**JOB DESCRIPTION** **Senior Manager, Integrated Marketing Experience (IMX) - Design (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea)** **Reports to:** Senior Director, Integrated Marketing Experience (IMX) - Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea **Location** : Sydney, Australia ASEAN & South Pacific (ASP) Operating Unit (OU) Marketing is undergoing a step-change to deliver more balanced, sustainable growth, powered by deeper consumer intimacy, stronger integration, accelerated innovation, and data- and tech-enabled precision marketing. The organization is designed to combine local relevance with scale, shift data and technology from experimentation to competitive advantage, and operate through execution with clear accountability for impact and ROI. All roles operate within a tightly integrated OU-Market model, where the OU elevates and enables strategic growth + OU-wide platforms while markets integrate, execute, and track performance with speed and rigor while developing local content, partnership and experiences. Focus, Scope, & Impact: As an individual contributor, you will be operationalizing the IMX Design & Creative Excellence model in-market by translating OU standards and systems into high-quality, performance-ready brand experiences across physical digital, and retail commerce touchpoints. This role is the **execution engine** for design under IMX-ensuring visual identity, packaging, VIS, and creative assets are delivered with speed, consistency, quality, and measurable business impact. Deliver distinctive, consistent, and performance-led brand experiences by executing and scaling OU design systems, governance, and ways of working in-market. + Deploy and localize the **OU Design & Creative Excellence operating model** , ensuring adherence to standards, workflows, and governance across visual identity, packaging, VIS, digital assets, and artwork production, in compliance with brand safety, legal, and regulatory requirements. + Lead execution of **design excellence standards** across packaging, VIS, and in-market brand assets, ensuring brand integrity and craft across all touchpoints. + Develop and adapt **visual identity systems and packaging solutions** for local brands, ensuring relevance, modularity, and scalability across SKUs and channels. + Apply design systems across **end-to-end consumer and shopper journeys** , connecting brand experience across online and offline environments. + Execute the **creative & design model** locally-from brief to production, adaptation, activation, real-time optimization, and learning-aligned to OU frameworks. + Leverage **data, digital tools, and AI-enabled workflows** to improve speed-to-market, accuracy, and creative effectiveness. + Manage **budgets, agency rosters, pricing benchmarks, and utilization** , ensuring cost discipline and value realization. + Lead and manage **design and production agencies** , ensuring quality, compliance, speed, and value delivery. + Partner with IMX, Creative, Media, Studio X, and Commercial teams to ensure design is **performance-ready and activation-led** . + Ensure disciplined end‑to‑end P2P process management across investments, enabling timely execution, financial accuracy, compliance, and transparency. + Prepare design performance dashboards and learning insights for market and OU reviews. + Drive capability uplift across internal teams and agencies by embedding OU principles, tools, and best practices, ensuring consistent adoption and continuous improvement in design and creative execution. **What Success Looks Like:** A step-change in design speed, consistency, and effectiveness with brand assets, packaging, and experiences delivered faster, at higher quality, and with clear performance impact. The market operates with **one design system, one way of working, and one performance standard** -driving stronger brand love, shelf standout, conversion, and ROI through continuous learning and optimization. Experience & Critical Requirements + 8+ years' experience across design, brand systems, packaging, VIS, digital assets, and artwork production, in agency and/or in-house environments. + Strong expertise in visual identity systems, packaging design, retail VIS, and asset adaptation across multiple SKUs and channels. + Proven experience executing enterprise design standards and operating models within matrix organizations. + Track record of managing budgets, pricing benchmarks, utilization, and agency rosters with strong cost and value discipline. + Hands-on experience working with design and production agencies, managing quality, timelines, and compliance. + Demonstrated ability to use data, digital tools, and AI-enabled workflows to improve speed, accuracy, and creative effectiveness. + Experience collaborating across different teams to deliver performance-ready assets. + Strong operational mindset with ability to manage complex workflows and multiple stakeholders. + Passion for design craft, brand building, and continuous improvement. **Communication focus:** + Ability to translate strategy, standards, and performance needs into clear, executable design direction and briefs. + Strong relationship builder with internal teams, agencies, and production partners to drive alignment and delivery. + Ability to connect design outcomes to brand and business performance using clear, data-led narratives. + Ability to align stakeholders on quality, timelines, budgets, and trade-offs. + Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. + Ability to influence through clarity, collaboration, and craft excellence, creating belief and accountability behind IMX ways of working. **About Coca‑Cola ASEAN & South Pacific** The Coca‑Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company's purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. The Coca‑Cola ASEAN and South Pacific (ASP) operating unit serves 25 countries across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands in ASP includes Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. We also offer a variety of water, sports, juice, dairy, and tea brands including Dasani, Mount Franklin, Wilkins, AdeS, smartwater, vitaminwater, Powerade, Fuze Tea, Minute Maid and Nutriboost. We're constantly innovating and transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing new and exciting products to market. We seek to positively impact people's lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we help bring economic opportunity to local communities across the region. Learn more at www.coca-colacompany.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. The Coca-Cola Company: Refresh the World. Make a Difference We are here to refresh the world and make a difference. Learn more about The Coca-Cola Company, our brands and our purpose. **Skills** Photography; Strategic Thinking; Relationship Building; Visual Design; User Experience (UX) Design; Graphic Design; Creative Briefs; Waterfall Model; Arts Education; Adobe Illustrator; Visual Graphics (Inactive); Adobe Photoshop; UI UX (Inactive); Storyboards; Motion Graphics; Creative Directing; Agency Management; Creative Design Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15 Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target. 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.