The Coca-Cola Company Hiring for Sr. Manager, Finance – Innovation & Commercialization Job at Gurgaon Full Time

Sr. Manager, Finance – Innovation & Commercialization

Job Location – Gurgaon

Leading the design of a new process for ALL innovations including creating a new process and dashboard to monitor and monthly report on all innovations, core portfolio NPD, new created brands and any acquired brands across holistic measures. This role will then present the findings in a systematic way along with making recommendations to the INSWA OU Leadership Team on which innovations to accelerate, stop, re-work in a timely fashion. Leads the BU Finance Director, BU President, Franchise/Marketing/Technical teams as well the system bottlers in NPD decision making and portfolio management, to drive stronger top line growth and delivery of productivity targets.

What You’ll Do for Us

• To effectively develop, manage and lead the commercialization metrics on all new products launched and provide one stop visibility to the full BU Leadership team on performance status of the system whether that is the bottlers or the distributors / customers for non-bottling innovations. This includes collaborating with Ops on execution metrics, marketing on consumer metrics, technical on capacity / product challenges, and finance on the performance vs the business case
• Leads the thinking and influences the system on NPD performance, through a monthly system routine which involves presenting the key findings for all NPDs and then recommending the innovation strategy implications as a result as well as any short-term immediate actions that need to be taken either by the BU or on the botting / distributing / customer side
• Advising the BU on which innovations to accelerate, re-work or kill zombies and build this into the Long Terms Strategic Plan, Annual Business Plan and any immediate actions that need to be taken on NPD
• Business case evaluation – Evaluate financial/ commercial feasibility of all new products and projects / initiatives and collaborates with commercial, operations, R&D, supply chain and marketing teams to build value chains and optimization opportunities around NPD value chains
• Engages with bottling team to discuss value chains and business case financials for new products
• Finance Lead for new products stage gate process tracking key metrics like P&L, cash flow, investments & payback, system economics etc. for leadership team to aid decision making process
• Identify risks & opportunities and assist in the development and implementation of solutions in the areas of people, process, and technology as the organization continues to evolve and grow. Works with supply chain, operations and marketing team to support underwriting of any Raw/Packing material and bottlers risk
• Build the business plan for new products – volumes, costs, investments and
• Within the Company to feed information/data to Finance leadership on Business Performance and marketing insights.
• Within the Company- Interaction with Operation team for various business inputs to plan estimates for the Business and with Marketing functions for Brand plans and estimating brand contribution and various other departments for collaboration and collecting inputs for Business Planning.
• Outside the Company- With MEM team to drive the MEM process and Statutory Auditor for controls and compliances.
• Outside the Company -Bottlers & Marketing Agencies and Production agencies

Qualifications & Requirements:

• >8 years of leadership experience in senior commercial finance or planning roles
• Requires a deep understanding of the financials and system economics comprising the Suppliers, Co-packers, Toll Manufacturers, Bottlers, customers, marketing agencies, government and NGO’s through the lens of categories, packages, brands, and the competitive landscape. This is critical to allow effective management of the BU P&L
• Extensive management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
• Thought leadership & solutions mindset that appropriately balances both short term and long-term priorities
• Mastery of Commercial Finance, Knowledge and Insights, People Leadership, Influence & Communication and Strategic Thinking.
• Broad expertise in Risk Management, Agile ways of working, Enterprise-wide/ transversal initiatives, Portfolio Strategy and Flexibility

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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