Business Analyst at Coca-Cola Company

Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. Led by Coca-Cola, the world's most valuable brand, our Company's portfolio features 15 billion dollar brands including Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero, vitaminwater, Powerade, Minute Maid, Simply, Georgia and Del Valle. Globally, we are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coffees, and juices and juice drinks. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy our beverages at a rate of 1.7 billion servings a day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that reduce our environmental footprint, support active, healthy living, create a safe, inclusive work environment for our associates, and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. Together with our bottling partners, we rank among the world's top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 system employees.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

    The purpose of this job is to support the Franchise Strategy & Business Performance Manager to continuously evaluate the business model and system in a changing environment, innovating the current business model and supply chain to create differential advantage, creating and evaluating strategic options that stretch the enterprise beyond its boundaries, and help in making choices in its resource allocation to keep the enterprise fit and flexible to withstand expected/unexpected changes in the environment over a long period of time.

    This is accomplished by supporting the Business Planning process for the Franchise and ensuring alignment with key bottlers.

    Another fundamental expectation from the job is to support with ongoing evaluation, reporting and management of business outcomes in line with strategic direction and short-medium term objectives

    This is also accomplished by supporting key strategic projects which are usually multi functional and across the system

Key Duties/responsibilities

1. Support the Franchise Strategy & BP Manager in the development of short- and long-term business strategy for a business unit or department that are comprehensive, realistic and aligned with broader Company and business unit plans.
2. Develop and maintain partnerships with internal management stakeholders in order to provide insights on key business parameters and levers for growth that will facilitate and influence business decision-making.
3. Support the Franchise S & BP manager in the preparation of presentations as required - Business Plans, Strategy Plans, Mid-year and Quarterly Reviews, Operations Review, etc.
4. Work with the Franchise Strategy & Business Performance to plan quarterly business review meetings for the Division
5. Provide business analytics to enable the management team put together relevant project charters and/or business cases in order to secure resource commitments from Senior Management for the execution of planned initiatives.
6. Build and develop relationships with peers and others to exchange feedback on process issues, identify and/or solve problems, anticipate and assess business needs that will drive business results.
7. Participate in operating meetings (e.g., division and group planning meetings, individual strategy sessions) to gain an understanding of operating environment and business needs.
8. Rigorous submission of Franchise, Business Unit and Group reports, where applicable.
9. Manage market intelligence database e.g. macroeconomics indicators, external factors, competition, etc.

Financial/ Job Scope:

• Data / information accuracy
• Process Efficiency (Cycle times), Compliance with Charters of Authority based on internal audit,
• Policy / Procedure compliance,

 Organization Impact/ Influence:

• Extensive Strategic / Operational Interaction with
• Strategy & Business Planning Director and Franchise Strategy & Business Performance Manager
• Franchise Directors, Franchise Marketing, Franchise Operational Marketing and Franchise Financial Services Manager
• Business Unit Performance Management Function – Performance reporting
• Group Reporting (As applicable)
• Information Systems – systems maintenance

External Interaction with:

• Bottlers – Data collection / information verification
• Service Providers – Systems maintenance

 Nature and Purpose of the Interaction:

•      Scheduled, regular and ad-hoc contact

Related Job Requirements/ Qualifications:

Technical Skills:

1.  Analytics and data manipulation
2.  Statistical reporting (numerical and written)
3.  Attention to detail
4.  Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel, Power-Point, Word
5.  Analytical thinking and effective communication and influencing skills

Generic Competencies: Refer to Competency Directory and Provide between 3 – 7 of the highest priority competencies

• Understanding the Business
• Driving Internal Customer and Consumer Value
• Attention to detail
• Monitoring information
• Communicating effectively
• Writing effectively
• Planning and organizing
• Building value based relationships / Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexibility and initiative

 Required Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in FMCG environment
• Ideal candidate is one who has worked as a Sales Analyst within the System.
• Ability to work in a fluid organization setting where the focus is the initiative (work); ability to support multiple work streams at the same time.

 Educational Requirements

• B.Sc. Degree in Business Administration / Economics / Statistics / Finance
• Fluent English language ability

 Cultural Diversity:

• Responsibility and Interaction with:
• Local Franchise Office Associates and Leadership teams
• West Africa: English as primary language & French advantageous,

 Analysis:

• Getting to know what exactly are the information requirements in the business units
• Establishing credible sources of information
• Getting the information itself
• Understanding and use of several forecasting tools are critical
• Responsibility for ensuring that the Company's ethics, standards and policies are at all times maintained within the field of responsibility
• Information Accuracy and sensitivity to critical business information

 Judgement and Decision Making:

• Joint accountability in the implementation and completion of key strategic projects.

 Travel Requirements

•  On an ad-hoc basis

Application Closing Date

Not Stated.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:

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