Kaan Akyiğit

Marketing Director @ The Coca-Cola Company | Driving Brand Strategy and Growth

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Strategic marketing leader with 12+ years of hybrid experience across global FMCG giants and high-growth tech startups — delivering brand strategy & execution, digital growth, and commercial transformation across Türkiye, MENA & EMEA. Proven track record in whitespace innovation, portfolio strategy, disruptive campaigns, and topline growth across diverse categories and complex ecosystems. Recognized for turning deep consumer insights into actionable impact and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams. I operate at the intersection of structured brand building and agile digital acceleration — blending the discipline of multinational marketing with the speed and creativity of tech-driven scale-ups. This hybrid background across both legacy and emerging business models enables me to future-proof brands and unlock scalable, long-term value.

Experience

  • Marketing Director, Turkey at The Coca-Cola Company
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Leading team of flavored sparkling soft drink category

  • Getir (Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • Head of Marketing - n11
      Jun 2023 - Jan 2024 · 8 mos

      n11 is one of the leading marketplace e-com platforms of Turkey and owned by Getir. Leading n11's end-to-end marketing function with a team of 13.

    • Head of Marketing & Category Management
      Feb 2023 - Jun 2023 · 5 mos

      Leading GetirÇarşı | GetirLocals' 2 different departments: marketing and category management. - Directly reporting to CEO - Leading team of 9 Marketing: Leading GetirÇarşı | GetirLocals' marketing team and responsible for end-to-end brand equity - from brand development strategy to brand building executions- Category Management: Leading GetirÇarşı | GetirLocals' category team and responsible for 15+ different categories’ PnL & business management.

    • Marketing & Category Manager
      Sep 2022 - Feb 2023 · 6 mos

  • Senior Brand Manager at pladis Global
    Sep 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs

    Responsible for whole Savory Category with 5+ brands (Çizi, Krispi, Pretzel sticks “Ülker Çubuk Kraker”, Ülker Simit Cracker, Taç Cracker)

  • Brand Manager (North Africa, Middle East, Turkey Region) at Unilever
    May 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Unilever Spreads category / Upfield Unilever has sold spreads category to Upfield, part of one of the largest Private Equity funds KKR. Upfield is the #1 plant-based foods company in the world. Responsible for NAMET Retail Brands (Sana, Becel,Flora,Mazola,Blue Band) and innovation pipeline in 5-year-horizon, in Turkey, Middle East and North Africa countries. Leading Relaunch/Launches of global and local brands (Sana,Becel, Flora, Rama, Mazola) in Asia,Middle East,Africa and Turkey (15+ countries)

  • PepsiCo (Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • Senior Assistant Brand Manager, Juice & Energy
      Nov 2015 - May 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Brand Assistant, Juice
      Jun 2014 - Nov 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos