Director, Digital Strategy

The Coca-Cola Company•Atlanta, GA

22h•$164,000 - $193,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Director, Digital Strategy to translate its digital ambition into actionable plans and operating rhythms. This role supports the Head of Digital Strategy by building the analytical foundation for digital investments, developing and maintaining the strategy and roadmap, and managing the cadence and scorecard to keep the agenda on track. The position requires transforming enterprise-level strategy into practical, rigorous, and executable plans. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on strategist capable of moving from problem identification to board-ready recommendations, framing ambiguous challenges, building business cases, prioritizing initiatives, and translating decisions into roadmaps for execution. This role involves close collaboration with the Head of Digital Strategy and partners across the transformation organization, functions, and markets. The candidate should possess strong structured problem-solving skills combined with a deep understanding of digital, data, and AI, and be comfortable managing details such as prioritization models, value cases, roadmaps, and quarterly business reviews.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in digital or technology strategy, corporate strategy, or a related field, including time spent translating strategy into execution
Strong structured problem solving: able to frame an ambiguous problem, build the analysis, and land a clear, well-supported recommendation
Solid fluency in digital product, data, and AI concepts, with enough depth to work credibly with product, engineering, and data science teams
Experience building business cases and prioritization models, including sizing value and weighing trade-offs across competing initiatives
Experience contributing to roadmaps or a product or transformation portfolio, including dependencies, sequencing, and progress tracking
Excellent communication and storytelling, with a track record of producing executive-ready materials and influencing without authority
Highly organized and self-directed, comfortable owning the detail and the operating mechanics of a fast-moving agenda
Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, economics, or a related field
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.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree in a relevant field
Top-tier strategy consulting experience, or a blend of consulting and in-house digital or strategy work
Experience in consumer products, retail, or another large, decentralized, multi-market organization with a franchise or bottler model
Experience supporting governance, funding, or scorecard mechanisms for a digital or transformation portfolio

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the strategy fact base: develop the analysis, market and competitive scans, and business cases that inform where The Coca-Cola Company invests in digital, and turn them into clear recommendations for the Head of Digital Strategy and senior leaders
Translate enterprise strategy into actionable digital capabilities and roadmaps: bridge the enterprise strategy and digital strategy; maintain the domain taxonomy and the end-to-end roadmap as priorities, dependencies, and capabilities evolve
Prioritize use cases and proofs of concept: apply clear criteria to rank digital and AI opportunities by value, momentum, and speed to impact, and recommend which proofs of concept to pursue, which to scale, and which to stop
Run the operating cadence: own the mechanics of the strategy-to-execution rhythm, including business reviews, leadership forums, and value-tracking checkpoints, so decisions are well prepared, captured, and followed through
Support funding and governance: prepare the materials and analysis behind investment decisions, decision rights, and outcome-based funding, and help run the governance forums that allocate resources to the highest-value initiatives
Maintain the digital scorecard: track transformation progress and the business outcomes driven by digital, surface the insights that inform reprioritization, and prepare clear, accurate reporting for senior stakeholders
Partner across the system: act as a strategy partner for product, engineering, data, functions, and markets, building the alignment and shared understanding that turn strategy into adoption
Tell the story: produce crisp, executive-ready narratives and materials that make complex digital choices clear and decision-ready