Senior Director, Strategic Insights – 9 months assignment in Brussels, Belgium

Opening Paragraph:

A part of the Coca-Cola Europe-wide Strategy team, the Strategic Insights & Analysis team is in charge of bringing a holistic understanding of our business environment to the European organization, by providing a relevant and comprehensive set of insights. We contribute to identifying and prioritizing opportunities for growth as well as refining our strategies, both leveraging existing datasets and creating new research. The key focus areas of the team are strategic planning, competitive intelligence, horizon scanning, shopper research, analytics, innovative tools and methodologies, support to cross-functional strategic projects, and capability building. We work in close collaboration with multiple teams, including Human Insights, in-market Strategy teams, Commercial teams, Finance, Platform Services, etc. as well as our European bottlers.

Key responsibilities for the role:

Connecting insights to support the Europe Strategy leads in framing and aligning on prioritization of key issues and opportunities

• Lead the creation of actionable insights leveraging multiple sources of information to nurture a compelling business strategy within Europe.

• Identify opportunities to close knowledge gaps/improve insights and then design and supervise the execution of ad-hoc research projects or analysis to address these gaps.

• Support the development of LRP and ABP by providing key insights relevant for the region.

• Act as the business partner to the relevant Coca-Cola bottler teams to ensure relevant alignment on data, insights and opportunities.

• Participate in Global, European or market-level cross-functional projects, being the voice of strategic insights.

Building future insight capabilities

• Lead the evolution of our research capabilities and insights tools required for the future, in connection with global expert teams.

• Identify opportunities to leverage new digital tools and AI in the development of insights, and supervise the implementation of new solutions.

Communicating with key stakeholders

• Influence top management decisions through relevant insights and participation in projects

• Collaborate with Europe Strategy community, helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize the strategy, identifying local insights relevant for the whole region and driving best practices for insight building.

Team development and coaching

• Lead a team of professionals in charge of delivering insights and conducting ad hoc research

• Coach team members on daily work as well as professional development

• Maintain visibility on a pipeline of future talent for the team

Qualifications & Requirements :

• Essential experience: experience in Strategy, Market Research and Analytics related areas.

• Proven trajectory as project leader, collaborating with and influencing multifunctional peers

• Experience with research agency or consulting a plus

• Experience leading a team a plus

Required skills:

• Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct analysis requirements.

• Strategic thinking around industry and competitive assessment.

• Storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories.

• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence to drive projects forward in a network environment and across the system.

• Influencing skills, ability to adapt to a variety of audiences

• Ability to effectively navigate ambiguity in an autonomous manner.

• Market research proficiency: qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

• Intermediate to advanced analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools.

• Strong analytical, data interpretation and synthesis skills to convert complex models and data into applied conclusions.

• Strong project management and agency management capabilities.

• Consumer and commercial insights experience.

• Facilitation skills and business acumen to drive better conversations into practical applications.

• Excellent oral and written English required, other European languages are a plus.

Desirable skills:

• Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition and evaluation).

• Experience in Digital/AI field.

• Bottling partners key data sources and recurring analysis methodologies.

Travel requirements:

• Up to 25% of travel required

Skills Problem Solving; Strategic Thinking; Human Insights; Storytelling; People Management

Pay Range Not Available

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.