Coca-Cola Company Careers

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
We are seeking students currently pursuing courses in:

• Engineering – (Automotive, Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronics)
• Quality Control (Microbiology, Food Science and Occupational Health and Safety)
• Refrigeration and Airconditioning
• Supply Chain Management
• Sales & Marketing
• BBIT or Computer Science

Skills, Experience & Education    

• Potential candidates must be third or fourth year Degree Students
• Second- or Third-Year Diploma students.

We are focused on driving growth through strategic brand leadership and execution, aligning long-term objectives with market opportunities to maximize share and equity. We are looking for a talented leader to head the Uplift pillar and shape the future of our brands across Africa Operating Unit.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Lead the Uplift pillar for CCTM(Coca-Cola Trade Mark) in AOU( Africa Operating Unit)
• Lead the Long Range Plans and Annual Business Plan thinking for the Uplift pillar in AOU. Identify and prioritize growth opportunities based on BU long-term vision & brands long-term objectives. Develop brand strategies & plans to maximize equity and share growth.
• Lead Uplift platforms, leading multi-functional teams, providing direction and facilitating decision-making, to ensure timely delivery of highest-quality programs.
• Work closely with the Frontline Marketing teams to gain alignment on strategies and initiatives, ensuring flawless execution.
• Lead the System to full alignment of the business strategies and plans, ensuring consistent implementation.
• As part of the CCTM Global Network, this role will work closely with the Global team and with other OUs, collaborating in the global strategy, partnering with the other OUs in the global charters, and sharing best practices.
• Leading the direct and indirect team.
• Manage the Direct Marketing Expense behind the Uplift platform in order to optimize investments and improve return.

Qualification & Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, or a related field is required
• 14+ years of experience in Marketing, including both strategic and operational marketing.
• Previous experience as a Brand Director and in brand management.
• Prior experience in FMCG desired
• Digitally savvy

What You will Do:

• Responsible to generate insights and scenario planning in the areas of System NSR, Value Chain and P&L in service of the Operating Unit’s performance management and decision-making processes. Partner with senior leaders, Planning, Competitive Analysis and Insights Lead as well as Business Insights Lead and FP&A Lead to manage the financial quantification of Long-Range Plan, Annual Business Plan, Monthly Rolling Estimates grounded and integrated in the overall Business Planning at the Operating Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic and operational actions, including:
  • Coordinate with Business Insights and FP&A leads to prepare and provide local business plan insights assumptions for Long Range Plans, Annual Business Plans and Rolling Estimates.
  • Financial forecasting: analyze forecasts, develop and discuss insights with stakeholders, and plan takeaways for System NSR and System P&L.
  • Actively involved and contribute (co-lead) to the Operating Unit Monthly/Quarterly Performance review routines with franchises, Operating Unit Leadership Team and Center.
  • Comprehend and leverage bottler financials implications as a result of Scenario Planning Modelling, contingency, what if? To drive decisions.
• Responsible for stewardship and optimization of information in the areas of System Value Chain, P&L and Scenario Planning within the OU, including:
  • Design and implement information sharing protocols with all bottlers in the Operating Unit.
  • Drive the Operating Unit Finance Digitalization agenda with regard to System Economics (i.e. System Revenue dashboards, System Economic Tools) as well as integration of those with the other digitalized platforms (e.g. TFS, Hyperion) to support decision-making and productivity. Partner and leverage PS for the deployment and advancement of these tools
  • Secure System P&Ls and insights are purposefully provided and disseminated across all Functions and geographies.
• Responsible for stewarding existing economic models and to drive strategic thinking and roadmap on economic model optimization across all Africa OU bottlers and geographies:
  • Proactively steward and educate the broader organization on the existing economic models to maximize System’s and KO’s returns.
  • Provide thought leadership on the evolutions of existing value sharing models, with bottlers aiming to strike the best possible balance between harmonization and for fit-for-purpose models.
  • Lead discussions with anchor (multi-franchise) bottler on evolution of economic models or any other model with regard to new businesses.

