Director, Data Enablement & Standards

0101 Coca-Cola North America; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola North America division seeks a Director of Data Enablement & Standards to connect business priorities with data capabilities, processes, and decision-makers across a complex system. You will lead priority efforts aligning definitions, hierarchies, and data sharing across NAOU and bottling partners, driving practical solutions and sustained value.

Responsibilities include shaping the data enablement portfolio, cross-functional alignment, and governance of external data while

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Data & Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in data, analytics, data management, or related business roles, including leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Data and analytics fluency: understands datasets, hierarchies, lineage, quality, and business use; can connect business needs with technical considerations.
• Influence without authority: build trust across organizations with different incentives and secure buy-in.
• Decision-oriented leadership: frame problems, develop options, and help stakeholders decide; assign owners and follow‑through.
• Independent ownership and judgment: determine next steps and priorities; know when to act or escalate.
• Process design and continuous improvement: map processes and translate findings into adoptable improvements.
• Vendor and commercial understanding: experience with vendor relationships and data agreements; work with Legal/Procurement.
• Practical capability building: create structure where it does not yet exist; start simple and iterate.

Responsibilities

• Shape the data enablement portfolio and translate business challenges into practical data, process, and governance improvements.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across NAOU, Bottlers, CONA, and enabling functions around shared priorities.
• Increase value from external data and manage end-to-end data access, acquisition, governance and use.
• Establish intake, prioritization, discovery, decision-making, and adoption mechanisms; drive follow-up.
• Collaborate with Legal, Procurement, Privacy, and Finance to translate new use cases into workable requirements.
• Build capabilities and repeatable processes that last across teams and time.

Skills

Agile methodology

Business process modeling

Change management

Cloud platform

Communication

Data flow diagram

DevOps

Digital transformation

Enterprise architecture framework

Microsoft Azure Databricks

Microsoft Office

User experience (UX)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business/Data & Analytics/IS/Engineering

Job description

Job Description Summary

Data is increasingly central to how the North America Operating Unit (NAOU) and its bottling partners understand the market, serve customers, improve execution, and make commercial decisions. Realizing that value often requires more than technology, it requires a leader who can connect business priorities, data capabilities, operating processes, and decision-makers across a complex system. The Director, Data Enablement & Standards will lead high-priority efforts that make data easier to understand, access, connect, and use across NAOU and the North America system. This leader will work across business teams, Bottlers, Data & AI, and enabling functions to identify barriers, shape practical solutions, establish clear ways of working, and move cross-functional priorities from ambiguity to sustained action. Initial areas of focus are expected to include strengthening how NAOU manages and realizes value from third-party data and advancing shared data standards across the North America system. Over time, the role may take on additional data enablement priorities where stronger coordination, common approaches, and focused leadership can help the system move faster and make better decisions. Role purpose Lead strategic data enablement priorities that require coordination across business, technical, and system partners, translating business needs into shared standards, repeatable processes, and clear accountability. The role owns the approach, coordination, and progress on agreed priorities, while business, specialist, and technical teams retain ownership of their data, decisions, and platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Shape the data enablement portfolio. Identify and prioritize opportunities where common approaches, stronger coordination, or focused leadership can unlock business value from data. Establish clear outcomes, roadmaps, decision rights, and measures of progress. Turn complex needs into practical action. Translate business challenges into achievable data, process, standards, governance, and operating-model improvements. Develop options, clarify tradeoffs, recommend a path, and move stakeholders toward decisions. Build alignment across the North America system. Bring together NAOU, Bottlers, CONA, CCBSS, and enabling functions around shared priorities. Build commitment through business value and practical recommendations. Improve how data moves from need to use. Examine the processes through which data is identified, acquired, defined, maintained, accessed, shared, and applied. Resolve unclear handoffs, fragmented ownership, duplication, and other barriers that slow progress. Advance shared data standards. Lead priority efforts to align definitions, hierarchies, attributes, mappings, and related ways of working where greater consistency creates meaningful business or technical value. Increase the value of external data. Lead and operate how NAOU identifies, acquires, governs, shares, and uses third-party data. Connect business needs, vendor capabilities, contractual rights, costs, access, consumption, and renewal decisions while maintaining appropriate business ownership. Enable responsible data access and use. Partner with Legal, Procurement, Privacy, Finance, and technical teams to translate new business, analytical, sharing, and AI use cases into clear requirements and workable decisions. Build capabilities that last. Establish practical mechanisms for intake, prioritization, discovery, decision‑making, adoption, and follow‑through. Use Data & AI tools where they can reduce friction and improve decision support while maintaining human accountability.

Education, Experience, Skills, and Behaviors

• Education. Bachelor's degree in Business, Data & Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Relevant experience. 7+ years of relevant experience in data, analytics, data management, or related business roles, including leading cross-functional initiatives, required.
• Data and analytics fluency. Understands datasets, definitions, hierarchies, lineage, quality, and business use. Can connect commercial needs with technical considerations and engage credibly with business and data teams.
• Influence without authority. Builds trust across organizations with different incentives. Makes the case for change, negotiates practical commitments, and secure buy‑in rather than relying on escalation or formal authority.
• Decision-oriented leadership. Frames problems, develops options, recommends a path, and helps stakeholders make decisions. Turns agreement into named owners, clear expectations, and follow‑through.
• Independent ownership and judgment. Determines what needs to happen next, establishes priorities, anticipate issues, and drives outcomes without detailed directions. Knows when to act, seek input, or escalation.
• Process design and continuous improvement. Can map a process across teams, diagnose root causes, and translate findings into improvements that people can adopt and sustain.
• Vendor and commercial understanding. Experience with vendor relationships, data agreements, or related commercial processes. Can identify requirements and restrictions and work effectively with Legal and Procurement specialists.
• Practical capability building. Comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist. Starts with a workable approach, tests it, and improves it without overbuilding.

Sponsored Employment Status

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.

Skills

Agile Methodology, Business Process Modeling, Change Management, Cloud Platform, Communication, Data Flow Diagram, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Microsoft Azure Databricks, Microsoft Office, User Experience (UX)

Pay Range

United States: 164,000 - 193,000 USD Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered. Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 30 Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Location & Travel

Location(s): United States of America City/Cities: Atlanta Travel Required: 00% - 25% Relocation Provided: No Job Posting End Date: November 20, 2026

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