Coca-Cola India on Friday announced key changes in organisational structure as part of plans to emerge among the top five markets globally for its parent firm.
As part of the reshuffle, current Vice President Customer and Commercial leadership, Sumanta Datta will take over as Vice President (VP), Company Bottling Operations, while Bhupendra Suri, currently Director, Franchise Operations, is being elevated as VP – Franchise Bottling Operations. On the other hand, VP Operations Vikas Chawla is moving to Athens taking over as the Franchise Operations Head in South East Europe.
“Building our talent pipeline and developing people capability is one of our key pillars for success. The new senior level management changes being announced today is a step in that direction,” Coca Cola Deputy Business Unit President, India and South West Asia, Venkatesh Kini said in a statement. The entire team will work closely with the company's bottling partners to achieve Vision 2020 goals in India, he added.
The changes are effective October 1, 2013 and all the senior leaders of the company will report to Kini, the company said. “These (changes) are aligned to the company's long term plans of becoming one of The Coca-Cola Company's top five markets (in volume terms) by 2020,” the company said. As parts of the changes, Datta, will take over as Vice President, Company Bottling Operations, including Delhi region and national key accounts.
Further, Suri, currently Director, Franchise Operations, is being elevated as VP – Franchise Bottling Operations, it added. On the other hand, Chawla will lead operations for twelve European countries. “Andriy Avramenko, currently VP - Juice, will take over as Vice President Strategy and Still Beverages,” the company said.