Role Requirement

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics or related fields
• >10 years of leadership experience in either senior financial planning/commercial finance roles or in senior strategy roles.
• Extensive leadership and management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
• Experience in managing bottling relations
• Profound understanding of existing business and economic models.

Work Focus

• Support end-to-end business and financial planning cycles of the Operating Unit integrating of insights and foresights of System NSR, Value Chain and P&L.
• Holistic understanding of bottlers business performance inside the OU.
• Digitalization agenda: responsible for development, data integrity and reliability of System Economics Tool (SET) and projection models and integration with all other platforms (e.g. TFS).
• Stewardship and strategic thinking on economic models’ agenda across all bottlers and regions. Advisory and partnership in country specific business model negotiations with bottlers.

Travel requirements

• 20% of travel required

What You will Do For Us

Integrated Marketing Strategy End to End Plans

• Lead the integrated development of annual and multi-year creative brand strategies across all points of connection to deliver against overall category vision, business objectives and financial targets
• Architect and align stakeholders to the integrated marketing strategy for brand or a portfolio of brands including supporting strategies for the base business and for innovations.
• Proactively collaborate with the brand teams to identify opportunities for brand growth outside of the annual IMX(integrated Marketing Experience) briefs. process and translate those opportunities into actionable strategies.
• Author and align key stakeholders to IMX briefs, lead agency briefings and identify innovative ways to measure the effectiveness of brand campaigns.
• Provide strategic thought-leadership throughout the IMX process: guide adherence to (and when needed, evolution of) the strategy among internal teams and external agency partners; identify opportunities to bring consumer research and data into the process; help develop measurement plans to evaluate and optimize campaigns; foster a culture of collaboration that continually challenges and builds the brand team’s collective thinking.
• Actively collaborate with the brand/category team to translate global/regional direction to ensure that the strategy is relevant to consumers, positions the brand for future growth and can ultimately inspire differentiated marketing communications.

Development of Content

• Author and align key stakeholders to Integrated Marketing Experience (IMX) briefs.
• Lead agency briefings for Consumer and Shopper content and identify innovative ways to measure the effectiveness of brand campaigns.
• Provide guide adherence throughout the Integrated Marketing Experience process: (and when needed, evolution of) the strategy among internal teams and external agency partners; identify opportunities to bring consumer research and data into the process.
• Help develop measurement plans to evaluate and optimize campaigns; foster a culture of collaboration that continually challenges and builds the brand team’s collective thinking.
• Actively collaborate with the brand/category team to translate global/regional direction to Africa Operating Unit (where applicable) and to ensure that the strategy is relevant to consumers
• Positions the brand for future growth and can ultimately inspire differentiated marketing communications.

Best Practice / Insight

• Connected to industry insight, research and best practice.

Role Requirement

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required.
• Related Work Experience: 7+years of experience working in a strategic marketing capacity; experience working at and with world-class creative agencies and track record of inspiring big (ideally award-winning) creative thinking a plus.
• Ability to lay the strategic foundation needed to spark, evaluate, measure and optimize creative ideas that comprise a brand’s annual marketing efforts in a way that delivers business growth and consumer value.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Articulate complex ideas in a clear, compelling manner
• Translate consumer and cultural research/data, business objectives and diverse perspectives into actionable marketing strategies
• Ability to develop relationships with agencies and ensure alignment on business agenda.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to tailor communications to audience.
• Ability to coordinate & integrate full details (calendars, resources, metrics) of local activation with agency partners & internal stakeholders.
• Ability to identify needs for campaign localization or customization as necessary within the defined strategy and execution of these transcriptions' with agency partners.

Skills

• Analytical Thinking, Brand Architecture, Brand Positioning, Channel Management, Competitive Assessments, Consumer Segmentation, Creative Process, Digital Media Strategy, Group Problem Solving, Leadership, Marketing Strategies, Media Planning, Quantitative Research, Social Media Strategies, SWOT Analysis

Skills:

• Creative Strategies; Integrated Marketing; Campaign Development; Brand Strategy

Key Purpose Statement

The primary role of the Technician Cold Drink Equipment is to provide repair and maintenance of bottle coolers.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    

