Job Description

Location(s): India
City/Cities: Gurugram
Travel Required: 51% - 75%
Relocation Provided: Yes
Job Posting End Date: October 30, 2025
Shift:
Summary:
Strategic Relevance:
Away from Home recruitment is a key strategic lever for INSWA's growth ambition. Travel channels - Railways and Airways - are a key part of life in India and present a massive opportunity for KO to recruit consumers and build a sparkling consumption culture.
Indian Railways is the World's largest Railway network with estimated annual traveler base of
8 BN travelers annually. Current KO NARTD incidence is ~7%. Every incremental percentage point improvement in incidence could yield incremental volume of 5-6 MMUC for KO system.
The Indian Airways ecosystem -Airports and Airlines - provides an equally compelling recruitment and category building oppornity for KO. Delhi Airport (DIAL) has an annual traveler base of 69MM and Indigo Airlines annual travelers in 2022 was 78MM. These travelers are top end of Sec-A and provide significant headroom for premiumization and category development e.g. DIAL KO incidence at 11%.
While our bottling system does the hard work every day to execute in these important channels, we believe the right team centrally in the CMG can change the game through thought leadership and central engagement with key stakeholders.
Scope, & Impact:
This role aims to significantly step change incidence in Railways and Airways through:
'Customer Management Approach': Railway Board, Railway Ministry, IRCTC, DIAL, Indigo, Vistara, TFS, HMS Host + new approach to top railways distributors as customers
Work on new customer acquisition: Adani Airports etc.
Redefining BPPC: Through Consumer Brand offerings & portfolio play + Affordable pack architecture in Sparkling & Juices + Premiumization play in Airways
Integrated Execution: Develop & execute PICOS for Railways & Airways + Segmented RTM to execute strategy + Own top stations + Top quartile activation in Airports food concessions
Capability & Advocacy: Data first approach backed by robust information architecture + Revamped operating model with CCIPL managed singular relationship with Railway Zones
Additional deliverable on developing emerging Highway travel sub-channel (e.g. Highway food courts)
What will success look like?
Deliver 1.4Bn incremental transactions in 3 years over '22
Doubling incidence (6.3% in 2022 to 12.5% by 2025) in the next 3 Years - 2024 Exit target 10.5%
2X Volumes in 3 years (2023 Exit 41 MMUC) - 2024 Exit target 55 MMUC
Scope
All India (CBO + FBO)
Team: 2 Direct Reports
Qualifications & Key skills:
13+ years of leadership experience in customer, commercial, operational marketing, channel development and RGM.
Strong planning and network collaboration skills
Strong customer understanding from an execution perspective
Ability to think from planning to execution and solid system commercial and front line marketing
Bottling experience would be an added advantage
Communication Focus
Internal communication includes providing network inputs to and output from Franchise, Marketing, Bottling for end to end program execution.
External communication includes customer engagement, Bottling and Government departments including Railways Ministry, Railway Board and Divisional Railway HQs
Influencing and negotiation skills are essential for these roles as they will influence taking action on their strategies as well as securing investment for those to be implemented.
Skills: Business Development, Business Planning, Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Consultative Sales Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Long Term Planning, Operational Assessment, Sales Forecasting, Sales Management, Sales Process, Solutions Selling, Waterfall Model
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 to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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