Job Description Summary:
Director, Strategic Insight & Analysis
Focus, Scope, and Impact
This role is responsible for a holistic understanding of the business landscape to localize the global “Where to play” definitions. The role will leverage data and high-quality insights, anchored in data and facts, to impact business results and growth. The concept of “end-to-end” analysis is critical for success in this role.
What You’ll Do for Us
Connect insights to frame and align on prioritization of key issues and opportunities
Connect the different research, data, and insights sources to nurture a compelling business strategy in the region
Synthesize data and insights from all Functions and Platform Services to delineate choices that inform Operating Unit strategic priorities
Enhance local strategy and contribute to development of global strategy
Analyze/Benchmark/rationalize the strategy based on local considerations
Support Country Strategy Leads by helping them leverage insights across multiple data points to localize and enhance the Country plans
Build future knowledge capabilities for the operating unit and for the Global Enterprise
Interface and provide thought leadership with Platform services, global teams, and functions to secure the right data and new methods for developing knowledge
Work Focus
Ability to partner with senior leaders to develop, localize, enhance, and deploy insights that drive strategic decision-making at the Operating Unit level and across functions.
Ability to identify noise from signals in a saturated data environment. Converges contextual data from multiple sources into specific perspectives. Understands the different sources of data required to drive choices and solutions to the business.
Ability to not only sufficiently analyze but also to link together the whole – “connect the dots” between multiple sources of data and analyses.
Communication Focus
This role is responsible for communicating internally across different leaders to effectively disseminate the synthesized insights that support decision making.
This role will be the key connector of the Strategy Function with Platform services (PS), and therefore, will be responsible for leading conversations between functions and data source integration.
This role will also require communication with Bottling Partner leadership as part of building future insight capabilities for the System, such as creating a systemic view of the challenges and opportunities to better align the Company and Bottling Partners.
Qualifications & Requirements
10 years of Business and/or functional experience in Research/Strategy/Analytics related areas. Proven leadership trajectory and influencing a senior leadership team
Broad expertise in:
Synthesis and storytelling to translate data and insights into powerful business stories
Problem framing and problem-solving capabilities to better direct research and analysis requirements; comfort with ambiguity
Critical thinking around industry and competitive assessment: business and execution strategy
AI/machine learning basics to explore innovation in analytical methodologies
Intermediate to advance analytics foundations to read, interpret and challenge different analytical tools
Understand continuous tracking methodologies, and recurring analysis methodologies
Research design fundamentals (sampling, statistics, hypothesis definition, and evaluation)
Systemic thinking: integrating different pieces to create a whole picture
Facilitation skills and business acumen to drive better conversations into practical applications
What We Can Do for You
Provide a dynamic and fast-paced operating environment that is squarely focused on capturing data-driven growth opportunities.
Opportunities for your work to directly impact on-the-ground business operations via the networked organization. Opportunity to influence and shape the overall strategy of the global enterprise.
Offer “Freedom within a Framework” and a general preference for the “next” vs. traditional. Permission to push the organization in exploring a wide range of new insights-generating methodologies. Ample room for whitespace thinking.
An inclusive team environment; a “learning organization” as opposed to a “know-it-all organization.”
Provide an expansive breadth and depth of merit-based personal growth opportunities.
Skills:
Analytics Software, Communication, Competitor Analysis, Customer Insights, Data Mining, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Influencing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Long Term Planning, Microsoft Office, Professional Presentation, Relationship Building, Risk Mitigation Strategies, Stakeholder Management, Storytelling, Strategic Thinking, Syndicated Research, Tactical Planning, Waterfall ModelLocation(s):
TürkiyeCity/Cities:
IstanbulTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
June 4, 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
- 10 years of business and functional experience in research, strategy, or analytics
- Proven leadership trajectory
- Experience in problem framing and problem-solving
- Critical thinking around industry and competitive assessment
- AI/machine learning basics
- Intermediate to advanced analytics foundations
- Understanding of continuous tracking methodologies
- Research design fundamentals
- Systemic thinking capabilities
- Facilitation skills and business acumen
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.
