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Welcome to Coca-Cola South Africa, the company that does the most for community upliftment and is the home of South Africa’s favourite brand. It is the mission of TheCoca-Cola Company to refresh the world, inspire moments of optimism and happiness, create value and make a difference. Here y… read moreou’ll find everything you want to know about the Coca-Cola business in our country, from our bottling partners and brands, to our leadership and sustainability programmes. South Africa is the largest Coca-Cola market in Africa and consistently ranks among the best performing countries in the world of Coca-Cola. This impressive position is made possible by the hard work and commitment of our four bottlers, our canning operation as well as our employees, whose main vision is to benefit and refresh the people of South Africa. We’re proud to be a business unit of the Coca-Cola Eurasia and Africa Group, which is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. TheCoca-Cola Company has operations in more than 200 countries around the world and serves its beverages at a rate of 1.8 billion every day. Working together with our bottling partners, we work to consistently deliver value to our customers—the grocers, retailers, vendors, spazas and tuck shop owners—across South Africa. TheCoca-Cola Company owns the brands, and our bottling partners produce, package, distribute and merchandise our products worldwide. In South Africa, The Coca-Cola System (our Company and bottling partners) employs approximately 9,000 employees and has 15 facilities. Learn more about our bottling system.
What you will Do:
Plan, lead and support the implementation of the Experience Loop process, within the framework of Brave & Boundless model, for all End to End plans for the respective categories
Ensures that Projects are being delivered on time and in full and according to the objectives and the tracking system in place
Plan, coordinate and lead Category Extended team meetings, all the year, from planning to full execution of End to End plans
Plan for all the Fusion point meetings, Decision point meetings with the Senior End to End PMO and work collaboratively with CETs to make the plans land as per the dates agreed
Load End to End plans into WF(Work front) as per the Experience Loop
Coordinate the Innovation launches as part of the E2E plans where applicable (eg SAC)
Work as a PMO community of practice, to share best practices, learn from the PMO network and come up with new and agile ways of working as PMOs for their respective categories.
Leverage Workfront for all the E2E plans [loading all plans in WF with launch dates, brief types, Direct Marketing Expenses; repository of documentation in WF for each E2E plan; monitor and manage the risks via WF with regards to timelines, resources etc]
Project Leadership & Execution
Provide cross functional project team leadership across key initiatives – setting the agenda, be empowered
Communicate clear project vision and engage CETS( Category Extended teams )to deliver against this.
Ensure that key project stakeholders are aligned with plans and goals and embrace change.
Anticipate challenges and communicate and collaborate in an efficient manner in meetings with CETs including with WPP network
Relationship Management
Managing and collaborate with the business across all facets to apply resources to brand portfolio
Inspiring internal and external partners to deliver clear competitive advantage and maintain alignment with projects & plans (Global network, WPP network)
Develop feedback loops to build in information for process change and improvements
Supervisory Responsibilities
Direct guidance to a group of many project managers across the Region, including:
Explanation of roles and responsibilities as project managers and expected outcomes
Periodic coaching
Coordination of necessary training (i.e. innovation, project management skills)
Direct guidance with the commercialization team in Technical function as they contribute to the Innovation Process
Direct guidance with the marketing and commercial team as they contribute to the End-to-End stage gate process (Xp loop)
Role Requirement
5years of experience in Marketing/Business Development
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Marketing or Social Sciences. MBA preferred
Experience in Marketing projects is highly desirable
Project Management skills
Ability to collaborate with different stakeholders
FMCG experience is an added advantage
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