Country Manager Czech & Slovakia Prague, Praha

Country Manager Czech & Slovakia

This leadership role is responsible for aligning Company & Bottlers under a common destination, growth plan and end-end local execution plan.
**What You’ll Do for Us**:
- Lead the Czech & Slovak Franchise Operations with full end-end responsibility including setting the short/long term destination, growth ambition, portfolio management, RGM & commercial execution, internal & external stakeholder management.
- Deliver Czech & Slovak Business Plan commitments - lead annual business planning together with the bottler (CCEP), manage ongoing business, decide on corrective actions to ensure results are delivered
- Manage the 50/50 and local brands’ P&L
- Deliver the commercial development agenda, focus on “big wins” which offer transformational change to the financial performance of the system - RGM, BPPO, Shopper Marketing
- Lead the Country Operations team leverage the multi-functional resources in the network
- Clearly and consistently understand the anatomy of our business and the competition to provide execution support to Bottler senior management and strengthen KO-Bottler partnership within the country.
- Primary responsible for improving competitive position at the designated countries.
- Responsible for P&L for the designated country/territory
- Drives the execution of the strategic agenda integrating System partners and the network around a holistic strategy and plan
- Governs system business routines (Performance weekly & quarterly, financial, Quality, CIF etc.) around key business indicators to assess evolution and adjust plans
- Support external stakeholder management with representation of the company where relevant.
**Qualifications & Requirements**:
- 15 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy related areas
- Proven trajectory as leader of leaders and influencing a senior leadership team
- People manager with excellent leadership capability, able to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
- Must have robust understanding of system dynamics, business strategy, portfolio management and end-end execution
- Must be a master in the extraction of actionable commercial insights and development of competitive strategies and initiatives
- Have solid risk management and contingency planning skills
- Lead end to end alignment of country integrated execution plan process with Bottling partners
- Capture and network best practices, import and export good ideas
- Role model the “Leadership in the Network” definition
- Multiple top-level interactions with senior management team members of KO system
- Strong negotiation, influence and communication skills to align strategies as well as build value-based relationships through numerous sensitive situations (typically with bottler) are essential
- Ability to lead cross functional teams with non-hierarchical networks with strong collaboration and communication skills
**Travel requirements**:
- 10% of travel required
**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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