Senior Director, Sprite and Schweppes - Emerging Brands

Atlanta, GA (Unknown)

$219K/yr – $247K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the global brand strategy and cross-functional collaboration for a portfolio of Coca-Cola emerging brands, shaping positioning, innovation, and market-ready execution at scale.

  • Align IMX, Innovation, and regional teams to deliver standardized, high-impact brand plans with local relevance across Sprite and Schweppes lines.
  • Steer end-to-end innovation, packaging, and channel-expansion efforts to unlock new growth opportunities while maintaining brand equity and price architecture.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set and lead the global end-to-end marketing strategy for Sprite and Schweppes Emerging Brands, including Absolut and Sprite and Schweppes Mixed, from brand positioning through execution
  • Drive global business ambition and long range and annual business planning performance against volume, value, and system growth targets
  • Define and steward brand positioning across communication, innovation, visuals, channels, and price architecture to ensure consistency, relevance, and impact
  • Lead the innovation strategy for the portfolio, including new product development, packaging, channel expansion, and future brand opportunities
  • Deploy the Coca-Cola way of marketing and commercial execution at scale, with a strong focus on digital, data, and artificial intelligence adoption
  • Serve as the primary global interface with Integrated Marketing Experience and Innovation teams to drive brand agendas and accelerate speed to market
  • Partner closely with Sprite and Schweppes global brand teams to ensure alignment and leverage across core and emerging brand strategies
  • Influence Operating Units, countries, and bottlers to adopt and deploy global strategies effectively, balancing standardization with local relevance
  • Lead external partner relationships, including alignment on business targets, performance management, communication strategies, and innovation roadmaps
  • Ensure strong cobrand alignment and value creation with external partners by building trust based, senior level relationships

Requirements

  • University experience in marketing, business, economics, or a related field
  • 15+ years of progressive professional experience in marketing, brand management, or general management roles
  • Leadership experience across global and operating unit scopes within complex, matrixed organizations
  • Proven track record of developing and scaling end-to-end global brand strategies that deliver sustained growth
  • Experience leading emerging, adjacent, or adult categories, with comfort operating in new or evolving spaces
  • Strong financial acumen, including ownership of business performance, investment prioritization, and growth forecasting
  • Demonstrated ability to lead diverse, cross functional teams, including innovation, research and development, commercial, and finance partners
  • Experience working with bottlers or local and trade marketing environments, with strong system influence skills
  • Proven capability to lead complex external partnerships and create shared value across co-owned or codeveloped brands
  • Deep consumer and cultural curiosity, with the ability to translate insights into winning strategies
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From our roots at the counter of a local Atlanta pharmacy, to our current portfolio of more than 200 beverages, The Coca-Cola Company is one of the most globally-recognized brands in the world. Today, our lineup features beloved beverage brands, including Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, smartwater, Dasani, Topo Chico, BODYARMOR, Powerade, Costa, Georgia, Goldpeak, Minute Maid, Simply, fairlife and more. The Coca-Cola Company is committed to bringing about real change – to our industry, to our local economies, and to the world around us. Through constant evolution, we continue to reimagine the way we refresh the world and make a difference.We're innovating our portfolio with products that give people more varieties that meet our consumers where they are. We're working with global partners to transform our business, and grow it in more sustainable ways. And we're providing jobs and opportunities to the local economies where our people live and work, employing 700,000 people throughout our global system alongside bottling partners.If you're a changemaker looking to make a change, come join us in our mission to refresh the world and make a difference.Learn more at: www.coca-colacompany.com/careers

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