Overview

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.

Job Position: Senior Manager, EPICS (Entertainment, Partnerships, Influencer, Culture & Sports) Africa

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • Directly responsible for identifying partnership opportunities and developing and scaling the overarching EPICS (Entertainment, Partnerships, Influencer, Culture & Sports) and passion point strategy for all brands to solve business and support brand objectives across Africa.

Job Responsibilities

  1. Helping the system to maximize Return On Investment around partnerships and their activations, leveraging them as catalysts to accelerate our business growth.
  2. Brief, manage, and optimize the appointed activation agencies and other stakeholders working to deliver projects.
  3. Oversight of agency roster and selection to ensure strong relationships, good direction, diversity of skill sets and perspectives, and appropriate pricing (in partnership with procurement)
  4. Ensure the full integration and effectiveness of all strategy plan activities working in very close collaboration and partnership with the Category, Human Insights, and Frontline teams.
  5. Provide leadership, expertise, and direction to all aspects of the activations in collaboration with related teams.
  6. Develop and implement highly effective coordination and communication processes across all teams involved in different projects, both internally and externally leveraging the new The Coca-Cola Company Operating Model & Networking Organization
  7. Lead and steer the execution of global and local brand and passion point marketing strategies/concepts across all categories.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree required. Master desired
  • 7 years of relevant business/marketing experience.
  • Expertise in assets and experience in marketing. Deep knowledge of events, activations, and sponsorship
  • High ability to implement complex brand experience projects and manage external relationships with critical stakeholders.
  • Good understanding of the Africa and culturally aware of differences and specificities across the country
  • Ability to lead multiple external relationships.
  • Ability to work in Agile cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to lead and develop large and multi-market teams
  • Strong negotiation skills desirable

Skills:

  • Cost Negotiations, Data Driven, Human Insights, Integrated Marketing, Licensing Negotiations, Project Management, Results-Oriented, Strategic Communication Planning, Teamwork

Application Deadline
15th August, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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