Senior Director, Research & Innovation Digital Platform

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Yes

Job Posting End Date:

January 31, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

At The Coca-Cola Company, an industry leader and global icon of innovation, we are actively searching for an analytically savvy Senior Director II, Strategy and Business Development - Strategic Insights and Analytics. This role is crucial in harnessing data to chart our future, translating intricate analyses into strategic actions that drive our growth and market leadership. Your expertise will not only shape the company's strategic ventures but will also refine our business processes. As a pivotal member of our team, your knack for identifying trends, coupled with your business acumen, will uncover opportunities, and guide our organization toward continued profitability and success.

What You'll Do for Us:

• Dive deep into strategic issues and opportunities, employing data-driven insights to influence organizational growth and profitability.
• Lead research endeavors, offering data-fueled perspectives for potential mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in alignment with our growth objectives.
• Hone business processes through meticulous analysis, optimizing performance against overarching business goals.
• Deploy complex data research and analytics to bolster business operations across various key areas, including Market Economics and Supply Chain.
• Create and maintain robust data mining architectures, models, and protocols, while presenting statistical reporting and data analysis methodologies.
• Engage with cutting-edge data science principles, theories, and techniques to inform and enhance business decisions.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics, or related fields.
• 7+ years leadership experience in strategy, business development, or analytics within a major corporation.
• Strong capability to discern and evaluate strategic business opportunities leveraging complex data analysis.
• Adept in overseeing the planning and execution of strategic business initiatives across various organizational units.
• Proficiency in data mining, statistical analysis, and trending as applied to crucial business streams.
• Innovator with a proven ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and strategic plans.
• Demonstrated track record of leading high-impact projects and guiding cross-functional teams.

What We'll Do for You:

• Provide a pivotal leadership role in a globally recognized company committed to innovation and market leadership.
• Empower you to make wide-reaching decisions across functional and organizational units, shaping the company's future.
• Cultivate a workplace culture that values collaboration, strategic creativity, and impactful contributions, offering ample opportunities for personal and professional growth.

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Pay Range:

$224,100 - $257,600

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

50

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Long-term Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

20

Long-term Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role.

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company c