Productivity/Artisan Utilization

• Backlog(Pending work) > 5% of repair request
• Average of 4 cooler repairs per day
• Utilize 50% time on Actual repairs.(Value adding activity)

Efficiency

• Mean Time To Repair>60Hours
• Repeat repairs >2%
• Mean Time Before Failure < 2 years
• 100% RCA on repeat repairs

Cost Optimisation

• Zero cost on Assets due to negligence
• Repair cost/cooler= or >1,800 Kes
• Cost to Serve=or >PY

SHEQ & System compliance

• Achieve 100% in 3S audit in your specific Area
• 100% adherence to procedures & processes_ Zero Audit finding
• Customer complains> Zero
• Safety score-100%

Skills, Experience & Education    

Experience

• Minimum work experience of 2 years on bottle coolers.

Education

• Minimum requirement: Diploma in Refrigeration and air conditioning / Certificate in refrigeration /Mechanical Engineering (Refrigeration Option).

What You will Do:

• Responsible to generate insights and scenario planning in the areas of System NSR, Value Chain and P&L in service of the Operating Unit’s performance management and decision-making processes. Partner with senior leaders, Planning, Competitive Analysis and Insights Lead as well as Business Insights Lead and FP&A Lead to manage the financial quantification of Long-Range Plan, Annual Business Plan, Monthly Rolling Estimates grounded and integrated in the overall Business Planning at the Operating Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic and operational actions, including:
  • Coordinate with Business Insights and FP&A leads to prepare and provide local business plan insights assumptions for Long Range Plans, Annual Business Plans and Rolling Estimates.
  • Financial forecasting: analyze forecasts, develop and discuss insights with stakeholders, and plan takeaways for System NSR and System P&L.
  • Actively involved and contribute (co-lead) to the Operating Unit Monthly/Quarterly Performance review routines with franchises, Operating Unit Leadership Team and Center.
  • Comprehend and leverage bottler financials implications as a result of Scenario Planning Modelling, contingency, what if? To drive decisions.
• Responsible for stewardship and optimization of information in the areas of System Value Chain, P&L and Scenario Planning within the OU, including:
  • Design and implement information sharing protocols with all bottlers in the Operating Unit.
  • Drive the Operating Unit Finance Digitalization agenda with regard to System Economics (i.e. System Revenue dashboards, System Economic Tools) as well as integration of those with the other digitalized platforms (e.g. TFS, Hyperion) to support decision-making and productivity. Partner and leverage PS for the deployment and advancement of these tools
  • Secure System P&Ls and insights are purposefully provided and disseminated across all Functions and geographies.
• Responsible for stewarding existing economic models and to drive strategic thinking and roadmap on economic model optimization across all Africa OU bottlers and geographies:
  • Proactively steward and educate the broader organization on the existing economic models to maximize System’s and KO’s returns.
  • Provide thought leadership on the evolutions of existing value sharing models, with bottlers aiming to strike the best possible balance between harmonization and for fit-for-purpose models.
  • Lead discussions with anchor (multi-franchise) bottler on evolution of economic models or any other model with regard to new businesses.

Role Requirement

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics or related fields
• >10 years of leadership experience in either senior financial planning/commercial finance roles or in senior strategy roles.
• Extensive leadership and management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
• Experience in managing bottling relations
• Profound understanding of existing business and economic models.

Work Focus

• Support end-to-end business and financial planning cycles of the Operating Unit integrating of insights and foresights of System NSR, Value Chain and P&L.
• Holistic understanding of bottlers business performance inside the OU.
• Digitalization agenda: responsible for development, data integrity and reliability of System Economics Tool (SET) and projection models and integration with all other platforms (e.g. TFS).
• Stewardship and strategic thinking on economic models’ agenda across all bottlers and regions. Advisory and partnership in country specific business model negotiations with bottlers.

Travel requirements

• 20% of travel required

What We’ll Do For You

• Empower your Career: Join a team where you can lead critical financial operations, offering ample opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.
• Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you’ve got the tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions.
• Global Reach: We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry.

