Current Vacancies at The Coca-Cola Company

Position Overview:

• We are looking for a Digital Acceleration senior Director who can lead our enterprise-wide digital agenda at Coca-Cola Africa. We at Coca-Cola are disrupting a proven business model; rapidly embracing digital as an enterprise-wide, enabler of future growth. Over the last few years, we have seen progress in many areas: digital media, the adoption of B2B, rapid growth in e-commerce and many technologies that support the day-to-day business. The opportunity ahead: more aligned, focused, collaborative, and ultimately; more impactful. To better steward this enterprise-wide agenda; we are broadening our digital efforts with the formation of a Digital Acceleration Office (DAO).

What You'll Do for Us:

• Ensure a single Operating Unit (OU) Digital Strategy, Narrative & Tracking (embedded in the Long-Range Plan (LRP) and Annual Business Plan (ABP))
• Orchestrate enterprise-wide digital business planning to ensure a single Operating Unit (OU) / System Strategy including network wide change management oversight
• Orchestrate functions’ digital BAU activities & acceleration projects progress to ensure visibility of a single Operating Unit (OU) / System dashboard
• Support the Data & Analytics Office VP in the liaison with the Global Digital Council providing visibility of OU results and cascading global Digital Council actions into OU and Leadership Team (LT) routines
• Orchestrate OU Digital Council with the OU network within Operating Unite Leadership Team (OULT) routines
• Support the Digital Experiences team via the prioritization & orchestration of initiatives for acceleration across the network for both locally and Globally led projects
• Responsible for a monthly strategic dashboard for digital (1page KPIs)
• Elevate our current digital commerce partnerships to an enterprise level to achieve our strategy, in partnership with functions and franchises
• Define our partnership framework, to help deliver on our annual and long-range OU plans
• Define the engagement strategy for each regional partnership, working in collaboration and consultation with global, local bottlers and 3rd party platforms
• Understand the full digital eco-system, highlighting key areas of collaboration & transformation, conducting regular, quantitated assessments of the markets and potential
• Define people digital knowledge/ capability needs by function across the OU
• Orchestrate and deliver enterprise digital knowledge building programs (partnering with People team) to meet current & future needs across the Enterprise
• Develop OU Data Strategy for all information captured across the OU/ System, including data collected from digital activities
• Orchestrate OU & System to develop and execute Data Strategy and implement LTRM information sharing principles across all functions if applicable, partnering with Platform Services, OU Digital Services and Bottlers
• Connect the plan to Global Data strategy
• Promote a two-way feedback culture; one built on trust, transparency, and accountability
• Foster resilience, giving the team tools and techniques to deal with obstacles
• Drive a well-rounded commercial acumen & knowledge agenda to ensure tangible impact and connection with the local market and bottlers
• Be the role model, encapsulating the Leadership and Growth Behaviours

Qualifications & Requirements:

• 10+ years of leadership experience in FMCG digital related fields
• Must have strong general management and business profile
• Proven success within Digital Commerce setting
• Ability to define priorities based on understanding of local business solutions
• Strong planning, financial, and collaboration skills
• Experience in leading teams and managing projects
• Experience working with The Coca-Cola Company external partners (bottlers and customers)
• Experience working in cross-functional and cross-geographical teams

What We Can Do For You:

• Career Development: The Coca-Cola Company offers a wide range of resources and programs to support your career development, including global learning programs and leadership development programs.
• Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation. 
• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate, and innovate. 

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Job Description

• EPICS is a team that is at the epicentre of culture, passion point marketing, and live experiences. With consumer centricity at the core, EPICS team strive to create and enable meaningful experiences with our brands through the things that our consumers and customers deeply care about.

What You will Do For Us

• Helping the system to maximize Return On Investment around partnerships and their activations, leveraging them as catalysts to accelerate our business growth.
• Brief, manage, and optimize the appointed activation agencies and other stakeholders working to deliver projects.
• Oversight of agency roster and selection to ensure strong relationships, good direction, diversity of skill sets and perspectives, and appropriate pricing (in partnership with procurement)
• Ensure the full integration and effectiveness of all strategy plan activities working in very close collaboration and partnership with the Category, Human Insights, and Frontline teams.
• Provide leadership, expertise, and direction to all aspects of the activations in collaboration with related teams.
• Develop and implement highly effective coordination and communication processes across all teams involved in different projects, both internally and externally leveraging the new The Coca-Cola Company Operating Model & Networking Organization
• Lead and steer the execution of global and local brand and passion point marketing strategies/concepts across all categories.

Role Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master desired
• 7 years of relevant business/marketing experience.
• Expertise in assets and experience in marketing. Deep knowledge of events, activations, and sponsorship
• High ability to implement complex brand experience projects and manage external relationships with critical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of the Africa and culturally aware of differences and specificities across the country
• Ability to lead multiple external relationships.
• Ability to work in Agile cross-functional teams.
• Ability to lead and develop large and multi-market teams
• Strong negotiation skills desirable

Skills:

Teamwork; Project Management; Data Driven; Strategic Communication Planning; Human Insights; Results-Oriented; Cost Negotiations; Licensing Negotiations; Integrated Marketing