Senior Manager Strategy Integration France

As Senior Strategy Manager for France, you report to the France Strategy Integration Senior Director as part of the Europe Strategy team.

**What You’ll Do for Us**:

- Guide and influence key system stakeholders in prioritizing key initiatives, by identifying key opportunities in the market
- Connect the dots, leveraging multiple data sources (internal sales data, sell-out data, household-panel data, market research studies, advanced analytical models, consumer trackings,) to develop powerful and leading-edge business insights.
- Lead the creation of actionable insights, supporting Marketing & Business Ops in localizing the European strategy by understanding category, shopper and channel opportunities and ways to accelerate the business performance.
- Link external, macroeconomic and competitor context and insight to business performance to facilitate decision making and drive the business forward.
- Effectively communicate those integrated insights (Consumer-Shopper-Customer) across the Franchise system and act as a connection point between the KO Company and our bottling partners.
- Understand the relationship between shopper insights, category drivers and sales data in driving business and customer performance.
- Build true partner relationships with Franchise leadership, Marketing, finance, and bottler teams to drive insights into action.

**Key responsibilities**
- ** Preparation of Performance Management routines locally**
- Primary contributor to monthly performance review in close collaboration with Finance and Revenue Growth Management functions: delivering toplines monthly analysis, update of the performance scorecard, leveraging Nielsen and Kantar/GfK tools in priority
- Support the preparation of France leadership team routines
- ** Manage relationship with our external insights agencies** and project partners
- ** Daily support to address key business questions and insights** relating to the understanding of our performance in the market.
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- Analytical support to strategy, RGM, operations and marketing teams, participation in strategic reflections and in-depth analyses
- Ensure understanding of business performance by synthesizing data from consumer, shopper and customer sources
- ** Drive performance management automation** and capability-building efforts for France

**Skills**
- Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connect the dots to develop a holistic approach to support key business decisions.
- Problem framing and solving: structure and coordinate / lead cross functional/ cross system analysis, initiatives, or efforts. Ease with ambiguity and the ability to carefully work through complex situations.
- Prioritization: prioritize through a pragmatic fact-based approach, handling trade-offs, balancing immediate and long-term priorities.
- Synthesis and Storytelling: Clearly communicate solutions to key stakeholders in well-structured and compelling manner, using a combination of PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and other similar tools.
- Stakeholer management: identify, influence, align and engage key stakeholders.
- Systemic thinking: Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts and global capabilities implementation. Being comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to challenge the status quo.

**Qualifications & Requirements**:

- Education: 5+ year of Business and/or functional experience in Strategy/Operation/RGM/ business analysis related areas
- Knowledge about consumer, beverages market, retail, and standard research methodologies
- Advanced level of Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent analytical skills including knowledge of panels (Nielsen and Kantar): you are comfortable with the interpretation of figures and seek to understand the behavior and business implications behind the data, you have a strong analytical mind, an excellent capacity to synthesize and attach importance to details
- Proven trajectory of collaborating and influencing multifunctional peers and relevant project management experiences
- Mastering the development of actionable compelling commercial insights, strategies and initiatives at the market level and translating them into ‘so what’
- Write and present effectively; adjust to fit the audience
- Able to work in a diverse cultural environment
- Language(s): Fluent in French and English (both written and spoken)

**Location**: Issy-les-Moulineaux (92), France

**Skills**

Influencing; Strategic Thinking; Microsoft PowerPoint; Influencing Skills; Synthesizing Complex Information; Forecasting; Analytical Thinking; Problem Framing; Microsoft Excel; Prioritization; Storytelling; Customer Insights; Systemic Thinking; Stakeholder Management; Problem Solving

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