Position Overview:

• This role supports the Franchise Unit Leader, in developing our channel commercial execution growth pillars in Distributor + Wholesale management, On Premise HORECA (hotel, restaurant and café) Channel Management and provide the bottler with thought leadership on distributor model implementation based on global best practices

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Develop impactful and forward-thinking insights for operating unit, customer, and category-level digital business performance and opportunities, including industry/economic analysis, trend identification and impact sizing, and ad-hoc analysis.
• Manipulate and analyze large data sets to distill actionable insights from data and convey findings to executive audiences
• Create effective, scalable, and easy-to-understand reporting solutions, ensuring digital is well integrated into enterprise decision-making and performance management.
• Partner with Platform Services to develop and automate reports, iteratively building and prototyping dashboards to provide insights at scale and support monthly and quarterly performance management routines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional insights and analytics teams, Global, and Platform Services to develop a vision and roadmap for insights and analytics
• Works closely with our bottling partners to activate in-market initiatives to experiment and learn how segmentation solutions can drive incremental business growth. 
• Collaborates with the strategy and insights community on linking consumer segmentation with market segmentation efforts to maximize efforts. 
• Builds an understanding of the channel and customer business model, needs and expectations and assess our opportunity to connect with these for un-parallel value creation  
• Develops an investment plan against identified strategic imperatives with financial analysis, breakeven and ROI estimations. 
• Collaborates and drives buy-in with the bottling team on the strategic imperatives and required investment plans, with aligned milestones and KPIs, as well as investment sharing arrangements. 
• Leads the development and implementation of specific incidence & frequency driving programs. 
• Leads key channel specific shopper/customer insight development to build a strong insights and analytics base for channel planning and execution 
• Drives the development of business case, and the launch of region-specific new product/package launches, new off-take driving programs, as well as ensures the successful execution of national innovation projects.

Qualification & Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Finance, or related field required 
• 10+ years of experience in marketing, product marketing, analytics, and business intelligence.
• Experience manipulating large datasets and generating insights using SQL, Alteryx, Google Analytics, etc.
• Visualization expertise in tools like Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.
• Experience in a cross-functional or highly matrixed organization 
• Experience having owned/shaped/led growth and marketing strategy for global product line. 
• Deep marketing expertise in market & customer insights, segmentation, product commercialization and branding 
• Ability to motivate and work well with diverse, global, and cross functional teams.  
• Candidate must have a proven track record of delivering results through leadership and growth behaviors and strategy building experience.

Key Purpose Statement

The primary role of the process operator is the operations of the process area according to work instructions, execution of destructive or non-destructive quality checks, and carrying out of autonomous maintenance. The process operator has a primary focus on the quality control activities of the team.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Operation and Process Control

• Operating in the process area according to the work instructions and adhering to usage standards.
• Carrying out the required quality checks as described in the quality control and analysis work practice.
• Recording waste on the appropriate documentation or information systems, and reviewing waste trends to identify and resolving problems or opportunities timeously.
• Constantly reviewing process performance against target, and completing all short interval control documentation.
• Resolving out of control situations.
• Responding rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that result in stoppages. Appropriate problem solving approaches, as detailed in the problem solving work practice must be followed.
• Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 5s principles and following safe work practices.
• Identifying and correcting unsafe work practices.
• Carrying out flavour and size changeovers according to the work instructions.
• Assisting fellow team members in the execution of their tasks.

Maintenance of Plant and Equipment

• Carrying out deep cleaning, lubrication and inspection of machines according to the work instructions, and following the schedules supplied by the maintenance planner.
• Carrying out autonomous maintenance activities according to the work instructions, and following the maintenance schedule.
• Conducting breakdown maintenance tasks.
• Supporting the process artisan in carrying out maintenance on shift.

Quality Control and Analysis

• Carrying out quality checks and analysis as per the quality procedures.
• Recording the results of quality checks on the relevant documentation or information system. 
• Calibrating required quality control equipment according to work instruction and requesting assistance from the core lab where required.
• Conducting trends analysis on quality data to identify problems and opportunities timeously.
• Identifying and correcting identified quality problems using the appropriate techniques.

Communication

• Communicate effectively in the work place.
• Actively participating in shift meetings, asking questions and contributing suggestions.
• Making use of the gap list to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.
• Fully understanding the team goals and participating in team goal review sessions.
• Making use of relevant communication media e.g. shift handover books to stay informed and inform others of issues.

