Director, NA Control Tower, GDI

Our North America Innovation Center sits at the heart of The Coca-Cola Company’s next chapter of growth. We are committed to transforming and evolving our organization and ambitions — bringing our people closer to the consumer, continuously raising the bar, and embracing digitalization to enable sustainable growth.

As the Company accelerates innovation at scale, the ability to orchestrate resources, investments, priorities, and ways of working across regions is increasingly critical to delivering impact with speed, discipline, and transparency. We are looking for a highly driven individual contributor who thrives on ownership and impact. This role is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about challenging assumptions and unlocking opportunities.

Job purpose summary

As NA Director Control Tower, you will ensure compliance to existing innovation tools and processes to drive innovation excellence and achieve TCCC strategic goals. You will continuously assess/improve tools and processes to ensure agility, efficiency, and speed to market. You will be a key contributor to the team engagement in facilitating ways of working through digitalization, connect with the other Innovation Centres Control Tower to bring harmonization and leverage synergies.

This role carries direct accountability for NA Innovation Center OPEX and CAPEX, while acting as the global orchestrator of Innovation Center budgets. You will consolidate investment views holistically—including President’s Office, Coke/Sprite, and Process teams—to enable informed trade‑offs and priority setting for the GDI President and senior leadership.

What You’ll Do

NA Innovation Center Activities

(Primary focus on NA operations, performance, and resource allocation)

• Set up and manage tool and routine to track and monitor NA resource allocation, bring visibility to leadership to facilitate efficient resource allocation aligned with priorities across OU’s and Global/local categories.
• Manage the NA Innovation Centre OPEX and CAPEX budget to enable to deliver regional and global priorities.
• Track, monitor, and analyse NA Innovation Center performance metrics in collaboration with NA TISC and Marketing PMO. Define, track, monitor and analyse additional performance metrics specific to the NA Innovation Center. Report gaps vs plan to leadership to enable to pivot with agility and deliver our commitment. 
• Lead the design and execution of NA Innovation Center site visits, ensuring agendas are aligned to business priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Lead NA Innovation Sessions across Operating Units, in partnership with OU connectors, to promote cross‑pollination of best practices and maximizing impact on the innovation pipeline. 
• Coordinate NA technical post‑project reviews and ensure proper documentation to drive continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain an escalation board to highlight risk of delay to OU and leadership.
• Document and share NA Innovation Center successes to increase visibility of achievements and impact.
• You will shape how innovation is planned, funded, tracked, and continuously improved—ensuring agility, transparency, and alignment with enterprise strategy—without direct people management authority, but with significant influence across NA partners and senior leaders.

Global GDI Orchestration Activities

(Enterprise‑wide coordination, alignment, and standardization)

• Consolidate a holistic Innovation Center investment view globally, orchestrating OPEX/CAPEX inputs from APAC, EMEA, LATAM and NA—while they retain local budget accountability.
• Integrate spend visibility across President’s Office, Coke/Sprite, and Process teams, enabling enterprise‑level insight and alignment.
• Support the GDI President with clear, forward‑looking insights on budget performance, risks, and investment trade‑offs.
• Co‑lead, together with other Innovation Center Control Towers, the Innovation Center Way‑of‑Working network, enabling cross‑center exchange of best practices, standards, and operating models.
• Coordinate and maximize tax and grants initiatives globally, collaborate with relevant government agencies to maximize incentives and support for TCCC innovation efforts.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or master's degree in project management (preferred, not mandatory)
• 8–10 years of experience in beverage/food industry
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills across diverse cultures.
• Proven experience operating in complex, matrixed environments with senior level stakeholders across regions.
• Ability to:

• Champion digital tools and automation to improve speed, transparency, and decision quality.
• Enterprise mindset with the ability to connect strategy, investment, and execution.
• Financial and analytical acumen with experience managing and/or orchestrating OPEX and CAPEX.
• Exceptional stakeholder influence skills—able to drive alignment without direct authority.
• Comfort operating amid ambiguity, making informed decisions with incomplete information, and managing risk.
• Systems thinker who anticipates downstream impacts and optimizes for the enterprise, not silos.
• Coach and enabler who elevates others’ effectiveness across functions and regions.

• Fluent in English; additional languages a plus.
• Regional travel up to ~20%.

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company’s sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Chemistry, Communication, Continual Improvement Process, Data Compilation, Environmental Science, Food Safety Management, Food Sciences, Food Technology, Green Solutions, Laboratory Testing, Leadership, Microbiology, Product Development, Quality Control (QC), Researching, Sensory Testing, Waterfall Model

Pay Range:

$149,000 – $173,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

30

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.

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% – 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

May 4, 2026

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.

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