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Sales Manager

The Coca-Cola Company

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Location
Atlanta, GA
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Job overview

The Sales Manager manages customer business through strategic assessment, sales forecasting, business reviews, and beverage-strategy activation. The role leads a customer portfolio, builds executive relationships, develops growth strategies, and coordinates Coca-Cola system resources to deliver customer solutions. The company seeks a results-driven relationship builder with at least three years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SalesAccount ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCustomer LeadershipBusiness AcumenCustomer Needs AnalysisGrowth Opportunity IdentificationFact-Based RecommendationsAnnual Business PlanningExecutive Business ReviewsGrowth Strategy DevelopmentCommunicationPresentationStorytellingNegotiationInfluencingStrategic ThinkingTrend AnalysisCross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder AlignmentAmbiguity ManagementPrioritizationOwnershipAccountability

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Work Experience3+ Years Relevant Experience

Full job description

Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better-shared future.  We strive to serve our customer's businesses, refresh their guests, and grow together. As a Sales Manager, you will manage all aspects of a customer’s business, including strategic assessment, sales forecasting, conducting regular business reviews, and effectively activating and implementing the beverage strategy. We are looking for people passionate about building relationships who are results-driven and embody our leadership and growth behaviors.

What You’ll Do for Us

  • Lead a portfolio of customers by developing growth strategies that create long-term value for both the customer and The Coca-Cola Company.

  • Build deep, trusted relationships with customer decision-makers and executive leaders, serving as a strategic advisor who understands their business, priorities, challenges, and growth ambitions.

  • Conduct impactful business reviews that go beyond performance reporting to establish a clear growth agenda, align on priorities, and strengthen customer commitment to joint business plans.

  • Activate and lead cross-functional resources across the Coca-Cola system, including Operations, Marketing, and Finance to deliver integrated solutions for customers.

  • Influence senior-level customer stakeholders to gain alignment, remove barriers, and advance strategic initiatives that drive mutual business results.

  • Demonstrate ownership of your business by prioritizing opportunities, navigating ambiguity, and delivering results through disciplined planning, execution, and follow-through.

  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability while contributing positively to team performance and customer success.

Qualification & Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required.

  • 3+ years of successful sales, account management, business development, or customer leadership experience with a demonstrated track record of delivering profitable growth.

  • Strong business acumen with the ability to identify customer needs, uncover growth opportunities, and develop fact-based recommendations that create value for both the customer and The Coca-Cola Company.

  • Proven experience leading annual business planning, conducting executive business reviews, and translating insights into actionable growth strategies and measurable results.

  • Exceptional communication, presentation, storytelling, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate effectively in both customer-facing and executive-level settings.

  • Strategic thinker who anticipates customer, category, and industry trends and proactively develops solutions that support long-term business growth.

  • Demonstrated ability to lead through collaboration by activating cross-functional resources, aligning stakeholders, and driving execution across complex customer opportunities. This emphasis aligns with the existing Sales Manager role description and collaboration expectations.

  • Proven ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and operate with a high degree of ownership and accountability. This reflects qualities highlighted in your interview and leadership materials regarding thriving in ambiguity and independent business leadership.

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 6,472 open Sales Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Georgia median$90–126K/yr71 salary ranges
  • US median$19–23/hr790 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 173 open Sales Manager jobs in Georgia and 6,472 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Georgia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Sales Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,392 postings).
Education
788 of the 6,472 open Sales Manager jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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