Problem Solving

• Applying the appropriate situational problem solving techniques e.g. 5Why, quick fix routines, OPL’s, one point lessons etc. to identify and correct the problem.
• Where the process operator is unable to resolve the problem, involve fellow team members or escalate to the team leader or process artisan if necessary.
• Providing information for and participate in situational and systemic problem solving as required.
• Where problems have been resolved, verifying that the problems have been eliminated.

Continuous Improvement

• Using run, control charts and trend analysis to identify sources of waste and variation in the process.
• Using short stop analysis, pareto charts and other tools, seeking to identify opportunities to simplify activities.
• Where improvement opportunities have been identified, these must be recorded on the team gap list and involve other team members in evaluating opportunities and call in specialist resources to assist if required.

Skills, Experience & Education    

Qualifications

Minimum Requirement

• Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering.

Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in FMCG industry

Knowledge

• All aspects of packaging operations and process controls 

General    

Competencies

• Ability to be a creative roblem solver
• Innovative
• Ability to work in teams
• Understanding of application of WCM foundational practices
• Troubleshooting skills
• Quality control practices and principles
• Bottling principles and processes
• Product handling knowledge
• Computer knowledge
• Understanding of SHE policies and procedures

What You will Do

• Creative Strategy Lead will focus primarily on developing the creative strategy for the respective category.
• Responsible for the creation and delivery of high-quality strategy, idea and concepts (and final execution elements for ‘Hero’ content) of the brand’s plan. The role is responsible for the preparation of the final recommendations presented for decision at each stage of Creative content approval.
• Leading the creative strategy and development cross marketing sub-functions (including but not limited to Design, Connections, Consumer & Shopper Engagement, Digital, Media)
• Work with counterparts in other Operating Units to help develop and execute a cohesive brand/category Creative Strategy
• The Creative Strategist is the Leader of the full Category Content team and is responsible for thought leadership and capability building across the Operating Units Category team in all aspects of Content development.
• Authoring and aligning key stakeholders to Integrated Marketing Experience briefs; leading agency briefings and identifying innovative ways to measure the effectiveness of brand campaigns.
• Building the storytelling of the brand, ensuring consistency and strategic continuity through various forms of content amplified at multiple connection points
• Translating and amplifying the Global Core Creative Ideas for Global and regional (where not lead Operating unit) brands into contemporary communications, that mobilize the Coca-cola system, positions the brand for future growth and excite consumers to build Brand Love ( i.e. Equity) and Brand Value (Transactions, Weekly+ Consumers, Baskets etc)
• Develop exciting/powerful Core Creative Ideas for Regional Brands (as Lead Operating unit) and local brands, anchored on consumer insight
• Ensuring that all expressions of the brand are in consistence with the Brand Essence and Architecture
• Relentlessly challenging for more innovative brand experiences
• Working with the respective Operating Units Brand Team/s to develop a vision and growth strategy for the respective brand / platform; expected to provide input on investment recommendations
• Working with counterparts in other Operating Units to help develop and execute cohesive brand/category Creative Strategy
• Working with Operating Unit Human Insights Team to define the killer insights that lead to the most powerful Creative Strategies

Role Requirement

• Bachelors Degree
• +10 years of marketing and leadership experience in a creative strategy role
• Experience working in cross-functional and cross-geographical teams is preferred
• Agency experience is an added advantage
• Proven ability to communicate both verbally and in written form in a way that engages and inspires key internal and external stakeholders including agency partners.
• Good understanding of consumer, cultural trends, current and future business needs
• Ability to lead overall Integrated Marketing Experience / Communication strategies.
• Ability to collaborate and create a ‘network’ across disciplines to open new, innovative spaces for brand growth based on consumer insights, cultural trends and current and future business needs.
• Excellent people leadership skills, particularly the ability to coach and develop others and create a cohesive, focused team
• Ability to manage complex timelines and manage/influence multiple stakeholders
• Ability to manage Direct Marketing Expense resources for maximum efficiencies and return on investment