Senior Director, Digital Acceleration at the Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. At The Coca-Cola Company, you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Director, Digital Acceleration

Job ID: R-105412
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

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

Application Closing Date
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