Director IT Data

The Coca-Cola Company is a 135+ years old total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. We’re constantly transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing innovative new products to market. We’re also working to reduce our environmental impact by replenishing water and promoting recycling. With our bottling partners, we employ more than 700,000 people, helping bring economic opportunity to local communities worldwide.

**Position Overview**:
**Key Results**:

- Deliver scalable solutions that unlock business value, balancing cost, complexity & timely delivery.
- Provide innovative solutions to drive business decisions, automate processes, improve user experience.
- Ensure compliance with both company and industry best practices and standards.

**Responsibilities**:

- Data Quality Assurance:

- Develop, implement & maintain strategies to assess and improve the quality of our data, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Establish standards, guidelines, and best practices for data quality.
- Actively collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and rectify data quality issues.
- Data Analysis and Reporting:

- Conduct in-depth data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
- Using data quality and reporting technology to measure, capture and report in a consistent and meaningful way across domains.
- Act as a key point of contact in stakeholder management, facilitating effective communication between technical and non-technical parties.
- Process Optimization:

- Lead process discovery workshops for stakeholders.
- Analyze existing business processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies.
- Develop the change management framework & drive alignment of metrics for optimized processes.
- Track & publish value realization & adoption statistics.
- Data Governance:

- Establish and enforce data governance policies and procedures.
- Define data access controls, data retention policies, and data security measures.
- Education & Capability Building:

- Upskilling & being a consultant to team members on data quality best practices.
- Grow a network of data owners, stewards, custodians and stakeholders to support and facilitate improving data quality and good data practices.
- Be vigilant about market developments in data and its evolutions. Bring value added improvements to organization.

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Statistics, a related field, or equivalent work experience.

**Related Work Experience**:

- 10+ years’ of related professional experience, ideally in the Consumer products industry.
- Experience leading technical groups and/or teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with data analysis tools and software (e.g., Excel, SQL, data visualization tools).
- Cognizant of data privacy & data sharing policies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to data accuracy.
- Knowledge of data governance principles and best practices.

**Qualifications**:

- Experience working in a networked and matrix organization
- Working knowledge or experience in process optimization
- Working knowledge or experience in implementing automation tools such as Workato
- Familiar with APIs & UI/UX principles.
- Proven track record in piloting and scaling IT innovation
- Ability to manage, mentor and upskill team members.
- Comfortable in both a leadership and team-member role.
- Stakeholder Management experience to senior executive levels. This role will require excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to push through ambiguity to align diverse stakeholder groups towards aligned goals.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills in English.
- Creative problem solver who thrives when presented with a challenge.

**Core Competencies**:

- Drives Innovative Business Improvements: Develops new insights into solutions that result in organizational improvements; promotes a work environment that fosters creative thinking, innovation and rational risk-taking.
- Balances Immediate and Long-Term Priorities: Seeks to meet critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.
- Delivers Results: Focuses on the critical few objectives that add the most value and channels own and others' energy to consistently deliver results that meet or exceed expectations.
- Imports and Exports Good Ideas: Relentlessly seeks, shares and adopts ideas and best practices in and outside the Company and embraces change introduced by others.
- Develops and Inspires Others: Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the performance of others toward goal accomplishments. Develops self and others to improve performance in current role and to prepare for futu