Job Description Summary:
Job Description Summary:
The Coca-Cola Company, an iconic brand known around the globe, is on the hunt for a strategic Consultant, Marketing - EPICS. This role is at the heart of our marketing strategy, focusing on cultivating and managing relationships that transcend traditional sales channels. The Consultant will play a crucial part in harnessing partnerships across various passion points like sports, music, live experiences, licensing and culture marketing to meet our ambitious strategic objectives.
Strategic Intent:
The EPICS team is responsible for identifying, creating, amplifying, and scaling compelling passion points and brand assets that support category and business objectives.
The Consultant, EPICS will support the implementation and activation of key partnerships including ICC, IPL, Coke Studio Bharat, celebrity-led programs, and other strategic marketing platforms. The role will also support selected global sports partnerships and operations initiatives, including FIFA, the Olympic Games, and other major sporting events, ensuring flawless execution of contractual rights and brand activations.
This role requires extensive collaboration across Host OUs, Host Markets, Host Cities, bottlers, customer teams, category teams, and enterprise functions to deliver integrated and effective partnership programs.
Key Responsibilities
• Support the planning and execution of sports, music, entertainment, and culture partnerships aligned with brand and business objectives.
• Manage day-to-day coordination with external partners including agencies, sports bodies, music platforms, talent representatives, and event organizers.
• Help deliver integrated activation plans across consumer touchpoints, including experiential, digital, customer, and retail channels.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including IMX, CCTM, Sparkling, Nutrition, Hydration, Emerging Categories, PACS, Legal, Finance, Digital, GSAP, and customer teams to ensure seamless program execution.
• Support governance and operational delivery of partnership rights, assets, approvals, and timelines.
• Support the Licensing program
• Build collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enable effective partnership execution.
• Assist in evaluating partnership opportunities and post-campaign performance, including business impact, consumer engagement, and ROI metrics.
• Stay informed on emerging sports, music, entertainment, and culture trends to help identify relevant opportunities for the business.
Functional Competencies
• Ability to work effectively across diverse cultures, backgrounds, and teams in a highly collaborative environment.
• Strong understanding of the cricket ecosystem and broader sports and entertainment landscape.
• Capability to translate strategic partnership objectives into engaging consumer experiences and activation programs.
• Experience working with agencies, partners, and third-party vendors.
• Foundational project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship management skills.
• Understanding of The Coca-Cola Company system, including bottlers and cross-functional ways of working, is preferred.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to assess partnership effectiveness and identify optimization opportunities.
• Adaptability and curiosity to evolve with changing consumer and cultural trends.
Key Interactions
• Agencies and production partners
• ICC and sports federations
• Music platforms, labels, festivals, and talent teams
• Host OUs, markets, bottlers, and Global EPICS teams
• Category and customer teams
• Legal / Business Affairs
• Finance
• GSAP
• PACS and Digital teams
Qualifications & Requirements
• Master’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field. MBA preferred.
• 4-6 years of experience in partnership marketing, brand marketing, sports marketing, entertainment marketing, or related fields.
• Experience supporting integrated marketing activations and cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Strong organizational and operational management skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to evaluate and support partnership opportunities with a business and consumer-first mindset.
• Agility and adaptability in a fast-paced and evolving marketing environment.
What We Can Do for You
• Global Brand Exposure: Work on some of the world’s most recognizable sports, music, and cultural partnerships.
• Cross-Functional Experience: Collaborate with diverse teams across markets, categories, and functions within The Coca-Cola system.
• Dynamic Work Environment: Be part of a fast-paced, creatively driven team focused on delivering impactful consumer experiences.
• Career Growth Opportunities: Build expertise in strategic partnerships, experiential marketing, and global brand ac
Skills:
Location(s):
IndiaCity/Cities:
GurugramTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
YesJob Posting End Date:
August 6, 2026Our 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.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications, or related field
- MBA
- 4-6 years of experience in partnership marketing, brand marketing, sports marketing, entertainment marketing, or related fields
- Experience supporting integrated marketing activations and cross-functional stakeholder management
- Strong understanding of the cricket ecosystem and broader sports and entertainment landscape
- Experience working with agencies, partners, and third-party vendors
- Foundational project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship management skills
- Analytical mindset to evaluate partnership effectiveness and identify optimization opportunities
- Understanding of The Coca-Cola Company system, including bottlers and cross-functional ways of working
- Ability to work effectively across diverse cultures, backgrounds, and teams
The Coca-Cola Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Coca-Cola Company and has not been reviewed or approved by The Coca-Cola Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a standout, combining a 401(k) match with a company-funded cash-balance pension and an employee stock purchase plan match that together materially increase long-term package value.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and feature-rich, including national medical coverage plus specialized add-ons like virtual care, second opinions, oncology navigation, fertility support, and chronic-condition programs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are outlined with structured vacation accrual that increases with tenure and a holiday program that includes both set and floating days.
The Coca-Cola Company Insights
What We Do
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. In addition to the company’s Coca-Cola brands, our portfolio includes some of the world’s most valuable beverage brands, such as AdeS soy-based beverages, Ayataka green tea, Dasani waters, Del Valle juices and nectars, Fanta, Georgia coffee, Gold Peak teas and coffees, Honest Tea, innocent smoothies and juices, Minute Maid juices, Powerade sports drinks, Simply juices, smartwater, Sprite, vitaminwater and ZICO coconut water.








