Senior Manager, Design, NEF at 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 Manager, Design, NEF

Job ID: R-135074
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Function: Integrated Marketing Experience (IMX) 
Reports to: NE Franchise IMX Lead 

Role Overview 

• The Senior Manager – Design is a key leader in the NE Franchise IMX organization, responsible for driving end-to-end design excellence across brands, categories, and consumer experiences.
• This role ensures that all design work strengthens brand equity, elevates consumer engagement, and delivers distinctive, culturally relevant expressions that perform at scale. 
• Operating as part of a highly connected OU–Market IMX model, the Senior Manager – Design integrates global and OU design platforms with local market insights to create world-class visual identity systems, packaging, communication assets, instore experiences, and digital content. 
• The role partners closely with the Franchise IMX Lead and cross-functional teams—including Marketing, Strategy, Insights, Commercial, and bottlers—to orchestrate design solutions that are both inspiring and commercially impactful. 

Key Responsibilities
Design Leadership & Brand Stewardship:

• Lead the creation, adaptation, and execution of visual identity systems, packaging designs, retail assets, and consumer experience touchpoints. 
• Ensure brand design excellence across all channels and consumer moments. 
• Maintain and evolve design guidelines to support consistent, high-quality execution in the Franchise. 
• Safeguard brand integrity while driving modern, culturally relevant interpretations. 

Partnership with IMX & Marketing:

• Collaborate with the Franchise IMX Lead to translate marketing strategies into best in class design solutions. 
• Provide expert design guidance across campaigns, innovations, experiential marketing, digital content, and activation plans. 
• Partner with OU Design Teams, global studios, agencies, and production partners to deliver high-impact creative work. 

Creative Direction & Agency Management 

• Lead design agencies, production partners, and multidisciplinary creative teams, ensuring work is on brief, on brand, and on time. 
• Enable a seamless creative development process from concept to delivery. 
• Assess agency output, identify improvement areas, and foster high-performance design partnerships. 

Consumer-Centric & Data-Driven Design:

• Translate insights and cultural trends into design opportunities that deepen consumer connection. 
• Leverage testing tools, data, and technology to validate design performance and optimize for impact. 
• Ensure designs work effectively across physical and digital environments. 

Capability Building & Operational Excellence: 

• Build design literacy and excellence within marketing, commercial, and bottler teams. 
• Support the deployment of OU-wide design capabilities, including tools, templates, and best practices. 
• Drive operating discipline across design workflows, approvals, and execution standards. 

Success Measures: 

• Consistent delivery of distinctive, high-quality design work across brands and channels. 
• Strong alignment and collaboration across IMX, marketing, commercial, bottlers, and agency partners. 
• Increased design capability and adoption of best practices by Franchise teams. 
• Design solutions that elevate brand desirability, cultural relevance, and market impact. 
• Efficient processes that ensure speed, clarity, and excellence in execution. 

Experience & Qualifications 

• 7+ years of experience in design, creative development, brand visual identity, or related fields. 
• Strong portfolio demonstrating brand identity, packaging, digital design, and consumer experience systems. 
• Experience managing multiple design projects across categories, countries, or cross functional teams. 
• Proficiency working with agencies, creative studios, and production partners. 
• Deep understanding of marketing, brand-building principles, and consumer insights. 
• Exposure to digital design, motion graphics, or tech-enabled design tools is an advantage. 

Behavioural & Leadership Expectations:

• Creative Thinker & Problem Solver: passionate about design, curious, and able to turn insights into bold, relevant creative solutions. 
• Enterprise Mindset: collaborates seamlessly across teams and puts system-wide impact first. 
• Growth Mindset: embraces experimentation, continuous learning, and new approaches. 
• Influential Communicator: able to inspire, articulate creative rationale, and align diverse stakeholders. 
• High Ownership: accountable, structured, and able to manage complexity with discipline and clarity. 

Other Considerations:

• Travel may be required for agency reviews, market visits, and production oversight. 
• Role operates within an OU–Market model that requires strong collaboration and agility. 

Skills:

Videography; Social Media; Creativity; Programmatic (Inactive); Paid Search Marketing; Marketing Campaigns; Marketing Strategies; Waterfall Model; Digital Media; Microsoft Office; Search Engine Optimization (SEO); Group Problem Solving; Communication; Google Analytics; Teamwork; Search Engine Marketing (SEM); Digital Signage; Negotiation; Connections Planning; Agency Management

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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