Senior Director, Global Workplace Portfolio

At The Coca-Cola Company, we are seeking a leader who will serve as the primary point of accountability for the Global Real Estate and Workplace (GRW) team across the global headquarters: Atlanta Office Campus (AOC), metro Atlanta office locations, and TISC laboratory spaces globally. This role combines senior-level stakeholder engagement with hands-on operational leadership, supporting business leaders—including the C-suite and TISC leadership—by ensuring physical environments enable business performance.

The Senior Director, Global Workplace Portfolio is responsible for aligning workplace and real estate plans, investments, and services with business needs and ensuring effective execution across the portfolio. The role oversees day-to-day operations at the AOC, leads a small internal team, manages external service providers, and is accountable for service delivery, performance standards, and continuous improvement. Financial responsibility includes operating and capital budgets, forecasting, cost control, contract oversight, and financial reporting.

This role operates in a fast-paced environment and requires a leader who can balance strategic thinking with action. The successful candidate will act as an integrator across diverse and sometimes competing priorities—making decisions, driving alignment, and moving work forward. While serving as a primary point of contact for senior leadership, this leader must also be comfortable rallying teams and partners, resolving issues, and delivering results through influence and execution.

What You’ll Do For Us

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnership

· Serve as the primary GRW relationship lead for senior executives at the Atlanta Office Campus (AOC), metro Atlanta locations, and the Technical Innovation & Supply Chain (TISC) organization.

· Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with business leaders to understand needs, align priorities, manage expectations, and resolve workplace and real estate issues.

· Act as an integrator across functions and perspectives, facilitating decisions and driving alignment when priorities differ.

Portfolio & Service Delivery

· Own the planning, delivery, and performance of workplace and real estate services for the AOC and metro Atlanta office locations, ensuring services meet agreed standards, SLAs, budgets, and timelines.

· Represent GRW as the physical space and infrastructure partner for TISC laboratory spaces globally, ensuring facility requirements are understood, prioritized, and supported (GRW does not operate laboratory functions).

Team & Vendor Leadership

· Lead and develop a small internal team of functional leaders.

· Provide direction and oversight to third-party service providers and project teams, holding partners accountable for performance, service quality, and outcomes across a highly outsourced delivery model.

Strategy, Planning & Decision Support

· Partner with executive leadership and enterprise workplace teams to inform real estate and workplace decisions that support business performance.

· Partner with the GRW Portfolio Planning and Delivery Team on portfolio planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis across a 3–5-year horizon, balancing cost, risk, flexibility, and business needs.

· Provide clear, data-driven recommendations and trade-offs to support leadership decisions across the portfolio lifecycle.

Financial & Governance Accountability

· Lead annual business planning and Opex/Capex budgeting for the AOC in close coordination with the Global Workplace Planning & Portfolio team.

· Manage financial performance across the portfolio, including forecasting, cost control, contract oversight, and financial reporting.

Project & Operational Oversight (Metro Atlanta)

· Serve as a senior point of escalation for operational and project-related matters across the Metro Atlanta portfolio, stepping in as needed to remove obstacles and drive timely resolution for high-priority efforts.

Headquarters Operations (AOC)

· Accountable for the amenities (dining, wellbeing, office services) at the Atlanta Office Campus (AOC).

· Maintain senior-level awareness of facilities management and project delivery at the AOC, working through third-party providers and internal partners to coordinate escalation, ensure follow-through, and close the loop with stakeholders when challenges arise.

What This Role Is / Is Not

This role is:

· A senior business partner and integrator who maintains situational awareness across the Metro Atlanta portfolio and TISC engagements.

· A primary point of contact for senior leaders who helps surface concerns, align the right internal teams and third-party providers, and drive follow-through.

· Accountable for orchestrating resolution—ensuring the right people are engaged, actions are taken, progress is monitored, and stakeholders are kept informed through closure.

· A leader who operates effectively within a highly outsourced delivery model, working through service providers such as CBRE rather than directly performing facilities management or project execution.

· Responsible for portfolio-level outcomes, financial stewardship, prioritization, and decision support.

This role is not:

· A hands-on facilities manager or day-to-day operator of buildings, labs, or services.

· The individual personally solving technical, maintenance, or construction problems.

· The owner of laboratory operations or business functions within the space.

· A purely strategic or advisory role without operational engagement or accountability.

· A single-site role—this position spans multiple locations, partners, and stakeholder groups

Qualifications & Requirements

Required

· Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.

· 10+ years of experience in corporate real estate, workplace, facilities, or related operational leadership roles.

· Experience leading workplace and real estate operations in a large, complex office or campus environment; headquarters experience strongly preferred.

· Proven ability to lead teams and manage a highly outsourced service delivery model.

· Strong working knowledge of real estate, project management, and facilities management practices.

· Solid financial acumen, including operating and capital budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and business case development.

· Ability to engage effectively with senior leaders and communicate operational, technical, and financial topics in clear business terms.

· Demonstrated ability to balance relationship management with execution in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Preferred

· Experience supporting technical, R&D, or laboratory-adjacent environments from a facilities or infrastructure perspective.

· Experience working across regions or countries and navigating multi-country business dynamics.

· Track record of driving operational improvement and standardization through collaboration and influence.

· Professional certifications (e.g., corporate real estate, project management, facilities management, LEED).

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.

Pay Range:

$172,000 – $197,000

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:

April 13, 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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