Director, Data Enablement & Standards

Coca-Cola•Atlanta, GA

15h

About The Position

The Director, Data Enablement & Standards leads high-priority efforts to make data easier to understand, access, connect, and use across the North America Operating Unit (NAOU) and its bottling partners. The role connects business priorities, data capabilities, operating processes, and decision-makers across a complex system, working with business teams, Bottlers, Data & AI, and enabling functions to identify barriers, shape practical solutions, establish ways of working, and move cross-functional priorities from ambiguity to sustained action. Initial priorities are expected to 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 take on additional priorities over time. It owns the approach, coordination, and progress of agreed priorities, while business, specialist, and technical teams retain ownership of their data, decisions, and platforms. The role builds shared standards, repeatable processes, clear accountability, and practical mechanisms for intake, prioritization, discovery, decision-making, adoption, and follow-through. It uses Data & AI tools where they can reduce friction and improve decision support while maintaining human accountability.

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.
Understanding of datasets, definitions, hierarchies, lineage, quality, and business use; ability to connect commercial needs with technical considerations and engage credibly with business and data teams.
Ability to build trust across organizations with different incentives, make the case for change, negotiate practical commitments, and secure buy-in without relying on escalation or formal authority.
Decision-oriented leadership, including framing problems, developing options, recommending a path, helping stakeholders make decisions, and turning agreements into clear ownership, expectations, and follow-through.
Independent ownership and judgment, including setting priorities, anticipating issues, and driving outcomes without detailed direction.
Ability to map processes across teams, diagnose root causes, and translate findings into adoptable, sustainable improvements.
Experience with vendor relationships, data agreements, or related commercial processes; ability to identify requirements and restrictions and work effectively with Legal and Procurement specialists.
Ability to create structure where it does not yet exist, start with a workable approach, test it, and improve it without overbuilding.
Currently authorized to work full-time in the United States without requiring The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue working legally in the United States.
Skills listed: 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).

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree.

Responsibilities

Identify and prioritize data enablement opportunities where common approaches, stronger coordination, or focused leadership can unlock business value; establish outcomes, roadmaps, decision rights, and measures of progress.
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.
Align NAOU, Bottlers, CONA, CCBSS, and enabling functions around shared priorities, building commitment through business value and practical recommendations.
Examine how data is identified, acquired, defined, maintained, accessed, shared, and applied; resolve unclear handoffs, fragmented ownership, duplication, and other barriers.
Lead priority efforts to align data definitions, hierarchies, attributes, mappings, and related ways of working where greater consistency creates business or technical value.
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.
Partner with Legal, Procurement, Privacy, Finance, and technical teams to translate business, analytical, data-sharing, and AI use cases into clear requirements and workable decisions.
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.
Drive outcomes independently by establishing priorities, anticipating issues, and determining next steps; seek input or escalate when appropriate.
Map processes across teams, diagnose root causes, and translate findings into improvements that people can adopt and sustain.
Create, test, and improve practical capabilities and structures without overbuilding.