The closing date for this role will be 3rd March 2015.
JOB SUMMARY:
- Proactively provide subject-matter expertise to the BU on emerging and on-going Health and Nutrition scientific issues as well as H&W linked consumer trends to facilitate business initiatives and promote product and company trust
- Builds and maintains a strong network of Health and Nutrition stakeholders including scientists, bodies, influencers and regulators in the BU.
- Determine vision, destination and strategies for health and wellness part of Marketing the Category plans in line with TCCC and CEWA brand and business plans
- Represent the company in H&W and also provide Strategic Leadership and Expertise to BU in the areas of nutrition and Health & Wellbeing working collaboratively with Internal (SRA community, R&D, Live Positively, Marketing, Legal , PAC and Bottler) and external (trade, industry, regulators, academia, opinion leaders, researchers, NGOs, professional and scientific organisations) stakeholders.
- Leverage H&W scientific networks to build a foundation for possible advisory council and/or consultancy.
- Support MTC/TRUST Projects from the Scientific and Nutritional Communication Perspective.
KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and implement holistic H&W strategies and activities aligned with BU, Group and Global H&W priorities including leadership of Beverage Institute where appropriate – 30%
- Provide scientific leadership and advice to brand communications teams in health and nutrition to impact business strategy, brand reputation and drive the business agenda – 20 %
- Represent the company as a leader in scientific and industry organizations to advance the Company’s SRA agenda. – 15%
- Maintain a strong and active network of external relationships, such as regulators, academics, Food, Health, Nutrition, Medical and Industry associations – 20%
- Keep abreast of emerging trends and developments in nutrition and health regulations and local and international policies that could impact ourbusiness – 10%
- Provide expertise on innovations and early identification and mitigation in Nutrition that allows BU SRA to capitalize on opportunities and deepen consumer relevance (added and changed some wordings – 5%
- Provide documentation to support PR messaging on nutrition related innovation initiatives and pipeline including informing product and ingredient related nutritional claims and communications – 5%
- To collect and disseminate scientific, clinical, and other relevant information from around the world (from Coca-Cola and from other sources) and adapt it to local conditions and environments. – 5%
- Proactively Informs the BU leadership regarding the complex nutrition/health topics of significant impact and identifies strategies to address them – 5%
- To train, educate and manage the Coca-Cola expert / health ambassadors – 20%
- To identify and attend/arrange events that provide interaction and relationship building opportunities between Coca-Cola and expert target audience – 10%
- Collaborate with Corporate SRA on Corporate related SRA Projects and SRA Strategy/Policy implementation. – 5%
- To have ownership of development of long – term expert / health vision for the brand portfolio and brand communications ensuring synergy with Coca-Cola’s commercial strategy – 10%
COMMUNICATION COMPLEXITIES:
EXTERNAL:
Extensive high level strategic and operational interactions with Health Regulators, Academics, Trade Association, Research Institutes and Foundations, etc. The purpose of the interactions are; Nutrition and H&W Advocacy, seeking Industry consensus, collaborating on scientific issues and projects, etc.
INTERNAL:
Business Unit SRA, Technical, Marketing, Public Affairs, Legal counsel, Franchise. Group and Corporate SRA, R&D.
ANALYSIS:
- Lead the development of a health and nutrition strategy aligned with emerging trends, consumer and regulatory issues
- Responsible for developing a health-professional network and Health & Wellness advocacy initiatives
- Convert complex scientific and nutritional information into simple, easy to understand facts and for consumers and other stakeholders
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate science-base and supportive health-professional network
- Advise on product composition and claims/communication requirements for new categories, functional ingredients.
- Stakeholder management (brand team, media, SRA, PAC, suppliers, rights holder, etc.)
JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING:
- Global health concerns linked to our products e.g. ingredient safety, obesity, sugar intake
- Influence to Nutrition and H&W environment to minimize business impacts
- Appropriately manage Nutrition and Health related consumer, customer and stakeholder questions regarding our ingredients and products to ensure understanding
INNOVATION:
- Leverage multiple platforms for proactive Nutrition and Health communication with stakeholders and consumers – social media, internet, universities, schools etc.
