Posted 9 days ago
Director, Franchise Operations - Canada
@ The Coca-Cola Company
Toronto, Ontario
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Overview
The Coca-Cola Company is hiring a Director, Franchise Operations - Canada to lead commercial performance across its Canadian bottling partner network. The role owns revenue, volume, share and transaction growth, manages discretionary budgets, and negotiates bottling and supply chain agreements. The posting requires a bachelor's degree, 5+ years in CPG direct sales, key account or franchise management with P&L responsibility, and bottler or manufacturing experience; no schedule, pay or work arrangement is stated.
Responsibilities:
- Manage weekly and monthly performance reporting on revenue, volume and share
- Execute commercial strategy with franchise bottling partners
- Manage discretionary budgets based on regional need
- Negotiate bottling contracts and national supply chain agreements
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or Management; Master's preferred
- 5+ years in CPG direct sales, key account or franchise management with P&L responsibility
- Bottler or manufacturing experience in food and beverage
- Experience with annual business planning and forecasting
Tools & skills
Performance managementReportingLeadershipSalesNegotiationSupply chain managementFood and beverage industryForecastingRelationship buildingChannel marketingResearchTime managementProblem solvingAnalytical skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-05
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-15
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-15
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Job details
| Seniority | Director |
| Department | Sales |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Business, Marketing, Management |
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Job description
Position Overview
The Director Franchise Operations - Canada serves as the primary point of contact representing the total region portfolio and will steward the development of the brands with primary accountability of growing revenue, volume, share and transactions through.
We are looking for candidates with bottling or general management experience that can build relationships and execute our strategies across our network.
What You’ll Do For Us
Qualifications & Requirements:
The Director Franchise Operations - Canada serves as the primary point of contact representing the total region portfolio and will steward the development of the brands with primary accountability of growing revenue, volume, share and transactions through.
We are looking for candidates with bottling or general management experience that can build relationships and execute our strategies across our network.
What You’ll Do For Us
- Responsible for weekly/monthly performance management, which includes reporting on revenue, volume, share, transaction metrics.
- Monitors performance versus execution objectives, re-plans as necessary and provides feedback to key stakeholders. Also, manages discretionary budgets based on regional need.
- Executes the commercial strategy and plans with franchise (bottling partners) owners for local market execution.
- Responsible for collaborating on the contingency plan to deliver annual business plan performance in channels to include revenue, volume, share, net outlets, SOVI (share of visual inventory), and pricing.
- Standardizes common approach to capability building based on bottler segmentation.
- Assesses local Bottler commercial capabilities against established commercial strategies and objectives using the core measures within the Global Commercial Leadership Diagnostic Analysis Model; identifying gaps and develops action plans to improve capabilities.
- Coordinate's training/development enables more effective processes, scorecards and business routines to achieve the annual business plan.
- Work with franchise commercial manager to steward the planning process that is in place bi-monthly, ensuring all customer plans are included.
- Be the SME for Large Store, Small Store and FSOP Channel Plans and work with respective Directors and their sales teams at the bottlers to execute the plan. Participate in all channel planning routines from Atlanta.
- Provides Bottler performance feedback to Franchise Leadership “serving as voice of the market.”
- Monitor's market conditions and reports competitive activity to management, Bottler and local associates in order to understand program effectiveness and any implementation barriers.
- Work with Commercial Manager to support the development of commercial stewardship bi-monthly planning stewardship.
- Ensure all National Retail, National Foodservice and Regional customer plans are communicated within planning process to ensure end to end execution.
- Responsible for negotiation and resolving bottling contracts and National Supply Chain agreements as well as governance agreements and manages governance routines.
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Management with a Master’s degree is preferred.
- 5 or more years in CPG organization responsible for direct sales, key account or franchise management with P&L responsibility.
- Must have experience as a Business Partner with direct bottler or manufacturing experience in the Food and Beverage industry and how to develop capacity plans to meet customer demand.
- Must have experience with annual business planning, forecasting, customer and distributor management and demonstration a track record for delivering positive revenue results.
- Demonstrate passion for selling, negotiating, relationship building in an entrepreneurial environment.
- Understanding of channel marketing, syndicated marketing research and competitive analysis and how to utilize this knowledge to drive sales.
- Must possess excellent relationship building skills, as well as strategic leadership abilities
- The ability to influence outcomes and be persuasive are ideal
- Demonstrate strong time management capabilities, attention to details, the ability to prioritize quickly and take risks as well as thrive in ambiguity.
- Strong data literacy, problem-solving and analytical skills are ideal.
- An understanding of channel marketing, syndicated marketing research and competitive analysis and how to utilize this knowledge to drive sales are ideal.
- Iconic Brand: Work on the most recognized brand in the world and be part of developing the brands next chapter.
- Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global marketing leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging digital platforms and marketing insights.
- Learning Culture: Access to resources such as Coke University, LinkedIn Learning and management programs that give you the resources to continually develop your skills and knowledge.
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