Director, Corporate Strategy

Job Description Summary

The Director, Corporate Strategy supports key priorities of the enterprise strategy agenda including topics related to strategy development, cross-functional enterprise initiatives and enterprise critical routines.

What You'll Do for Us

• Partner and collaborate inside the department with various Sr. leaders, including the Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Vice President, Enterprise-Wide Initiatives & Strategic Transformation, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and Vice President, Enterprise Learning, as well as outside the department with Functions/OUs/Platform Services based on the priorities of the enterprise and the department.
• For priorities identified, be a critical project team member to deliver expectations. Drive own work-stream effectively with limited guidance, demonstrating initiative and the ability to be self-driven; proactively raise issues and challenges that occur along the way.
• Conduct analysis to provide initial recommendations for workstream that solve specific issues identified and that are sufficiently pragmatic.
• More broadly, demonstrate increasing understanding of the priorities of the function and take the initiative to surface opportunities to achieve them.
• Drive relevant analysis and insights (be able to offer initial implications of analysis), both individually and with the help of PS/OUs/Functions to support rotating priorities and share results in a digestible manner to Operating Committee.
• For specific workstreams, lead a network of peers and/or consultants to drive towards end-products and clear deliverables.
• Serve as a super user and advocate for enterprise-approved AI and digital productivity tools to enhance strategic analysis, accelerate insight generation, improve team productivity, and increase the quality and speed of deliverables.
• Share leading AI best practices, coach Strategy associates on effective use cases, and promote adoption of approved AI capabilities

Qualifications & Experience

• 7-9 years of business experience, with experience in strategy, finance, or other generalist fields
• Graduate Degree in business, strategy or a related field
• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels, depending on priorities of the Strategy department, exemplifying network ways of working
• Ability to partner with leaders of the Corporate Strategy team as well as the network of OUs/Functions/Platform Services.
• Strong problem solving - ability to be hypothesis-driven, drive from analysis to insights and implications, be comfortable taking in data and input from a variety of different sources, and to be structured and logical in thinking
• Strong team player willing to help others out in team during projects
• Analytical with attention to detail but at the same time able to be 80:20, prioritize appropriately and to be comfortable with a certain amount of ambiguity
• Ability to rotate across priorities and multi-task, leverage relationships with key business partners, comfortable in working closely with OUs/Functions/Platform Services, with stakeholder management capabilities
• Outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal) - ability to synthesize, some ability to pull disparate analyses together into a single narrative; some ability to develop visually compelling charts and create portions of crisply written white papers that focus on key messages.
• Proficiency in both Microsoft Excel (for analysis) and PowerPoint (for visual communication)
• Demonstrated experience using generative AI, automation, analytics, and digital productivity tools to improve business processes, enhance problem solving and decision making, data analysis, communication, and productivity in a business environment
• Curiosity and aptitude for learning and applying new digital and AI capabilities, with the ability to translate technological advances into practical applications and outcomes

Key Knowledge Required

• Critical Thinking
• Data Analysis & Insights
• Process Management & Improvement
• Business Acumen
• Networking & Influencing
• Collaboration
• AI-Enabled Productivity & Ways of Working
• Digital Tools Adoption & Change Leadership

Broad Expertise in

• Technology
• Agile ways of working
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Storytelling

Additional information

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

Analytics Software, Communication, Competitor Analysis, Customer Insights, Data Mining, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Influencing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Long Term Planning, Microsoft Office, Professional Presentation, Relationship Building, Risk Mitigation Strategies, Stakeholder Management, Storytelling, Strategic Thinking, Syndicated Research, Tactical Planning, Waterfall Model

Pay Range

United States: 164,000 - 193,000 USD

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: 30

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.

• Location(s): United States of America
• City/Cities: Atlanta
• Travel Required: 00% - 25%
• Relocation Provided: No
• Job Posting End Date: November 20, 2026

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 continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.