Director, Data Enablement & Standards

The Coca-Cola Company • Atlanta, GA

2d • $164,000 - $193,000

About The Position

The Director, Data Enablement & Standards leads strategic data enablement priorities that require coordination across business, technical, and system partners. The role translates business needs into shared standards, repeatable processes, and clear accountability, and owns the approach, coordination, and progress on agreed priorities while business, specialist, and technical teams retain ownership of their data, decisions, and platforms.

The leader will help North America Operating Unit (NAOU) and its bottling partners make data easier to understand, access, connect, and use. Initial priorities include improving how NAOU manages and realizes value from third-party data and advancing shared data standards across the North America system. The role may also take on further priorities where coordination, common approaches, and focused leadership can improve decision-making and help the system move faster.

The position works across NAOU, Bottlers, CONA, CCBSS, Data & AI, and enabling functions. It shapes portfolios and roadmaps, resolves process and ownership barriers, aligns stakeholders, supports responsible data access and use, and establishes mechanisms for prioritization, decision-making, adoption, and follow-through. The role uses Data & AI tools where they can reduce friction and improve decision support while maintaining human accountability.

A bachelor's degree in Business, Data & Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, is required; an MBA or advanced degree is preferred. Candidates must have at least seven years of relevant experience in data, analytics, data management, or related business roles, including leading cross-functional initiatives. The role is based in Atlanta, United States, with 0%–25% travel. The Coca-Cola Company will not sponsor employment-based visas for this position; applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States without requiring company sponsorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Data & Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in data, analytics, data management, or related business roles, including leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Fluency in datasets, definitions, hierarchies, lineage, quality, and business use, with the ability to connect commercial needs to technical considerations and engage credibly with business and data teams.
• Ability to influence without authority, build trust across organizations with different incentives, make the case for change, negotiate practical commitments, and secure buy-in.
• Decision-oriented leadership: frame problems, develop options, recommend a path, support stakeholder decisions, and turn agreement into clear ownership, expectations, and follow-through.
• Independent ownership and judgment, including setting priorities, anticipating issues, driving outcomes without detailed direction, and knowing when to act, seek input, or escalate.
• Ability to map cross-team processes, diagnose root causes, and develop improvements that people can adopt and sustain.
• Experience with vendor relationships, data agreements, or related commercial processes, and ability to identify requirements and restrictions and work effectively with Legal and Procurement specialists.
• Practical capability-building skills, including creating, testing, and improving workable structures without overbuilding.
• Current authorization to work full-time in the United States without requiring The Coca-Cola Company's employment-based visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree.
• Skills listed in the posting: Agile Methodology, Business Process Modeling, Change Management, Cloud Platform, Communication, Data Flow Diagram, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Microsoft Azure Databricks, Microsoft Office, and User Experience (UX).

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize data enablement opportunities, establishing outcomes, roadmaps, decision rights, and measures of progress.
• Translate business challenges into practical data, process, standards, governance, and operating-model improvements; develop options, clarify tradeoffs, recommend a path, and advance stakeholder decisions.
• Align NAOU, Bottlers, CONA, CCBSS, and enabling functions around shared priorities and build commitment through business value and practical recommendations.
• Examine processes for identifying, acquiring, defining, maintaining, accessing, sharing, and applying data; address unclear handoffs, fragmented ownership, duplication, and other barriers.
• Lead priority efforts to align data definitions, hierarchies, attributes, mappings, and related ways of working where consistency creates business or technical value.
• Lead and operate how NAOU identifies, acquires, governs, shares, and uses third-party data, connecting business needs, vendor capabilities, contractual rights, costs, access, consumption, and renewal decisions while maintaining appropriate business ownership.
• Partner with Legal, Procurement, Privacy, Finance, and technical teams to establish requirements and workable decisions for business, analytical, data-sharing, and AI use cases.
• Establish practical mechanisms for intake, prioritization, discovery, decision-making, adoption, and follow-through; use Data & AI tools to reduce friction and improve decision support while maintaining human accountability.

Benefits

• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position.
• Annual incentive reference value of 30% of the role's market-based reference value at target.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director