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).
Duties and Responsibilities
- 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.
How To Apply
