Senior Director, Creative Strategist & Content

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Tokyo, JPN
In-Office
Senior level
Food
The Role
Lead and coordinate Coca-Cola's creative content strategy in Japan, overseeing content development, agency partnerships, consumer insights, and team leadership to enhance brand equity and effectiveness.
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Job Description Summary:

Lead the OU Creative Contents Community and serve as CCTM Content Lead, owning Coca-Cola TM’s end-to-end creative strategy and content development for Japan.

This role sets the vision, governance, process, and standards for all creative content across the organization, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and culturally relevant content, experiences, and engagements. 

You will unify internal teams, agency partners, and cross-functional stakeholders into a single, high-performing Creative Contents Community that strengthens Coca-Cola’s brand equity and brand love, while driving habit building, W+ recruitment, and commercial impact. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

Creative Contents Community Leadership 

  • Lead and orchestrate the entire Creative Contents Community across JSK, acting as the single point of leadership for creative content excellence, alignment, and capability building 

  • Establish and own creative content vision, operating model, governance, processes, and standards to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across all touchpoints 

  • Serve as the CCTM Content Lead, with ultimate accountability for all CCTM content strategy, development, and delivery across channels and experiences 

  • Build a culture of collaboration, innovation, and creative excellence across internal teams, agencies, and external partners 

  • Build digital/marketing tech capability to generate tech enabled contents (e.g. AI generated contents) for broader and customized target 

Creative Strategy & Content Excellence 

  • Author the overall TM Creative and Content Strategy, ensuring strong alignment with business objectives, brand priorities, and global platforms 

  • Drive the development of best-in-class creative briefs across all pillars, ensuring clarity of insight, idea, role of content, and success metrics 

  • Ensure delivery of high-quality, insight-led content ecosystems, going beyond film to include digital-first, experience-led, and community-driven platforms 

  • Champion innovation in both what content is created and how it is created, leveraging data, technology, and new creative models 

Consumer Insight, Data & Innovation 

  • Lead internal and agency teams in identifying deep consumer, cultural, and behavioral insights and translating them into compelling creative and communication strategies 

  • Drive the creation of experience- and digital-based ecosystems that collect, enrich, and activate 1PD, enabling long-term consumer relationships 

  • Identify and implement innovative ways to measure creative effectiveness, linking brand impact to behavioral and commercial outcomes 

Agency & Partner Leadership 

  • Lead agency briefings and manage senior-level partnerships, building Japan and South Korea’s strongest, most collaborative creative ecosystem 

  • Ensure agencies operate as true extensions of the Creative Contents Community, consistently raising the creative bar and inspiring the broader System 

  • Collaborate with Global teams to adapt and elevate global platforms through strong JSK insights, delivering locally resonant communication that drives both Brand Love and Brand Value 

Cultural Leadership & Ecosystem Building 

  • Lead the development of sustainable, ownable, long-term engagement platforms that drive efficient reach, recruitment, and frequency 

  • Collaborate with internal and external partners (e.g., Music, Fashion, Artists, Culture Makers) to embed Coca-Cola deeply and authentically into culture, strengthening leadership and relevance 

People, Governance & Resource Management 

  • Lead, coach, and develop the next generation of creative leaders within the JSK Creative Team and broader Creative Contents Community (11 Team members) 

  • Own performance evaluation, capability building, and career development for the JSK Creative Team 

  • Hold ultimate responsibility for DME allocation related to content creation and agency fees, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and ROI 

 

Skills:

Location(s):

Japan

City/Cities:

Tokyo

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

September 29, 2026

Our 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

  • Significant experience in creative strategy and content development
  • Proven track record in managing large teams and partnerships
  • Expertise in digital marketing and consumer insights
  • Ability to innovate using data and technology
  • Strong leadership and collaboration skills

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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The Company
HQ: Atlanta, GA
88,900 Employees
Year Founded: 1892

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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