Location(s):

South Africa

City/Cities:

Johannesburg

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

July 11, 2024

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

EPICS is a team that is at the epicentre of culture, passion point marketing, and live experiences. With consumer centricity at the core, EPICS team strive to create and enable meaningful experiences with our brands through the things that our consumers and customers deeply care about.

What You will Do For Us

Helping the system to maximize Return On Investment around partnerships and their activations, leveraging them as catalysts to accelerate our business growth.Brief, manage, and optimize the appointed activation agencies and other stakeholders working to deliver projects.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)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.Provide leadership, expertise, and direction to all aspects of the activations in collaboration with related teams.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 OrganizationLead and steer the execution of global and local brand and passion point marketing strategies/concepts across all categories.

Role Requirement

Bachelor’s degree required. Master desired7 years of relevant business/marketing experience.Expertise in assets and experience in marketing. Deep knowledge of events, activations, and sponsorshipHigh 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 countryAbility to lead multiple external relationships.Ability to work in Agile cross-functional teams.Ability to lead and develop large and multi-market teamsStrong negotiation skills desirable

Skills:

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

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.