Planning Director

A successful **Planning Director **is one who can efficiently manage and provide guidance and manage the Business Plan, Forecasting and Business Performance at the Operating Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:
**Focus, Scope, & Impact**:
**Responsible for coordination, management and execution of OU monthly and quarterly planning and performance management processes**

End to end monthly planning process: Proactively lead the cross-functional/region facilitation and development of monthly business review at the OU level

Providing management support across the OU regarding monthly processes in areas such as deep-dive analytics, objective setting, metrics tracking, leading team meetings, and preparing presentations

Effectively support leadership team on performance routines with Center incl. delivering quarterly deep dive document, monthly temperature council performance document with quality insights

Oversight of Volume Forecasting; develop and implement standard model for the OU

Analyze forecasts, develop and discuss insights with stakeholders, and plan takeaways

Report volume and system NSRs on a weekly basis for metric tracking

**Lead overall OU ABP process and deliverables through coordination among different functions**

Design, align and implement ABP process for the entire OU

Orchestra ABP process and give clear guidance to franchise and function teams in every milestone

Work closely with Franchise Units and functions to support the development and integration of OU annual business plan

Deliver OU ABP whitepaper and PPTs to Center

Support leadership team in ABP presentations and documents needed

**Lead industry estimate, market share target setting, regular tracking and outlook forecast at OU level with coordination with franchise unit and strategy team**

Lead annual industry estimate process, coordinate with franchise unit and strategy team to discuss, review and align industry/TCCC submission

Lead industry and TCCC forecast in LRP and ABP with coordination with franchise unit and strategy team; In charge of LRP redbook industry and market share submission

Establish effective process to track and review market share performance, generate insights, and facilitate discussions to drive action plans

Implement consistent approach across OU to forecast market share based on current performance and future outlook

**Monitor macroeconomics, external operating environment, and competitive landscape, and develop insights to be factored into strategic and business planning recommendations and action plans**

Macro and external operating environment: monitor on a regular basis and provide insights on trend, implications and recommendations

Monitor key competitor (NARTD/Non RTD) and key player (within the ecosystem) profile and intelligence to support strategy and business development

Profit Pool: Develop comprehensive competitor and industry profit pool by category and by channel to identify threats and opportunities to KO annually;

Compile profit pool evolution analysis to come up insights on category opportunity and competitor landscape and feed into strategic business planning

**Lead planning team** to drive insights that can add value to the business, build team capabilities, increase engagement and make sure the right development plan for each of team members **Support OU leadership, CFO and PACI lead on ad hoc requests**

**KeY SUCCESS PARAMETERS**

**Knowledge & Experience**
- >10 years of leadership experience in senior planning 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
- People manage experience and skills

**Work Focus**
- Role model the **“Leadership in the Network” **definition
- Provide holistic **understanding of business performance inside the OU**, including defining OU budget targets, operational metrics, and requirements by state/brand/channel, etc.
- ** Orchestrate end-to-end business planning **process for OU, working cross functionally inside the organization and coordinating with global office
- Use a **fact-based, analytic, strategic approach** to assist in creation of business plan, collaborating across OU and receiving approval from Group/Center
- Ensure strict compliance to both internal controls and statutory requirements, working closely with controls and compliance team, corporate audit, LEC and External Auditors

**Leadership Behaviours**
- Promote a strong two-way feedback culture; one built on trust, transparency, collaboration and accountability
- Step change our impact on System value creation to accelerate our Growth
- Develop a diverse and well-rounded team with broad business skills and understanding of our markets, bottlers and customers
- Focus on outcomes using the right processes, metrics and data
- Inflect