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Director, Customer Marketing - Small Store

Yesterday Atlanta, GA

At The Coca-Cola Company, we exist to refresh the world and make a difference through loved brands, done sustainably for a better shared future. Working here is more than working for the global beverage leader, it's an opportunity to be a part of something that can positively impact the world. Our North America Operating Unit (NAOU) Marketing Teams are responsible for marketing and growing a portfolio of brands - ensuring that each brand connects deeply with local consumers in ways that scale globally.

What You'll Do For Us

  • Lead customer marketing for assigned customer
  • Represent the Category Organizational Unit (OU) platforms/programming/innovation to the customer and customer team
  • Responsible for leading marketing for our specific customers by amplifying the plans and creating differentiated marketing path to purchase platforms
  • Responsible for engaging with customer team and leveraging our Collaborative Business Plans and Coca-Cola Customer Commitment
  • Collaborate with IMX and a group of creative marketers to enable irresistible customer marketing, as well as, working with IMX connections to drive compelling media/digital marketing
  • Focus on long term (3-5 year) market and customer marketing platforms

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other graduate degree preferred
  • 5 or more years of experience required, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry or sports business; 10 or more years preferred
  • Experience leading and being a part of cross-functional teams
  • Customer Marketing Experience
  • Shopper Insights, Multi-Cultural Marketing, Annual Planning, Sustainability
  • Selling experience and collaborating for value
  • Significant customer marketing and business analytics
  • Financial Management Experience
  • Significant Creative Experience inclusive of working with or for creative shopper agencies
  • Digital & Social Knowledge & Experience inclusive of customer media platforms

Work Focus

  • Inspire customer to engage in compelling and irresistible customer marketing platforms
  • Senior level Customer Management Skills
  • Experience building, monitoring and implementing sales and marketing plans across customer
  • Advanced Strategic and Creative Thinking
  • Ability to recognize, understand, and interpret shopper behavior, brand strategies, channel and customer needs, and turn this knowledge into action and results
  • Previous Customer/Shopper/Region/Channel Management experience
  • Demonstrated personal influencing ability

Communication Focus

  • This role will predominantly communicate with the customer leadership and bottler
  • Predominant role is to collaborate with the Category Leads, Customer Leadership, Connections and IMX and then inspire our customers and system (i.e. OU's, Bottlers and Customers) with our category platforms
  • Predominantly shared interests but there is work to do to align with bottlers and customer teams to win with key category initiatives

What We Can Do For You

  • Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world and we're always innovating.
  • Expansive & Diverse Customers: We focus on a diversified and large range of customers each day.
  • Critical experiences: We work as a global network with a wide range of cross-functional partners to step-change the way we refresh the world and make an impact every day.

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Skills:
Leadership; Results-Oriented; Sales Process; Account Management; Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Sales Management; Marketing; Pitch Presentations; Consultative Sales Management; Business Insights; Sales Forecasting; Communication; National Account Sales; Customer Service Management; Decision Making; Business Development; Negotiation

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.

Client-provided location(s): Atlanta, GA
Job ID: cocacola-150886945
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2026-02-03T23:33:35

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Life Insurance
    • FSA
    • HSA
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Happy Hours
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Personal/Sick Days
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Pension
    • Performance Bonus
    • Financial Counseling
    • Stock Purchase Program
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Professional Coaching
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)