Location(s):
JapanCity/Cities:
TokyoTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
December 5, 2025Shift:
Reduced Working Hours (Japan)Job Description Summary:
This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the Japan and South Korea Operating Unit (OU) landscape to provide Guidance on Where to Play & How to Win. This role focuses on Japan market and by partnering with senior leadership and across Functions in the organization as well as the Bottling Partners. This role supports the holistic Japan KO System to achieve continued and sustainable growth in the market. The role leverages robust data source to distill high-quality insights, anchored in facts and judgement to impact business results.What You'll Do for Us
- Localize the global strategy, defining where to play and how to win through integrated strategy in category & channel and identifying strategic opportunities, including whitespace opportunities and challenges.
- Analyze through various data sources how the business is performing against the Short as well as Mid/Long term Strategy within the market dynamics and offer course correction perspective and proposal to the System.
- Identify key business questions to be addressed to distill powerful insights for the business to tackle on System level.
- Input the key business Opportunity and Challenges into Mid/Long term strategy development process (LRP/Long Range Plan) from various lens of Macro/Industry/Competitive landscape.
- Drive comprehensive Competitive Intelligence of local industry and players to make timely inputs and facilitate robust decision making, wiring the OU together and connecting with the broader global TCCC network
- Act as an "in house" consultancy partner, structuring and leading ad-hoc cross-functional analysis or projects to drive the business on growth trajectory
- Explore and Build External connections to leverage opportunities through networks
- Confident leader who can influence across different functions in the OU (including Marketing, Franchise, Commercial, Finance, R&D, Technical, among others) as well as Bottling Partners
- Requires ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with senior leadership
- Requires ability to convince others within and outside of the organization to agree/ accept new concepts, practices, and approaches impacting sub-functional/ business strategy
Qualifications & Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in several Business Development roles, such as Strategy, Planning, Marketing, Insights, Consulting, among others
- Experience in growth planning/strategy as well as in execution, ideally in B2C but can be B2B if end product/service is consumer facing
- Business level verbal and written Japanese
- Can be on-site (Shibuya office) 60% of interactions
- Integrate multiple insights and complex issues through a broad and holistic approach
- Set the agenda of strategic direction for the business and lead to actionable solutions by collaborating with accountable functions
- Partners with senior leaders to orchestrate and wire the strategy and solution deployment, prioritizing efforts, influencing, aligning and engaging key stakeholders in timely manner
- Identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple countries into an OU-specific perspective without losing the power of local insights.
- Understands and effectively utilize the different sources of data and information required to drive choices and solutions to the business.
- Extensively analyzes problems to seek understanding of the root cause of the problems or to reach insight that leads to implication for action
- Has growth mindset, motivated to continually challenge oneself to learn and grow, and willingly take the team together
- Has the agility and resilience to operate in ambiguity and be okay to move ahead with assertiveness
What We Can Do For You:
- Career Development: The Coca-Cola Company offers a wide range of resources and programs to support your career development, including global learning programs and leadership development programs.
- Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation.
- Learning Culture: Access to resources such as LinkedIn Learning and management programs that give you the resources to continually develop your skills and knowledge.
Skills:
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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