The Sr. Manager, Innovation will play a critical role leading the present day and long-term innovation strategy and pipeline for the FSOP organization. They will be responsible for working across category/brand teams to partner on opportunities for the FSOP organization, as well as working with the large customer teams on specific, high impact opportunities. They will be the conduit between the FSOP organization and the commercial teams and will help prioritize and guide the process on product and category innovation.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Represents the total Trademark commercial perspective in all discussions/decisions across bottler network and communicates initiatives to bottlers and customer teams.

• Ensure representation of channel needs and proper translation of brand strategies across retail & foodservice channels.

• Partners with brand team to ensure commercial leadership organization serves as a single source of direction delivering and transformation brand strategies into actionable plans.

• Responsible for the development, implementation, and achievement of annual commercial business plan.

• Align channel input on price/pack architecture and ensure channel coherency and directs and steward’s commercial development of all new item introductions.

• Lead collaboration with Revenue Growth Management functions to develop tools and tracking for sales teams to ensure maximization of revenue and gross profit.

• Support category/brand teams in determining program budget, manages the program allocations across channels/customers and re-allocates funding based on performance.

• Supports Commercial Leadership category strategic planning and performance management.

• Lead development of tools and tracking to ensure profitable growth across the portfolio.

• Partners with product/package leads in creation of brand/ package launch decks/PAGS for delivery to channel planning and sales teams for use in the market.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or another related field.

• 5-7 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry

• Leadership and experience working across multiple channels – e.g., large store, small store, and Foodservice/On Premise channels.

• Experience in brand and category management, coordinating pricing and promotions, and customer and sales.

• Demonstrates strong business acumen through the ability to create a 1-3-year business plan for brand/category and a path to achieve that vision, anticipating future trends and needs in the marketplace and business; demonstrates innovation/creativity

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and build relationships at all organizational levels; communicates long-term vision and shorter-term opportunities through clear & simple messages.

• People leadership/management – specifically, managing virtual teams and influencing multiple stakeholders with different priorities.

• Strong track record of leadership across cross-functional teams

What We Can Do For You

• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.

• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day

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Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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