
Courtney Elliott
Senior Commercial Strategy, Sales, and Operations Leader
Coca-Cola
Frisco, TX USA
“If you have an aptitude to learn and the confidence to ask questions, you can position yourself for any position that you’re interested in.”
Coca-Cola
Frisco, TX USA
“If you have an aptitude to learn and the confidence to ask questions, you can position yourself for any position that you’re interested in.”
Senior Commercial Strategy, Sales, and Operations Leader
I lead franchise management activities and operations across Texas, Oklahoma, and portions of New Mexico and Arkansas.
In franchise leadership, I'm essentially the general manager. All of my work revolves around making sure we deliver on our bottom line annually as well as long term. I'm responsible for joint business planning and putting together the financial plans with our bottlers. I'm also responsible for brand development—so, if we launch a new product, I lead the acceleration of that product where our bottlers have distribution rights. I also spend time accelerating our brands locally.
Here's the first step for college students
If you want to work in business, I recommend pursuing an analytical degree in something like finance, accounting, or even chemistry like me! Having an analytical degree is very beneficial because as long as you can quantify areas of a business, you can do pretty much anything. You just need to have the aptitude to learn and the confidence to ask questions.
"Maybe the grass is greener on the other side. Maybe another job would be better."