- Build Health and Nutrition communication that’s connects, informs and engages with our consumers and stakeholders.
- Provide scientific and technical support for new product/package development, claim development and substantiation of functional beverages
- Provide, review and approve Nutrition and Health related claims and communication
- Assist BU marketing, Legal and PAC in reviewing and approving Nutrition and Health consumer communications and product claims to ensure compliance to the local regulations and company policies
- Prepare dossiers in support of CRS submissions
QUALIFICATIONS / COMPENTENCIES / SKILLS: Leader of Self
TCCC Leadership Competencies:
Leaders of Self are individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their individual performance is optimal and supporting overall team performance which may occasionally involve taking on leadership roles within the team.
Drive Innovation:
- Demonstrate constructive discontent; Question when things can be done better and identify improvement areas
- Take appropriate risks and learn from mistakes
- Rapidly implement and commercialize approved ideas
- Propose opportunities for improvement; influence stakeholders to drive execution
- Apply best practices and learning from other parts of the System
Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders:
- Gain agreement from others to support ideas or take action using fact-based recommendations
- Establish and work to continually improve productive, long-term relationships
- Take action based on knowledge of effective business practices, ensuring internal/external customer needs are met or exceeded
- Consider how work impacts others and act accordingly
Inspire Others:
- Express passion for the System, our brands, business and people; be a brand ambassador
- Align actions and decisions with company vision and strategies
- Persist in achieving goals in spite of barriers or obstacles through personal commitment to work
- Be engaged in work and invest time, passion and best efforts to accomplish goals
- Respect others and be honest and open in order to build credibility and trust
Technical Competencies:
- Nutrition and Health Landscape: Knowledge of the regulatory landscape pertaining to nutrition and health globally and in the Business Unit. It also includes the knowledge on the nutrition and health issues affecting products, ingredients, claims, communication, etc.
- Advanced Nutrition Science: Understanding of nutrition science including how dietary patterns influence health and well-being, biological mechanisms through which nutrients affect metabolism, dietary patterns, activity levels and related medical conditions particularly obesity and NCDs.
- Public Health: Ability to interact with health and public health officials to represent the Company or beverage industry while explaining complex nutrition information, data, reports or issues. This includes the ability to anticipate issues or concerns of interest to nutrition and public health officials in order to respond to those concerns and the ability to advocate a position in a non-adversarial manner (e.g., during dispute resolution).
- Advanced Policy Advocacy: Ability to engage, strategize, collaborate, and lead (both internally and externally) Nutrition and Health policy initiatives that have the potential to negatively or positively impact the Company.
Skills:
• Building Value Based Relationships: Ability to generate alliances internally and externally by continuously identifying and acting on those things that will create success for the Company and its customers, bottlers, suppliers, communities and governments.
• Drives cross-discipline collaboration and teamwork: Applies understanding of scientific & regulatory processes, including internal and external relationships to advance to advance achievement of company’s and technical organization’s priorities. Demonstrated ability to establish and nurture productive cross-functional and internal and external stakeholder collaborations.
RELATED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS/ QUALIFICATIONS:
8 – 10 years of Nutrition Science experience in the beverage & food industry or Public Health. Communications, product development, networking experience advantageous.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Postgraduate/Master’s degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
MSc in Nutrition Science, Biochemistry, or equivalent qualification in Nutrition. PhD a plus.
Additional nutrition certification preferred.
Experience in nutrition science and public health a plus.
CULTURAL DIVERSITY:
Able to work with diverse skills levels amongst regulators, academia, and scientists.
Must be fluent in English and relevant local languages.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Ability to perform in a dynamic and changing environment
- Excellent communication and social skills
- Service minded, team worker and high commitment
- Ability to interact with health officials to represent the company or soft drink industry while explaining complex scientific data, report or issues.
- Ability to anticipate issues or concerns of interest to public health officials in order to respond to those concerns and the ability to advocate a position in a non-adversarial manner (e.g. during dispute resolution, etc.)
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:
40-50% and potentially to 30 countries of the BU. Some of the countries may be with certain social unrest, etc.
At The Coca-Cola Company you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.
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