Senior Director, Data, Tech, & Capabilities - Marketing and Customer & Commercial Leadership

The Coca-Cola Company; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 367,000 - 551,000; Full time

Job summary

A global beverage leader seeks an experienced marketing professional in the United Arab Emirates. This role involves owning the data strategy and architecting an AI-powered MarTech ecosystem while leading a team. Candidates should have over 12 years of marketing experience, particularly in technology and data. You will work within a dynamic team structure to enhance campaign efficacy and drive measurable impact. Strong leadership and a growth mindset are critical for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 12 years+ significant marketing and leadership experience with a focus on tech/data.
• Experience across various marketing disciplines including innovation and growth strategy.
• Ability to lead complex, cross-geographical teams and projects.

Responsibilities

• Own data strategy, orchestration & governance.
• Architect a data-heavy, AI-powered MarTech ecosystem.
• Lead a team of 4 talents and manage marketing operations.

Skills

Marketing and leadership experience

Tech/data focus

Cross-functional team leadership

Digital/ Data/ AI leveraging

Job description

Overview

Location(s): Türkiye

City/Cities: Istanbul

Travel Required: 0% - 25%

Relocation Provided: No

Job Posting End Date: February 6, 2026

Shift:

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 (Return on Investment). 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

Upskill marketing community & outcomes through DATA, capabilities, and tech-augmented solutions. Architect a future-ready, data-heavy, AI-powered MarTech ecosystem to accelerate capabilities, creativity, innovation and deliver measurable impact at scale.

• Own data strategy, orchestration & governance - create the OU (Operating Unit) “Brain”
• Architect a data-heavy, AI-powered MarTech ecosystem
• Marketing and Commercial Digital products/platforms ownership and roadmaps.
• Build and scale marketing capabilities especially acting as COE (center of excellence) for Data & AI literacy
• Lead OU orchestration and backlog management, including workflow, marketing operations, and planning
• Enable and activate the network to embed tech-augmented ways of working.
• Lead a team of 4 talents
• What Success Looks Like: Data and AI directly improve decision quality and ROI; Tools are adopted, not resisted; Capability gaps visibly close across markets; Marketing operates faster and with more precision;

Experience & Critical Requirements

• Significant marketing and leadership experience (12 years+), with great focus in tech/data
• 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 (agencies)
• 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.

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.