Senior Director, Business Insights – Istanbul, Turkey

Senior Director, Business Insights

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Additional Locations: Dubai, AE
Job ID: R-121517
% of Travel: 00% – 25%
Job Type: Full time
Relocation: Yes
Post Date: June 12, 2025

As a Business and Finance Insights Senior Director for Eurasia Middle East Operating Unit, you will be responsible for providing guidance and insights into Strategic Planning for the region, which includes framing the messaging to our various stakeholders regarding our priorities and strategic plans as well as business performance against those plans. The stakeholders include cross-functional leaders across Eurasia Middle East and at Corporate as well as our bottling partners.

The successful candidate will work with empowerment on a fast-paced team, operate with strong attention to detail and desire to learn, and continuously evolve and improve work through analysis, collaboration, and iteration.

What You’ll Do for Us 

Working closely with the rest of Planning, Competitive Analysis & Insights team, this role will:

Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the Operating Unit, including defining Operating Unit volume budget targets and operational metrics
Orchestrate end-to-end volume planning process for Operating Unit, working cross functionally inside the organization.
Lead end-to-end Eurasia Middle East Operating Unit ABP financial planning process
Analyze local macro-economic trends & market analysis
Supports broader Finance organization in insights generation, storytelling and impactful presentations.
Serve as business owner for 360 Business Performance platform, KPIs, and data definitions
Lead the digitization and automation agenda of Finance, create self-service tools for the stakeholders to speed up insight to action by connecting internal, bottler and syndicated data, and responsible for transforming the organizational way of working in Finance, enabling the company to become more agile and focused on key priorities
Partner across the team and broader Operating Unit to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:
Coordinate with the Financial Planning Director to prepare & provide local business plan insights & assumptions on volume & industry growth
Forecasting: Analyze volume forecasts, develop and discuss insights with stakeholders, and plan takeaways
Define Operating Unit volume targets and requirements,
Business Performance analysis and presentations to support performance management routines
Analyze business performance and implications, capture & discuss takeaways with key stakeholders
Partner internally to effectively manage Financial Planning and Performance Management Routines, as well as to build alignment on key initiatives and metrics, with a focus on communication to:
Operating Unit President
Operating Unit CFO and Operating Unit Planning, System Economics Team ,Finance Directors
Franchise Units
Other Operating Unit leadership teams
Qualification & Requirements 

Bachelor’s degree Finance or related field required, MBA preferred.
10+ years Finance / RGM / Commercial / Strategy / Consulting, with deep expertise in multi-functional disciplines including strategic planning, financial and business analysis, and/or performance management
Extensive leadership and management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
Must possess exceptional communication skills (story telling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability.
Strong collaboration skills and particular strength in ‘connecting the dots’ across multiple topics, data sets, etc. 
Experience in project management; change management; process development/improvement
Experience with data management methods, analytics deployment and orchestration tools, database and visualization tools for customer facing applications are needed. 
Understanding optimization and computational concepts behind analytics algorithms is a plus.

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.


We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.


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