Country Lead People and Culture: Commercial and Support
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Company: East Africa Bottling Share Company (Ethiopia)
Deadline: November 13, 2025
Job Description
East Africa Bottling S.C., a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa and the exclusive bottler of Coca-Cola products in Ethiopia, is pleased to invite passionate and qualified candidates to apply for the position Country Lead P&C: Commercial & Support, which is based in Addis Ababa. The successful candidate will report directly to the Country People & Culture Director.
Key Purpose Statement
The Country Lead, People & Culture – Commercial and Support is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to the People & Culture (P&C) function within the commercial and support divisions. The role ensures effective implementation of P&C strategies, policies, and programs that drive business performance, talent development, and employee engagement. It partners closely with business leaders to deliver efficient people solutions, foster a high-performance culture, and ensure alignment between organizational objectives and workforce capabilities.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Business Partnership, Leadership, and Governance
- HR Strategy Implementation: Oversee and tailor the HR strategy to meet current and future needs.
- Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to labor laws and educate leaders on local practices.
Accelerating Talent
- Talent Development: Implement strategies to align with People & Culture and business objectives.
- Data-Driven Talent Acquisition: Use analytics to address talent challenges and build a skilled pipeline.
- Leadership Support: Anticipate future talent needs and localize sourcing strategies.
- Internal Talent Growth: Identify and develop high-potential employees for rapid growth and succession planning.
Cost Ownership
- Financial Accountability: Partner with Line to streamline operations and reduce labor costs.
- Reward Strategy Alignment: Maintain financial governance and ensure equitable reward practices.
Organizational Design for Growth
- Efficiency Optimization: Drive initiatives to optimize spans of control and management ratios.
- Change Management: Lead localization of change efforts and build change capability in leaders and employees.
- Team Effectiveness: Harness team strengths to develop capabilities for organizational objectives.
High-Performance Culture and Transformation
- High-Performance Mindset: Promote a culture of excellence across functions.
- Learning and Development Integration: Align initiatives with business strategies for continuous improvement.
- Employer Relations Support: Provide on-the-ground support to ensure a positive ER climate.
- Employee Engagement: Champion health, wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion programs.
Skills, Experience & Education
- BA degree in Management, Business Administration, or related field.
- 8+ years of HR experience in both operational and corporate settings of which 3 years in a leadership role.
General
- Strategic Leadership: anticipating business trends to formulate aligned, forward-looking strategies.
- Operational Agility: to fostering alignment and communication across diverse organizational layers.
- Talent Management Expertise: crafting adaptable talent strategies and addressing skill gaps.
- Change and Digital Leadership: steering digital transitions and organizational change.
- Business Acumen: merging P&C strategies with business objectives for operational growth.
- Culture Transformation: driving and embedding cultural shifts for enhanced collaboration.
- D&I Champion: developing and implementing diversity and inclusion strategies.
- Employment Law Expertise: Extensive knowledge of employment laws
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Analytical skills for strategic decision-making based on data insights.
- Organizational Architect: designing structures for organizational flexibility and growth.
- Leadership Excellence: Demonstrates exceptional skills in motivating, guiding, and inspiring teams.
- Data & Analytics: Demonstrate capable analytical ability, data accuracy stewardship and deductive reasoning in translating analytics into meaningful insights and tactical actions.
At Coca-Cola Beverages Africa we are proud to celebrate diversity and we strive to achieve an equal opportunity workplace by being cognisant of affirmative action requirements. It is our policy to be mindful and compliant with all our regional requirements and national laws for those regions. Employment at Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is based solely on an individual’s merit and qualifications directly related to their field of competence. We do not discriminate against an employee or potential employees because race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability and gender identity.
