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

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job 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).

Responsibilities
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. 

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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