Bunmi Adeniba, Marketing Director at the Coca-Cola Company

Bunmi Adeniba, Marketing Director at the Coca-Cola Company

Bunmi Adeniba is an experienced marketing professional and commercial operator with cross-functional experience in brand building, new category development, innovation management, and quality management. She is the Marketing Director at the Coca-Cola Company, the first Vice President of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN), and the Regional Vice President, Africa of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

Bunmi’s over 20 years of experience spans leadership roles with different multinationals. She started her career in the hospitality industry in 2001 as a Food and Beverage Manager, before joining the management trainee scheme of Cadbury Nigeria, a well-defined training program that saw her assume Quality Control Management roles at the company between October 2002 and September 2009. In May 2010, Bunmi rose to the position of Assistant Brand Manager and joined Unilever in 2014. At Unilever, she worked as Category Manager, Skin Cleansing and Household Care; Category Manager, Oral Care; and as Marketing Director and Division Lead, Home care Ghana and Nigeria from January 2014 to January 2022.

Bunmi holds an MBA from Hult Business School, Boston, and a certificate in Strategic Marketing Management from Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA.

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A 2018 CSC Leader, (a global program for exceptional senior leaders selected from government, businesses, and NGOs across 53 countries) Bunmi is passionate about women empowerment and raising phenomenal leaders in the marketplace. She has contributed to women’s development by speaking at conferences and partnering with initiatives geared towards achieving this goal.

Bunmi has been recognised as one of the fifty Ladies in corporate Nigeria by Leading Ladies Africa, Brand communicator’s top 50 women in marketing and communication in Nigeria, 9to5Chick’s top 100 women, and the Most Innovative Woman In Marketing by Brandessenceng. She has been featured on RefinedNG, BusinessDay, Marketing Edge, and other national media outlets.

Bunmi is a fellow of the National Institute of Marketing (NIMN) and holds membership positions at different organizations including the Institute of Directors (IOD), Chartered Institute of Marketing UK (MCIM), Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), and the American Society of Quality (ASQ). She is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional (CDMP) from the Digital Marketing Institute.