Senior Manager, Industry Insights

coke; Fatih; On-site; TRY 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola in Istanbul, Türkiye, seeks a Senior Manager, Industry Insights to translate data into strategic actions. You will synthesize industry trends, connect diverse data sources, and collaborate with senior leaders to localize insights for the Country plan and OU-level decision-making.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in FMCG-related roles, can frame problems, and apply AI basics and analytics to drive growth and informed strategies across functions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in business development roles in FMCG or related areas.
• Translate data and insights into compelling business stories.
• Identify noise vs signals in a saturated data environment.
• Frame problems and handle ambiguity in research.
• AI/machine learning basics to explore analytical methods.
• Strong analytics foundation to read and challenge tools.
• Facilitation skills and business acumen for practical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop macro and industry trend analyses to inform strategic decisions.
• Integrate research, data, and insights across sources to prioritize issues.
• Partner with senior leaders to deploy insights at OU level and beyond.
• Support country strategy by localizing insights to the country plan.
• Lead projects and action plans with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with regional/global teams and partners to share learnings.
• Deliver reports using live data and advanced technologies.
• Apply data science knowledge to drive better business decisions.

Skills

Synthesis

Storytelling

Data analysis

AI basics

Analytics foundations

Facilitation

Job description

Job Description Summary

Senior Manager, Industry Insights

Focus, Scope, and Impact

The role is focused on gleaning high-quality, actionable insights, anchored in data and facts, to impact business results and growth. You will identify emerging trends, quantify market outlooks, and provide a comprehensive understanding of industry drivers and inhibitors while also analyzing how these factors impact volume and share performance. Stitching together multiple data sources and learnings to create a holistic and shared understanding among all stakeholders will be key. If you're a seasoned professional interested in the intersection of data and strategy, with a knack for analysis, and a desire to shape the future of one of the world's most iconic brands, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do for Us

• Develop a detailed understanding of country, category, and channel-level macro and industry trends, using data-driven analysis to uncover local dynamics and inform broader industry insights for strategic decision-making.
• Connect different research, data, and insights sources to align prioritization of key issues and opportunities, and nurture a compelling business strategy
• Partner with senior leaders to develop, localize, enhance, and deploy insights that drive strategic decision-making at the Operating Unit (OU) level and across functions.
• Support Country Strategy Leads by helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize and enhance the Country plan
• Develop and implement action plans with functions/country teams to capitalize on identified opportunity areas/threats. Own and drive these key projects
• Partner and collaborate inside and outside the department with Functions/Regional & Global teams/Bottling partners/Data services to share learnings and best practices
• Drive the development with partner teams for the delivery of reports utilizing live data flows and advanced technologies to democratize insights across teams
• Apply knowledge of existing and emerging data science principles, theories, and techniques to inform better business decisions

Qualifications & Requirements

6+ years' experience in business development roles such as Strategy, Marketing, Business planning, Insights, RGM, Finance or Commercial or related areas, ideally in the FMCG space.

• Synthesis and storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories
• Ability to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple sources into specific perspectives. Understands the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business.
• Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct research and analysis requirements; comfort with ambiguity
• AI/machine learning basics to explore innovation in analytical methodologies
• Intermediate to advanced analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools
• Facilitation skills and business acumen to drive better conversations into practical applications

What can we do for you

• Provide a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that is squarely focused on capturing data-driven growth opportunities.
• Opportunities for your work to directly impact on-the-ground business operations via the networked organization. Opportunity to influence and shape the overall strategy of the global enterprise.
• Offer Freedom within a Framework. Permission to push the organization in exploring a wide range of new insights-generating methodologies. Ample room for whitespace thinking.
• An inclusive team environment; a "learning organization" as opposed to a "know-it-all organization."
• Provide an expansive breadth and depth of merit-based personal growth opportunities.

Skills

Agile Methodology, Business Transformation, Communication, Data Analytics, Industry Networking, Influencing, Long Term Planning, Problem Analysis, Process Management, Trend Analysis

Location(s)

Türkiye

City/Cities

Istanbul

Travel Required

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided

No

Job Posting End Date

September 30, 2026

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.