating with accountable functions

• Partners with senior leaders to orchestrate and wire the strategy and solution deployment, prioritizing efforts, influencing, aligning and engaging key stakeholders in timely manner

• Identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple countries into an OU-specific perspective without losing the power of local insights.

• Understands and effectively utilize the different sources of data and information required to drive choices and solutions to the business.

• Extensively analyzes problems to seek understanding of the root cause of the problems or to reach insight that leads to implication for action

• Has growth mindset, motivated to continually challenge oneself to learn and grow, and willingly take the team together

• Has the agility and resilience to operate in ambiguity and be okay to move ahead with assertiveness

What We Can Do For You:

• Career Development: The Coca-Cola Company offers a wide range of resources and programs to support your career development, including global learning programs and leadership development programs.
• Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation.
• Learning Culture: Access to resources such as LinkedIn Learning and management programs that give you the resources to continually develop your skills and knowledge.