Dr. Florian Kohlbacher
Angestellt, Vice President, Commercial Transformation, Japan & South Korea, The Coca-Cola Company
Tokyo, Japan
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STRATEGY LEADER | REVENUE DRIVER | PARTNERSHIP BUILDER | STORY TELLER Commercially-Astute and Culturally-Aware General Manager in both, leading global MNCs (Coca-Cola, EIU, Schindler) as well as top-rank Academic Institutions. Key strengths include P&L Leadership, Strategic Planning & Implementation, Commercial Insights and Data Analytics, Partnership Building, Impactful Story-telling – all backed up by Academic Rigor. 20+ years work-experience spans Asia and Europe. Effectively trilingual in English, Japanese and German. Contributing to top and bottom-line growth directly as P&L/Revenue leader and indirectly as Strategy & Insights leader; Setting Strategic Vision & Direction, Resource Allocation; Driving Portfolio & Commercial Strategy, Innovation effectiveness, Data Analytics & Insights; Roll up sleeves for business development, sales negotiations and customer management. Driving Corporate Exploration, partnerships (incl. M&A), Agile ways of working, Digital Transformation.
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Berufserfahrung von Florian Kohlbacher
Bis heute 5 Monate, seit Jan. 2024
Vice President, Commercial Transformation, Japan & South Korea
The Coca-Cola Company
Responsible for taking commercial transformation to the next level, leveraging digital technology: Strategy for the full potential of the Digital Transformation of our business and actionable Roadmap to execute the Strategy.
3 Jahre, Jan. 2021 - Dez. 2023
Vice President of Strategy, Japan & South Korea Operating Unit
The Coca-Cola Company
Responsible for setting the Strategic Vision & Direction for our business in Japan and Korea and for providing guidance on Where to Play & How to Win to achieve that Vision together with our Bottling Partners. Full P&L visibility and leadership in performance management. Member of the Operating Unit Leadership Team.
1 Jahr, Jan. 2020 - Dez. 2020
Vice President, Strategic Planning & Business Intelligence, Japan Business Unit
The Coca-Cola Company
Responsible for managing the Strategic Planning and Business Intelligence processes for the Japan Business Unit - annual and mid/long-rage strategic business planning, business performance tracking and analysis of the macro economic environment as well as industry & competitive dynamics. Leading the governance of the System Management Committee setting the strategic direction for the Japan System and leading Stage-Gate process for the commercialization of new innovations driving innovation effectiveness.
3 Jahre und 9 Monate, Apr. 2016 - Dez. 2019
Director, Economist Corporate Network, North Asia
The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist Group
Responsible for the Corporate Network executive consulting business in Japan and South Korea, i.e. responsible for P&L, growing membership and non-membership revenue (thought leadership projects, custom briefings, corporate trainings, consulting, etc.), driving editorial and commercial strategy as well as product development and innovation and delivering insight and analysis to global and local senior executives through events, keynote speeches, private briefings, trainings and consulting.
2014 - 2016
Associate Professor & Director
International Business School Suzhou at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Between 2014 and 2016, I held both academic and leadership positions at the business school level as well as the university level. My teaching focused on marketing courses at the (executive) MBA level and research methods courses at the MRes/PhD level. Business school level: - Associate Professor of Marketing and Innovation - Director, MRes Management Programme - Deputy Director, PhD Programme University level: - Founding Director, XJTLU Research Institute on Ageing and Society (RIAS)
4 Jahre und 5 Monate, Apr. 2010 - Aug. 2014
Head of Business & Economics Section
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
7 Jahre und 5 Monate, Apr. 2007 - Aug. 2014
Senior Research Fellow
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
2010 - 2011
Deputy Director
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
2007 - 2009
Part-time lecturer
International Christian University
Part-time
Siemens KK, Tokyo
Part-time
Schindler Elevator KK, Tokyo
Research Assistant
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Marketing Assistant
Schindler Lifts and Escalators, Vienna
Trainee
Austrian Trade Delegation, Mexico
Trainee
Schindler Elevator KK, Tokyo
Intern
Kitagawa Iron Works
Intern
Yaskawa Electric Corporation
Ausbildung von Florian Kohlbacher
2004 - 2006
International Business/ Commerce
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)
Sprachen
Chinesisch
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Englisch
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Französisch
Gut
Deutsch
Muttersprache
Japanisch
Fließend
Spanisch
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