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The Coca-Cola Company · 3 days ago

Senior Director II, Water Category (Smartwater, Vitaminwater & Dasani)

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$219K/yr - $247K/yr

10+ years exp

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Senior Director II for their Water Category, overseeing brands like Smartwater, Vitaminwater, and Dasani. This role involves leading brand strategies, ensuring effective positioning, and driving growth through innovative marketing initiatives.

Consumer GoodsFast-Moving Consumer GoodsFood and BeverageManufacturing

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Leads the strategic brand development, initiatives and programs designed to broaden the appeal of our brands to the consumer to drive growth and revenue for both our innovation and profit streams

Accountable for recommending the clear, differentiated, global brand positioning, and setting the consumer target consistent with the global positioning. Drives key brand or category initiatives that effectively reach and connect with target consumers

Defines global brand(s) standards and design language and ensures consistency with brand positioning. Acts as a brand champion across the business. Approves product packaging designs to be consistent with product communications hierarchy and brand(s) standards. Works collaboratively with Design Center to lead global designs

Works with the Knowledge, Strategy and Insights teams to develop consumer marketing insights and provide a foundation for marketing strategy and channel management. Ensures strategic brand communications (including advertising, promotion and media plans) via deep consumer understanding, KBI tracking that follows global category strategy guidelines, as well as development of reporting and execution models to evaluate results and leverage key learnings

Establishes and oversees the portfolio budgets to ensure appropriate funding the brand portfolio to ensure appropriate marketing mix that drives efficiency and deliver against financial targets, accounting principles, process guidelines and productivity goals

Coaches, inspires, and builds marketing capabilities and acts as a role-model in growth behaviors and leadership behaviors

Acts as a thought leader around brand or category innovation, develops new means for stimulating creativity, insight collection or idea generation leading to new to the world insights and product concepts

Works with the brand leads to translate the business strategies into compelling business briefs to guide internal teams on the development and execution of marketing communication plans that deliver to the portfolio/ brand goals, objectives, and strategies

Works collaboratively with R&D to lead development of and recommend a brand &/or category innovation strategy, including role of sustaining and breakthrough innovation, new categories, and new market spaces. Includes innovation in brand communication, business model or strategic partnership. Can persuasively articulate the innovation strategy into a long-term product road

Qualification

Global brand strategyConsumer insightsProduct commercializationFinancial analysisMarketing plan developmentPersuasive communicationInnovation leadershipTeam management

Required

Master's degree in marketing, business or related field is required

10+ years of related CPG experience working on a business that is global with direct responsibility on a global project. Can demonstrates an understanding of differences between countries and cultures

Demonstrate the ability to translating marketing objectives into strategies and plans. Proven success in leading a team to develop a comprehensive marketing plan that is integrated across multiple consumer touch points, including at point-of-purchase

Knowledge of information used to define brand strategic corridors and develop appropriate business solutions and the ability to lead the development, communication and stewardship of global brand positioning, architectures and policies/guidelines are needed

Knowledge of and the ability to use basic financial analysis (e.g., Return on Investment, Value Chain Analysis) related to marketing effectiveness, resource allocations and new business opportunities is needed

Successfully launched several new products from concept stage through commercialization and in-market success. Has successfully managed a product portfolio

Persuasive communication skills and ability to develop materials for corporate strategy and business review meetings

Proven ability to manage and develop a marketing team