Senior Manager, Tech Delivery Lead

The Coca‑Cola Company is evolving into a more digital‑first, data‑driven enterprise to fuel sustainable growth, increase speed to market, and unlock new sources of value. Rapid advances in technology, data, and AI create a unique opportunity to accelerate the KO system’s next chapter of growth by reimagining our core competitive advantages. Building on a strong foundation of modernized infrastructure, global digital experiences, early data capabilities, and proven use cases, we are now shifting from early wins to scaled, end to end impact on growth, productivity, and efficiency. 

This next phase moves us from an analog world to a fully digitized one, powered by a digital growth engine that embeds data, technology, and AI into our most critical business domains. Success will require more than technology implementation, it demands a strategic transformation of core capabilities, a domain based, product centric operating model, and a cultural shift toward experimentation, data and technology fluency, and seamless partnership between business and digital teams. 

Job Description Summary 

The Senior Manager, Technology Delivery Lead is responsible for leading the successful delivery, deployment, and operationalization of enterprise digital products across the Operating Unit. This role serves as the technical delivery leader, partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure digital solutions are implemented, adopted, and optimized to deliver measurable business value. 

The role provides technical leadership throughout the product delivery lifecycle, overseeing solution implementation, market deployment, quality assurance, release management, and production readiness. Working closely with Global Digital Services, Operating Units, and bottling partners, the Technology Delivery Lead ensures global products are successfully localized where needed while maintaining alignment with enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and product roadmaps. 

Success in this role requires strong technical leadership, delivery management, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to bridge business priorities with engineering execution across a complex, global environment. 
 

Responsibilities include: 
 

•  Lead the end-to-end technical delivery and deployment of enterprise digital products across the Operating Unit. 

• Provide technical leadership for regional product implementations, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and business objectives. 

• Partner with Product Managers to translate business requirements into technical delivery plans and implementation roadmaps. 

• Analyze local business needs and identify regional configuration, localization, and feature enhancement requirements to maximize product adoption. 

• Coordinate engineering, quality assurance, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable digital solutions. 

• Oversee product validation, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and quality assurance activities to ensure successful product releases. 

• Lead release planning, deployment management, production readiness, and post-launch stabilization activities. 

• Identify and proactively manage delivery risks, technical dependencies, and implementation issues across multiple initiatives. 

• Partner with Global Digital Services, Operating Units, bottlers, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery, adoption, and business value realization. 

• Monitor delivery performance, operational health, service quality, and user feedback to drive continuous improvement. 

• Support Agile delivery practices, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release coordination across cross-functional teams. 

• Evaluate emerging technologies, automation opportunities, and engineering best practices to improve delivery efficiency and operational excellence. 
   
  ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT 
   

• Leads regional technology delivery for the consumer growth platform and respective enterprise digital products that support strategic business priorities and transformation initiatives. 

• Ensures consistent execution of delivery standards, quality practices, and release management processes across the Operating Unit. 

• Improves product adoption, operational stability, and business value through effective implementation and stakeholder engagement. 

• Partners with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Digital Operations and business teams to accelerate successful product deployments and feature and functionality development and integrations for the consumer growth platform. 

• Influences delivery planning, implementation strategy, and operational readiness across multiple products and markets. 

• Provides technical leadership to delivery teams while fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. 
   
  INNOVATION & COMPLEXITY 

• Solves complex implementation and delivery challenges involving local and enterprise platforms, multiple stakeholders, agencies, vendors, service providers and cross-functional dependencies. 

• Balances global product standards with regional business needs to ensure scalable and effective deployments. 

• Drives continuous improvement in delivery processes, quality assurance, release management, and operational support. 

• Leverages automation, DevSecOps, AI-assisted delivery tools, and modern engineering practices to improve delivery speed and reliability. 

• Resolves technical and operational issues while maintaining focus on business outcomes and customer experience. 
   
  COMMUNICATION & INFLUENCE 

• Partners with Product Managers, Engineering leaders, Digital Operations, Enterprise Architecture, and business stakeholders to align delivery priorities and execution plans. 

• Communicates delivery status, implementation risks, dependencies, and business impacts to senior leadership. 

• Facilitates cross-functional planning sessions, release governance, and implementation reviews. 

• Builds trusted relationships across Global Digital Services, Operating Units, bottlers, and external partners to drive successful implementations. 

• Influences delivery decisions through technical expertise, structured problem-solving, and a strong customer and business focus.
   
  Experience & Qualifications 

• 5-7+ years of experience in technology delivery, software engineering, digital transformation, program management, or enterprise technology leadership. 

• Proven experience delivering enterprise digital products across multiple markets, business functions, or geographies. 

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, DevSecOps, quality assurance, and release management. 

• Experience working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders. 

• Demonstrated success managing complex implementations, technical dependencies, and cross-functional delivery teams. 

• Experience leading testing, deployment, production readiness, and post-implementation support activities. 

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, integration patterns, and modern software delivery practices. 

• Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and structured problem-solving skills. 

• Experience within consumer products, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, or global enterprise environments preferred. 

• Expertise with Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft 365, project and portfolio management tools, and enterprise collaboration platforms.