Geographies responsible: Thailand Function: ASP Strategy  Reports to: VP, ASP Strategy  Location: Bangkok, Thailand  We empower our employees to challenge the status quo, make bold recommendations, experiments, and adapt, so we can grow together and make a great business even better. This position provides guidance, leadership, and direction for contracts and categories affecting millions in annual spend.  As a individual contributor, you will work with key members of our Supply Chain teams to ensure that all sourcing initiatives and strategies are aligned with business requirements.  We're looking for an individual that has negotiating skills and an ability to drive results that affect the bottom line.  **Job Description Summary**   Overall responsibility for the corporate planning and strategy function covering analysis of the political, regulatory and competitive environment as well as internal, organizational and technical analysis; develops long-term strategic planning to achieve the company's long-term objectives. Managing teams with a focus on policy and strategy implementation and control rather than development; short-term operational/tactical responsibilities.  **Job Description:** As the Franchise Strategy Director for Thailand, you will be operating as a individual contributor responsible for helping craft the long-term strategy, annual business planning and performance deep dives for Thailand, help translate this strategy into a full year Long Range Plana / Annual Business Plan and work with the Frontline teams to ensure monthly performance tracks to the commitments made in these plans. Reporting to the ASP Strategy VP, in this role your key stakeholders will be the Franchise leads for the South cluster   What you will do for us: **  **   + **LRP** Support the development of the OU LRP by providing local context from frontline and bottlers and translate OU LRP to Franchise LRP to secure alignment from bottler on key priorities,    + Build **ABP** presentation inside the Franchise unit, for alignment with the bottlers and for presentation to the OULT,    + Support **Bottler** alignmentby ensuring scheduling (incl. board meetings and T2T meetings), sending monthly reports/ board talking points, setting the agenda, preparing high quality material, ensuring pre-alignment, running the meeting, deploying next steps,    + Support **Monthly performance review** for South including studying data, building out summary **/** decision document, and discussing in frontline and presenting in the OULT as needed,   + **Market specific or OU wide deep dives** on key topics as surfaced in the performance review and agreed with the frontline leadership within allowable time   + Working together with the cluster leadership team and center to identify opportunities for growth in markets   Qualifications and Requirements: ** ** + 7+ years of experience in the FMCG space or in Management consulting   **Top skills needed:**    **ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT**    + Owns tactical and operational plans with short to mid-term focus (1-3 years) executing organizational strategy in alignment with parent/independent organization objectives, recommending operational strategies and plans with direct impact on results   + As an individual contributor operates with broad latitude in a complex environment, acts as a subject matter expert within the organization. manages large projects or processes, coaches associate in skills, delegates work to them and reviews it   + Problems and issues faced are difficult and often complex and may require understanding of a broader set of issues.    **INNOVATION & COMPLEXITY**    + Responsible for making improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area   + Problems are solved by identifying the root cause of the problem and modifying solutions applied to similar problems     **COMMUNICATION & INFLUENCE**    + Requires ability to influence parties within and outside of the job function at an operational level regarding policies, procedures and practices    + Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function   + Frequently required to communicate with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.)       What we will do for you ** **   + This role will help you sharpen your thought leadership. The strategy team is tasked with cracking the nut on some of our most intellectually challenging problems and you will gain on the job learning on how to do this well   + This role will help you practice you people leadership to enrich your own ability to interact with and handle a diverse group of senior leaders as well as highly capable peers   + This role will transform your knowledge of our business with a granular understand of all our markets and especially on the complex relationship we share and manage with our bottling partners   + This role will give you privileged network visibility and understanding as you look over a wide range of topics panning markets and functions and connect into global teams and processes   + This role will help you shape the company culture in your own way. Being part of ways of working initiatives will allow you to understand ASP at the grass roots and create real impact in the lives of our associates   + A tenure in this role could help you make a switch into a longer career in Strategy in ASP or Globally, enrich your profile to perform at a different level in the function of your choosing or prepare you for a transition into franchise or frontline operations   **About Coca Cola ASEAN & South Pacific** The CocaCola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company's purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. The CocaCola ASEAN and South Pacific (ASP) operating unit serves 25 countries across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands in ASP includes Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. We also offer a variety of water, sports, juice, dairy, and tea brands including Dasani, Mount Franklin, Wilkins, AdeS, smartwater, vitaminwater, Powerade, Fuze Tea, Minute Maid and Nutriboost. We're constantly innovating and transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing new and exciting products to market. We seek to positively impact people's lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we help bring economic opportunity to local communities across the region. Learn more at www.coca-colacompany.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. The Coca-Cola Company: Refresh the World. Make a Difference We are here to refresh the world and make a difference. Learn more about The Coca-Cola Company, our brands and our purpose. **Skills:** Influencing; Strategic Thinking; Relationship Building; Tactical Planning; Financial Modeling; Key Performance Indicators (KPI); Professional Presentation; Competitor Analysis; Storytelling; Waterfall Model; Customer Insights; Microsoft Office; Communication; Stakeholder Management; Risk Mitigation Strategies; Long Term Planning; Analytics Software; Syndicated Research; Data Mining; Financial Analysis Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30 Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target. 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