Senior Director, Commercial Insights & Planning

Job Description Summary:

At The Coca‑Cola Company, our vision for global growth starts with clear insight and disciplined financial leadership. The Global Energy business represents one of the growing beverage portfolios across our system, and this role shapes how we anticipate consumer trends, allocate capital, and create value for partners worldwide.

The Senior Director, Strategic Finance serves as lead business partner to the Global Energy leadership team, driving financial planning, strategic insight, and enterprise decision support. This is a high‑impact position that blends commercial acumen, analytical depth, and cross‑functional collaboration—requiring the ability to synthesize complex market information into actionable growth strategies that strengthen Coca‑Cola’s global Energy portfolio.

What You'll Do for US

• Leverage strong business acumen to assess performance trends, consumer dynamics, market conditions, and competitive activity, translating insights into growth opportunities, risk mitigation strategies, and recommendations that enhance Energy Drinks’ business performance and capture opportunities for the system

• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to the Global Energy leadership team, providing strategic, commercial and financial guidance and thought leadership to drive sustainable growth and long-term value creation.
• Deliver advanced strategic, commercial and financial analysis along with strategic problem-solving by evaluating business scenarios and developing actionable recommendations that support informed decision-making.
• Influence senior cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, including Vice President and C-suite leaders, to drive strategic business outcomes.

• Orchestrate complex, high-stakes stakeholder engagement across Monster Energy Company leadership, TCCC senior leadership executives, Operating Units, bottling partners, and global finance teams; establish, establishing effective governance and engagement routines to align priorities and accelerate decisions.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams across spanning strategy, consumer and industry insights, marketing, customer and commercial teams, legal, data governance, and FP&A, translating & integrating diverse perspectives and market-level inputs into enterprise-wide recommendations and execution plans.

• Lead core financial planning processes, including Annual Business Plan (ABP) and Long-Range Planning (LRP) cycles, ensuring accurate, timely, and insightful reporting of business performance, forecasts, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.

• Drive transformation through automation, advanced analytics, and AI-powered tools delivering quicker, sharper decision support for leadership.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Business; MBA strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in strategic planning, commercial business operations, and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) to support growth initiatives and drive business performance.
• Expertise in strategic finance and commercial modeling, emphasizing revenue growth and value creation.
• Strong organizational and planning abilities, teamwork, and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and engage effectively with cross functional partners and multiple levels of leadership.

• Ability to navigate a complex global matrix organization, influencing VPs and C‑suite leaders to deliver shared outcomes..
• Advanced capability in financial storytelling and executive communication, simplifying complex data into clear insights.

• Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholders and running governance routines across a complex global matrixed ecosystem, including business-unit and C-suite leaders, Operating Units, bottling partners, and external strategic partners.
• Proven ability to lead interdependent cross-functional workstreams across geographies—connecting finance, strategy, insights, marketing, customer and commercial teams, legal, and data governance—to resolve ambiguity and deliver shared business outcomes.

• Demonstrated resilience working in highly ambiguous environments, balancing strategic priorities with real-time business needs.      
• Growth mindset with strong learning agility, adaptability, and continuous improvement orientation.
• Experience applying digital and AI‑powered analytical tools to enhance forecasting and insight generation

 KEY KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Mastery of (REQUIRED)

1.      Strategic finance and commercial acumen focused on value creation

2.      End- to- end business understanding of business strategy, commercial models, market dynamics, and financial value drivers

3.      Advanced analytical capability to translate complex financial, consumer, market, and competitive data into actionable insights and compelling business narratives

4.      Stakeholder leadership and influence across senior executives, global teams, Operating Units, bottling partners, and external partners—without reliance on direct authority

5.      Executive-level written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complexity and land clear recommendations

6.      Strong knowledge of the consumer-Consumer products value chain, including brand, customer, route-to-market, bottling, and system economics

What We’ll Do for You

• Position you at the strategic center of Coca‑Cola’s global beverage innovation and growth portfolio.
• Equip you with advanced decision‑support tools and global partnerships spanning markets and categories.
• Enable you to expand your strategic finance influence by solving real‑time challenges in dynamic, high‑growth regions.
• Provide a collaborative, agile environment that values curiosity, leadership, and continuous learning.

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

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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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