Director Resource Allocation

**Job Description Summary:** **Director, Resource Allocation** **_Reports to: Vice President, Planning, Performance Management & System Economics_** **Location: Johannesburg, South Africa** **Job Description Summary:** The Planning, Performance Management, and System Economics department at AOU is responsible for leading System Value Creation by ensuring the organization is prepared for the future. The team oversees end-to-end Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Resource Allocation, and System economics to drive sustainable value creation. By enabling rigorous planning, forecasting, and performance management processes, the department delivers actionable insights to support strategic decision-making, promotes operational excellence, and leads financial communication across the System. The Resource Allocation function plays a pivotal role in shaping how and where the organization invests to maximize long-term value creation. The team leads the design and execution of a dynamic, fact-based resource allocation process, ensuring capital and operating resources are consistently directed toward the highest-impact opportunities. By working closely with business, finance, and functional teams across the System, the function builds a holistic view of strategic priorities, performance trade-offs, and investment returns. It translates complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations for Senior Management, enabling faster, better-informed decisions in a rapidly evolving environment. **What You'll Do for Us:** * **Decide where to invest resources** by working hand-in-hand with all functions to ensure capital and operating spend are aligned with strategic priorities and value creation objectives. * **Assess and track returns on investment (ROI and ROIC)**, ensuring resources are continuously reallocated toward initiatives with the highest impact and that underperforming investments are course-corrected in a timely manner. * **Connect across all functions** to enable a dynamic, forward-looking view of business needs and resource availability, supporting agile decision-making as priorities evolve. * **Lead a robust resource governance model** in close partnership with Senior Management, providing clear decision rights, transparency, and accountability on resource allocation choices. * **Embed a strong financial and value-creation culture** across the organization, educating teams on financial discipline, capital efficiency, and ROIC-driven decision-making. * **Ensure full compliance with Africa OU requirements**, aligning resource allocation processes with regional policies, standards, and governance frameworks. * **Partner closely with the Finance Hub** to ensure corporate systems and tools are fully deployed, adopted, and leveraged across Africa OU, maximizing their potential to support robust planning, resource allocation, and performance management. **Requirements & Qualifications:** * **Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience** in Finance, FP&A, Strategy & Insights, or Performance Management. * Demonstrated ability to **execute complex initiatives end-to-end**, ensuring high-quality delivery, clear workflows, and timely outcomes. * Strong **communication and collaboration skills**, with the ability to prepare clear, structured materials and work effectively as a **team player** across functions * Solid **project management capabilities**, with experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and contributing directly to project execution. * Proven experience in **data digitalization, automation, and performance reporting**, with a strong focus on data quality and usability. * Good understanding of **System economics**, including financial interactions with bottlers and key partners. **What We'll Do for You:** * Provide **regular exposure to leadership teams** within the Operating Unit and interaction with Corporate, supporting professional growth and business understanding. * Offer the opportunity to build a strong understanding of the business within an AOU covering **54 markets**, a key driver of the company’s volume growth. * Enable a **broad, cross-functional perspective**, with hands-on interaction across business areas and collaboration with bottlers and System partners. * Strengthen your understanding of the **financial impact of business decisions**, through active involvement in planning, performance reviews, and projects. * Give you the opportunity to **contribute meaningfully to the company’s digitalization efforts**, supporting improvements in data, analytics, and performance management processes. **Relocation Provided:** No **Job Posting End Date:** **Career Group/Band:** C **Travel Required:** 20% **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Business Analytics, Communication, Data Modeling, Financial Forecasting, Forecasting, Group Problem Solving, Leadership, Strategy Development, System Economics, Valuation Modeling, Waterfall Model **Location(s):** South Africa **City/Cities:** Johannesburg **Travel Required:** 00% - 25% **Relocation Provided:** No **Job Posting End Date:** August 17, 2026 **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](https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/purpose-and-vision) to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.