Partner with Franchise Senior Finance Director and Cluster Senior Director Operations to manage all Cluster and/or Operational /Customer activities to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:

Responsible for managing relationship with Bottling Partners and leading and influencing decisions on investments, financials support, value sharing models, pricing strategies, new product launches and system economics

Support the Senior Director Operations and team in defining the Franchise Long Range Plans, Business Plans as well as managing day to day operations

Responsible for end-to-end PL management of the cluster including preparing, analyzing and delivering financial forecasts and results

Gain insights and brainstorm with customers/Bottlers on business issues; Prepare & support internal stakeholders on on-going negotiations

Implement Africa Operating Unit (OU) and Franchise resource allocation strategy

Set spends objectives and requirements on resource allocation for the cluster (joint planning/tracking with operations team and bottling partners)

Quantitative and qualitative Bottler/Customer info

Manage all Business Models and Margins within the Cluster, including:

Strategic thinking on business models optimization and system top line growth

Incidence Pricing Calibrations

Develop, implement Margin optimization strategy across the entire value chain

Bring margins discipline to operational business decisions

Optimization of current value chain

Set, track and be accountable for margins objectives

Leverage the network and execute locally OU margin strategy

Support Mergers & Acquisitions and Revenue growth Management

Main contact point for M&A analysis and assessment for the cluster

Lead the financial implementation of new business models where applicable

Main point of contact for legal/Tax/Treasury/M&A

Support Financially all RGM initiatives

Determine pricing strategy and objectives

Provide Financial input into new product / service development process

Working Capital and Cash Management for the cluster

Knowledge & Experience

Minimum 8-10 years of leadership experience in senior financial planning or commercial finance 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