Creative Strategy Director – Africa at the Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world’s largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands.

At The Coca-Cola Company you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Creative Strategy Director – Africa

Reference ID: R-69724
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Travel Required: 26% – 50%
Relocation Provided: Yes
Reports To: Category Director – Africa

Responsibilities
What you will do:

Architect and align stakeholders to the integrated marketing strategy for brand or a portfolio of brands including supporting strategies for the base business and for innovations.
Proactively collaborate with the brand teams to identify opportunities for brand growth outside of the annual end to end process and translate those opportunities into actionable strategies.
Author and align key stakeholders to end to end briefs; lead agency briefings and identify innovative ways to measure the effectiveness of brand campaigns.
Provide strategic thought-leadership throughout the end to end process: guide adherence to (and when needed, evolution of) the strategy among internal teams and external agency partners; identify opportunities to bring consumer research and data into the process; help develop measurement plans to evaluate and optimize campaigns; foster a culture of collaboration that continually challenges and builds the brand team’s collective thinking.
Actively collaborate with the brand/category team to translate global/regional direction to Africa Operating Unit (where applicable) and to ensure that the strategy is relevant to consumers, positions the brand for future growth and can ultimately inspire differentiated marketing communications.

About You
Education:

Bachelor’s Degree required.

Related Work Experience:

8 – 10 years of experience in a similar role
Experience working at and with world-class creative agencies and track record of inspiring big (ideally award-winning) creative thinking a plus.

Work Focus:

Ability to collaborate across disciplines to open new, innovative spaces for brand growth based on consumer insights, cultural trends and current and future business needs.
Ability to define overall end to end strategies.

Ability to lay the strategic foundation needed to spark, evaluate, measure and optimize creative ideas that comprise a brand’s annual marketing efforts in a way that delivers business growth and consumer value.

Communication Focus:

Communicate with both internal and external parties
Responsible for sharing information and influencing others

Key Knowledge Requirements:
Mastery of (Required):

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Articulate complex ideas in a clear, compelling manner
Collaborate and build consensus
Translate consumer and cultural research/data, business objectives and diverse perspectives into actionable marketing strategies
Lead and shape consumer research.

Broad Perspective: