Senior Manager Strategic Planning

Swire Coca-Cola is seeking a strategic and commercially minded planning professional to join our Strategy & Planning team. You will drive enterprise-level business planning, support strategy formulation, and provide analytical rigour that enables the General Manager, Strategy & Planning and Chief Strategy & Commercial Officer to shape enterprise strategy. You will also translate priorities into actionable plans, and develop performance frameworks and decision-ready recommendations. Using data, market intelligence and business insights, you will assess opportunities and risks, support strategic initiatives, and facilitate our Enterprise Risk Management framework. This role suits an experienced professional with strategic thinking, analytical rigour, commercial judgement, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across functions and markets to deliver long-term value. Key Responsibilities: Business Planning Cycle Orchestration

• Lead and co-own Swire Coca-Cola's enterprise-wide business planning cycle in partnership with Finance, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans, aligned investments, and measurable business outcomes.
• Drive the planning governance framework, including annual planning calendars, milestones, quality standards, and executive review processes, while coordinating strategy reviews, capital expenditure prioritisation, budgeting guidance, and leadership planning forums.
• Develop, manage, and refine enterprise-wide planning templates and methodologies in partnership with cross-functional teams to drive consistency, alignment, and planning effectiveness.
• Partner with market and functional leaders to consolidate cross-functional and cross-market planning inputs, ensuring alignment, consistency, and strategic coherence across the organisation. Strategy Analytical Leadership
• Lead strategic analysis and insight generation to support annual strategy refreshes, leadership forums, and enterprise decision-making, leveraging data, market intelligence, competitive assessments, and external benchmarking to identify business opportunities, risks, and priorities.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, strategic narratives, key insights, and decision-support materials that enable senior leadership to evaluate strategic options and make informed business decisions. Financial Modelling Support
• Collaborate with Finance and the Value Creation & Assurance team to support long-term planning, contribute strategic assumptions and scenario inputs, validate business planning assumptions, and assess the financial realism of forecasts and business plans.
• Leverage external market intelligence, macro trends, industry reports, competitive insights, and Coca-Cola system data to strengthen forecasting, challenge assumptions, and support robust strategic planning. Enterprise Risk Management Facilitation
• Lead the facilitation and continuous enhancement of Swire Coca-Cola's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework, ensuring risk considerations are embedded into strategy development, business planning, and enterprise decision-making.
• Manage the Global Corporate Risk Register and coordinate enterprise risk assessment activities, partnering with senior stakeholders to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate key strategic risks.
• Prepare and run Executive Risk Committee (ERC) cycle, including risk reporting, escalation of material risks, action tracking, and governance processes, to support effective enterprise risk oversight.
• Partner with markets and functions to facilitate risk assessments, workshops, training, and the adoption of risk management best practices, strengthening organisational risk capabilities and ERM maturity across the business.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner to senior leadership, providing analytical rigour, structured problem-solving, and actionable insights to support enterprise-wide strategic priorities and long-term value creation. The Successful Applicant:
• Bachelor's degree or above in Business administration, or a related discipline. An MBA or equivalent advanced degree is preferred.
• 8 to 12 years of relevant experience, including at least 3 years in management consulting, with demonstrated experience in structuring ambiguous business problems, developing executive-ready deliverables, and synthesizing insights for C-suite audiences.
• At least 3 years of experience in in-house strategy, corporate planning, or FP&A within an FMCG, CPG, beverage, or multi-market organization.
• Proven track record of orchestrating enterprise-wide planning processes and leading cross-functional strategic initiatives that drive business outcomes.
• Exposure to enterprise risk management, governance, or internal control processes (e.g., risk register facilitation and executive committee reporting) is an advantage.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to evaluate business cases and challenge assumptions through financial analysis, including NPV, IRR, payback period, and scenario analysis.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, with the ability to create executive-level presentations and compelling business narratives. Familiarity with financial planning and performance management tools (e.g., Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or Jedox) is an advantage.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin is required. Cantonese or any other Asian language would be an advantage.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel for business as required. Work Location
• Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (Swire Coca-Cola Corporate Office) What's on Offer
• The opportunity to join our growing Swire Coca-Cola family (46,000 employees) and a leading beverage company.
• Permanent, full-time job opportunity.
• Open, collaborative and inclusive working environment.
• Excellent compensation & benefits.
• Medical insurance.
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