Job Description

Job Description Summary:

About the role:

The Director, Commercial Frontline role plays a critical part in driving this ambition forward.

As a strategic leader within our Franchise network, you will be the key commercial partner for the Coca‑Cola system in your market, bringing commercial priorities to life and ensuring end-to-end integration across plans and processes. This role is about enabling successful marketplace execution through thoughtful strategies in pricing, pack architecture, channel development, and route-to-market solutions. Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, you will partner closely with bottlers, franchise leadership, and marketing teams to activate commercial levers that influence sustainable growth.

The ideal candidate combines commercial acumen, system knowledge, and strong business orientation with advanced interpersonal and influencing skills. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders—including senior bottling partners and key customers—delivering strategies that balance affordability, premiumization, and digital enablement. This is an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to Coca‑Cola’s purpose of refreshing the world and making a difference while shaping competitive and consumer-driven routes to market in a dynamic environment.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Lead the integration of the commercial agenda across the Franchise and bottling system, ensuring business priorities align with structured plans for sustained growth.
• Drive development and delivery of the Annual Business Plan (ABP) for the Franchise, embedding commercial strategies and execution frameworks that deliver measurable value.
• Prioritize and activate quarterly commercial initiatives while aligning cross-functional inputs to business challenges and opportunities within the market.
• Shape the right Balanced Brand/Pack/Price Mix for the Franchise, taking into account affordability, premium positioning, and local consumer trends.
• Partner with marketing counterparts to ensure commercial integration into campaign development and market execution processes.
• Serve as the key system liaison representing commercial perspectives in internal forums and across critical bottler discussions to maximize alignment and impact.
• Drive capability building by leveraging specialized teams in RGM, RTM, and Digital to address emerging market needs and optimize commercial performance.
• Utilize system economics and advanced channel strategies to navigate dynamic scenarios and deliver commercially robust solutions.
• Support customer engagement initiatives by aligning business plans with customer expectations and collaborating to unlock channel growth opportunities.
• Ensure that execution standards and commercial metrics within the Operating Unit are achieved through close alignment with Franchise leadership.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, or related field; an advanced degree is advantageous.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in commercial roles, with deep expertise in revenue growth management, segmentation, route-to-market, and channel strategy.
• Proven track record in delivering end-to-end commercial strategies and operational excellence in a complex system or multi-stakeholder environment.
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, complemented by financial and market fluency to enable sound commercial decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner effectively with senior internal stakeholders, bottling partners, and major customers.
• High proficiency in leveraging data-driven insights for commercial planning and execution, with a working knowledge of AI-enabled and digital solutions.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with experience leading cross-functional collaboration in a networked organization.
• Advanced understanding of consumer behavior, system economics, and customer value creation to drive both growth and profitability.
• Proven ability to balance transformational thinking with practical, hands-on problem-solving in fast-changing regulatory and competitive contexts.
• Familiarity with franchise or bottler operational frameworks is strongly preferred.

What We’ll Do for You

• Provide you with a platform to shape commercial strategies that drive measurable business results and fuel market competitiveness.
• Offer opportunities to engage in cross-functional collaborations that expand your influence and deepen industry expertise.
• Enable access to cutting-edge commercial tools, insights, and capability-building programs to support professional growth.
• Empower you to make a tangible impact on our system and customers through integrated solutions that enhance long-term value creation.

Skills:

Brand Management, Category Management, Communication, Competitor Analysis, Digital Marketing, Finance Strategy, Financial Forecasting, Integrated Marketing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Leadership, Marketing Campaigns, Marketing Strategies, Media Planning, Microsoft Office, People Management, Pricing Management, Product Roadmapping, Promotional Strategies, Sales Analysis, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Teamwork, User Experience Analysis

Location(s):

Nigeria

City/Cities:

Lagos

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

September 20, 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.