Location(s):

Denmark

City/Cities:

Hellerup

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

June 18, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

This leadership role is responsible for driving the growth strategy in the Danish market aligning Company & Bottlers towards the yearly growth plans and securing end-to-end market execution. 

 What You’ll Do for Us: 

Lead the Danish Franchise Operations with full end-end responsibility including setting, growth ambition, strategy development, portfolio management, RGM & commercial execution, internal & external stakeholder management. 

Deliver Danish (incl. Iceland) Business Plan commitments – lead annual business planning together with the bottler (Carlsberg), manage ongoing business, decide on corrective actions to ensure results are delivered. 

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 function 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 with Carlsberg   

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 in Norway & Iceland where relevant. 

  

Qualifications & Requirements:  

15 years of Business and/or functional experience in Operation/Strategy/Sales 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 

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Business Operations, Change Management, Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Financial Processing, People Management, Project Scheduling, Relationship Building, Six Sigma, Waterfall Model, Workflow Management

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.