Job Description Summary:
Job Title: Senior Director, Brand Management GERMANY
Location: Germany
Reports To: Vice President, Marketing GERMANY
Role Purpose
The Senior Director, Brand Management GERMANY leads the end-to-end strategy, creation, execution, and evaluation of the brand agenda for the full portfolio of brands in Germany. As one of the most senior roles in the Frontline Marketing organization, this leader is accountable for driving sustainable growth, strengthening brand equity, and delivering market leading performance across all consumer groups, categories, and channels.
This role sets the long-term brand vision, shapes integrated strategies, and ensures worldclass execution across innovation, communication, commercial activation, and total consumer experience. The Senior Director partners directly with global category teams, Europe OU leadership, Franchise partners, bottler executives, and cross functional teams to ensure clarity, alignment, and impactful delivery.
This role also leads a multidisciplinary team of brand leaders and ensures that brand strategies and plans are sharp, insight driven, commercially grounded, and flawlessly executed in the market.
What You’ll Do for Us
1. Brand Leadership & German Strategy
Lead the total brand strategy for Germany, creating longterm and annual plans that deliver brand growth, market share expansion, and consumer relevance.
Build strategic choices based on deep consumer, cultural, and market insight.
Identify opportunities to outpace competition and lead category performance.
Ensure brand strategies are aligned with global direction and OU priorities.
2. Integrated Planning & Performance Management
Oversee development of brand plans that span media, creative, innovation, packaging, customer activation, shopper marketing, and commercial execution.
Lead performance routines with brand teams to track brand health, NSR, GP, equity, and penetration.
Drive continuous improvement across all brand building levers.
3. Innovation, Creative Excellence & IMX Integration
Guide the brand innovation pipeline and ensure relevance, differentiation, and strong execution.
Partner with IMX, Media, and Creative teams to ensure best in class creative platforms and fully integrated IMX activation.
Build culturally resonant platforms, always on content, and full funnel plans that drive measurable brand impact.
4. Commercial & Customer Collaboration
Work closely with the Customer & Commercial Senior Director to ensure brand plans are tightly integrated with customer strategies.
Shape brand and commercial plans that drive execution excellence across all channels and customers.
Support customer selling with compelling brand narratives, category insights, and activation toolkits.
5. System Leadership & Bottler Partnership
Act as the senior brand counterpart to the bottler leadership team, shaping and delivering joint system plans.
Partner with Franchise, Commercial, RGM, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to ensure cohesive system alignment.
Influence bottler decision making on innovation, investment, visibility, and local execution.
6. Cross Functional Leadership & Network Collaboration
Partner with Insights, PACS, RGM, Finance, Legal, IMX, and OU/global marketing teams to deliver aligned, high quality brand work.
Represent Germany in European network forums and contribute to global initiatives with GERMANY market insight.
7. People Leadership, Culture & Capability
Lead a team of Directors and Senior Managers across brand management and key marketing capability areas.
Develop, coach, and inspire high performing teams with clear accountability and strong succession depth.
Foster a culture of creativity, excellence, collaboration, agility, rigor, and consumer obsession.
8. Governance & Operational Excellence
Ensure compliance with brand governance, SRA & claims approval, responsible marketing, and sustainability guidelines.
Drive operational discipline in planning, budgeting, investment decisions, project management, and measurement.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
12–15 years of progressive brand leadership experience within FMCG or related industries.
German language essential
Proven experience managing large brand portfolios or multiple brand teams.
Demonstrated success in leading large cross functional teams and delivering growth.
Deep knowledge of brand strategy, insights, innovation, creative development, and IMX integration.
Strong commercial and system leadership experience.
Exceptional communication, influencing, negotiation, and leadership skills.
Experience partnering with bottlers, customers, and global/OU marketing teams.
Ability to lead through complexity and drive transformation.
What We Can Do for You
Strategic Influence: Lead the brand agenda of a major global market.
Cross Functional Impact: Work closely with commercial, media, creative, and bottler leadership.
Development & Growth: Access worldclass global marketing capability programs.
High Visibility: Engage with leaders across the global system and European OU.
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Brand Architecture, Brand Management, Brand Positioning, Brand Strategy, Channel Management, Competitive Assessments, Consumer Segmentation, Creative Process, Digital Media Strategy, Group Problem Solving, Leadership, Life Cycle Management, Marketing Strategies, Media Planning, Portfolio Management, Quantitative Research, Social Media Strategies, SWOT AnalysisLocation(s):
GermanyCity/Cities:
BERLINTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
July 14, 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
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 12-15 years of progressive brand leadership experience within FMCG or related industries.
- Proven experience managing large brand portfolios or multiple brand teams.
- German language essential.
- Deep knowledge of brand strategy, insights, innovation, creative development, and IMX integration.
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.
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