Director, Global Strategy, Planning and Business Insights

Job Description Summary:

At The Coca-Cola Company, our ambition is to deliver top-quartile growth fueled by insight-driven strategy and disciplined planning. Achieving this requires seamless alignment between enterprise vision, operating plans, and performance management—anchored in actionable, data-driven insights.

As Director, Global Strategy, Planning and Business Insights, you will lead the coordination and execution of global strategic and annual business planning processes, while advancing how we synthesize data into strategies that shape the future. This highly visible role combines business leadership, advanced analytical capability, and enterprise influence—partnering across Operating Units, Global Categories, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Corporate leadership.

If you are a strategic thinker with outstanding business problem-solving skills, a builder of strong networked relationships, and an expert in storytelling with data, this is your opportunity to help define how Coca-Cola charts its growth path for the next decade.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Lead Enterprise Planning: Co-own the strategic and annual business planning cycles, ensuring enterprise goals align with growth priorities and operating plans.

• Drive Data-Backed Decision Making: Collect and synthesize data from multiple sources—including markets, consumers, competition, and financial performance—and translate into actionable insights and recommendations.

• Advance Analytics & Forecasting: Apply advanced analytics and modeling techniques (including predictive tools) to optimize planning, resource allocation, and performance outcomes.

• Performance Management: Manage monthly and quarterly review routines to track progress, identify gaps, and unlock new growth opportunities.

• Enable Strategic Projects: Support global initiatives by framing business questions, conducting analysis, and delivering insights to senior leadership to inform critical decisions.

• Strengthen Business Intelligence: Develop and manage enterprise-wide dashboards and BI frameworks that integrate competitive intelligence, financial analysis, and market trends into high-quality decision tools.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with global Marketing, Operations, Finance, Revenue Growth Management, and Supply Chain teams to align strategies, KPIs, and execution plans across a diverse geography.

• Knowledge Sharing & Consistency: Create and maintain strategic toolkits, reporting templates, and training materials to scale best practices across operating units and global functions.

• Industry Monitoring: Stay ahead of economic, regulatory, and competitive trends—bringing insights back to inform planning assumptions and scenario models.

• Stakeholder Communication: Deliver compelling, executive-ready presentations and strategy narratives through clear storytelling and visualizations that influence decisions at the highest level.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, or related field preferred.

• 8–10 years of relevant experience in Strategy Development, Enterprise Planning, Strategic Finance, or Commercial Roles; CPG or global experience highly preferred.

• Advanced proficiency in data interpretation, analytics, and financial modeling, with strong storytelling skills for executive audiences.

• Demonstrated leadership in planning large-scale strategy cycles and building integrated forecasts in complex, matrixed environments.

• Exceptional business acumen spanning multiple domains (finance, marketing, operations, growth planning).

• Solid grasp of macroeconomic, industry, and competitive frameworks for informing strategic decisions.

• Expertise in MS Excel, PowerPoint, BI visualization tools; curiosity for AI and machine learning application in analytics.

• Strength in project management, prioritization, and delivery under tight timelines.

• High-impact relationship-building skills with proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong EQ and IQ balance—able to navigate ambiguity, build trust, and mobilize cross-functional teams globally.

What We’ll Do for You

• Provide a platform for impacting enterprise growth priorities through strategy and insights that guide billion-dollar decisions.

• Enable direct collaboration with global senior leaders and access to strategic decision-making forums.

• Offer an opportunity to innovate enterprise planning frameworks using advanced analytics and digital tools.

• Foster continuous learning, exposure to multi-market complexity, and skill building in both strategic thinking and analytics.

All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (Form I-9) upon hire.

Skills: Business Insights, Data Analytics, Shareholder Management, Syndicated Research

Pay Range: United States of America: 164,000 USD - 193,000 USD

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

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.

Location(s): United States of America

City/Cities: Atlanta

Travel Required: 00% - 25%

Relocation Provided: Yes

Job Posting End Date: August 25, 2026

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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