Specialist Global Marketing Procurement: Data

The Sourcing Specialist supports data sourcing initiatives for The Coca-Cola Company as part of the Global Marketing Procurement Organization. The role works closely with the marketing, public affairs & communications and finance organizations

The role is designed to ensure all the day-to-day activities and pre-work on main contracts are well managed, ensure negotiations are well prepared and structured and supplier performance is delivering upon marketing needs. They may own responsibility for some smaller contract and ensures that capability managers are well supported.

Organizational Impact:

- Remit is global ensuring support for brands and Operating Units
- Manage projects or processes and operational activities and as an individual contributor acts as an experienced professional working independently with guidance in complex situations
- Work closely with agency partners and business partners
- Represent the function of marketing procurement internally and externally to support a progressive, modern and dynamic approach to business.

Innovation & Complexity
- Supports improvements of processes, systems or products to optimize performance
- Solve problems by identifying the root cause and modifying solutions applied to similar
- Able to work well across multi-functions and as part of a global team
- Competent and comfortable with data and able to represent this in a way that is clearly understood in the business and drives action

Communication & Influence
- Communicates with contacts typically within agency partners, procurement and marketing on matters that require consolidating, explaining and interpreting information in order to reach agreement
- Works to justify and gain cooperation of other parties on practices, policies and activities
- Requires ability to communicate with marketers easily
- Will be required to partner with other capability specialists

Behaviors
- Able to work across functions and teams supporting one Coca-Cola Company, supporting the bigger picture at all times
- High attention to detail and collaboration to achieve results
- Open minded and looking to continuously learn and adapt
- Able to constructively build robust and trusted relationships
- Positive mindset, curious, hungry to learn and grow and develop Self & Others
- Able to work at pace and manage several projects simultaneously

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements
- Strong insight into how the research and digital commerce industry works and key players
- Strong commercial, relationship building, negotiation, and procurement knowledge
- Able to adhere to clear working processes, scopes of work ensuring perfect delivery
- Able to translate business requirements into implementation plans
- Able to work as part of a virtual global team to collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries to deliver better business results and share best practices
- Knowledge of strategic sourcing strategies to ensure that formal supplier agreements activate the elements of the sourcing strategy and support performance standards
- Knowledge of the category, procurement, industry and business best practices to ensure effective procurement solutions
- Run cost models, analysis, reports and all supplier performance management
- Able to read, edit and interpret contractual documentation and manage contract performance
- Minimum: 7+ years of work experience in a commercial marketing or procurement or relevant related field
- Knowledge of technical aspects of marketing is highly preferred
- Global work experience, cross functional teams, strong influencing skills and working across multi projects

**Skills**

Corporate Purchasing; Materials Resource Planning; Database Management; Customer Service; Food And Beverage (F&B); Contracts; Logility; Microsoft Office; Mathematics; Communication; Analytical Techniques; APICS Certification; Procurements; Negotiation; Manufacturing Process Controls; Cost Analysis; Global SAP
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