About this role
Location(s):
KazakhstanCity/Cities:
AlmatyTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
February 6, 2026Shift:
Job Description Summary:
EME OU (Eurasia Middle East Operating Unit) Marketing is undergoing a step-change to deliver more balanced, sustainable growth, powered by deeper consumer intimacy, stronger integration, accelerated innovation, and data- and tech-enabled precision marketing. The organization is designed to combine local relevance with scale, shift data and technology from experimentation to competitive advantage, and operate through flywheel execution with clear accountability for impact and ROI. All roles operate within a tightly integrated OU–Market model, where the OU elevates and enables long-term growth + OU-wide platforms while markets integrate, execute, and track performance with speed and rigor while developing local content, partnership and experiences.
Focus, Scope, & Impact:
Deep understanding of the art & science behind local consumer & shopper needs, behaviour, and foresights, enabled by human sciences, data and advanced analytics
- Own the art & science of local consumer and shopper understanding, spanning needs, behaviours, rituals, and decision journeys. Lead human sciences, foresights, and future scenarios to anticipate cultural and consumption shifts. Lead shopper sciences to unlock conversion, in-store excellence, and path-to-purchase growth.
- Support portfolio decision for the market
- Work with OU (Operating Unit) to define local research, advanced analytics, and modelling agenda
- Ensure consumer-centricity, deploying OU -wide intelligence platforms and new technologies.
- Lead with Frontline/ Local category teams superior performance assessment.
- Actively engage with the OU network, ensuring rigor, coordination, collaboration and upskilling.
- Lead a team of 3 talents (TR) or Individual contributor (other regions)
- What Success Looks Like: Clear, focused, human-centred marketing choices that maximizes ROI ; Nuanced/ Granular analytics and insights that enables local intimacy, translate data into Insights that shape consumer/shopper programs and investments; S, High adoption of modelling & insight tech-enabled tools
Experience & Critical Requirements
- Significant marketing and leadership experience (10 years+), with great focus on insights, analytics, human sciences and market research.
- Acumen across relevant marketing disciplines: innovation, creative strategy, connections, design, category/brand positioning & growth strategy
- Led scaled, complex, cross-functional and cross-geographical teams and projects
- Led projects and capabilities that leverage Digital/ Data/ AI as edges
- Led and developed teams directly and external partners
- Behaviors: Growth Mindset: someone that is curious, dreams big, does what is hard and has an enterprise mindset. Passionate and uncompromisable commitment to excellence and servant leadership.
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Brand Positioning, Brand Storytelling, Channel Management, Channels Strategy, Communication, Competitive Assessments, Consumer Segmentation, Consumer Trends, Decision Making, Digital Media Strategy, Group Problem Solving, Leadership, Market Research, Media Planning, Microsoft Office, Quantitative Research, Retail Marketing Strategy, Social Media Strategies, Syndicated Research, Waterfall ModelOur 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.
Other facts
About The Coca-Cola Company
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
What you'll do
- The Director will lead the understanding of local consumer and shopper needs, behaviors, and decision journeys, utilizing human sciences and advanced analytics. They will also support portfolio decisions and ensure consumer-centricity through collaboration with local category teams.
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