Director, Global QSE Competencies

The Coca-Cola Company•Atlanta, GA

1d•$149,000 - $173,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Global QSE Competencies leads the design and deployment of enterprise-wide QSE competency building to enable consistent, high-quality execution across the system. The role defines the QSE competency model, builds a fit-for-growth learning ecosystem, and drives adoption of digital learning and knowledge platforms. This role translates enterprise strategy, governance requirements, and risk insights into practical capabilities, ensuring the skills, tools, and knowledge required to deliver safe, compliant, sustainable and high-quality outcomes. It also strategically leads and embeds QSE communication and change management frameworks to accelerate adoption and sustain capability uplift.

Requirements

Enterprise influence and stakeholder management: Ability to align diverse stakeholders without direct authority
Systems and strategic thinking: Understand interconnections between governance, risk, and capability building
Digital mindset: Leverage platforms and data to scale learning and insights
Data-driven decision making: Use metrics and insights to drive adoption and effectiveness
Executive communication (written & spoken): Clear, concise storytelling to senior leadership and global audiences
Change leadership: Ability to drive adoption in a complex, matrixed system
Program Management: Strong program leadership and disciplined execution
Human-Centered Design (designing for the needs of end-users): Learning Design and Development
Network leadership: Leading networks and fostering learning culture
Growth Mindset
Bias to action and ability to get things done
Collaboration and co-creation
Agility and flexibility to pivot quickly to adapt to dynamic business needs
Learning platforms: Experience with enterprise learning systems (e.g., Thrive or equivalent) to design scalable learning journeys
Knowledge management systems: Strong understanding of document control, versioning, and content lifecycle management (e.g., KORE or similar)
Data and analytics: Ability to define and interpret learning and capability metrics, adoption signals, and performance insights
Digital content design: Experience with digital learning formats (modular, on-demand, virtual classroom)
Platform adoption: Proven ability to drive user adoption and behavior change in digital tools
Systems integration mindset: Ability to connect learning platforms with governance, risk, and performance systems
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant QSE technical field, i.e. Food Science, Regulatory Affairs, Engineering, Environmental Science, Safety, Animal Science, or related discipline (advanced degree preferred) with experience in capability building and learning and development
Experience in technical environments, operations, or transformation roles including corporate or operating units
Proven leader with strong influencing, stakeholder alignment, and project management skills
Experience designing and scaling enterprise capability or learning programs in complex, global organizations
Demonstrated success driving adoption across matrixed environments and translating strategy into scalable execution
Strong track record in communication, change enablement, and cross-functional leadership with measurable outcomes
Ability to build sustainable capability and learning culture across diverse markets
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.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the enterprise QSE competency framework, aligned to business priorities and risks
Develop and execute a multi‑year competency strategy and roadmap
Establish scalable competency standards by role, level, and market maturity
Ensure alignment with Tiered Governance / Bottler Maturity expectations
Design and lead a globally consistent, digitally enabled QSE learning ecosystem
Own/integrate curriculum for SME led, content (i.e. KORE Master Classes) & structured learning pathways
Lead QMS training strategy, including, capability development, documentation training and standards adoption
Drive learning programs optimization (i.e. Thrive, etc) to improve engagement and effectiveness
Embed metrics to track capability uplift and learning impact
Define strategy and lead execution of the QSE knowledge sharing platform
Drive adoption, usability, and value realization across the system
Ensure single source of truth for QSE knowledge and QMS documentation, including: Document governance and lifecycle management, Version control and content integrity, Enable faster knowledge transfer and reuse of best practices
Lead QSE communications strategy in partnership with program execution teams
Develop and maintain an annual QSE communications strategy aligned with enterprise business priorities, risk focus areas, and culture initiatives
Define key QSE narratives, messaging frameworks, and communication priorities for global audiences that incorporate annual KPI dashboards and Big Rocks
Identify proactive communication opportunities to reinforce prevention, compliance, and continuous improvement mindsets based on current performance
Build and deploy a change management framework and capabilities to support effectiveness of sustainable: Governance transformation, Capability rollout, Digital adoption, etc.
Define clear narratives, engagement rhythms, and stakeholder activation plans
Ensure consistent messaging and alignment across global teams, OUs, and bottlers
Define, track and continuously improve communication and change management success measures (engagement, reach, clarity, adoption)
Support QSE due diligence and integration for M&A initiatives
Assess capability gaps and readiness risks in target organizations
Lead capability onboarding plans to ensure rapid alignment to KORE standards
Enable scalable integration of learning, tools, and knowledge platforms
Establish closed-loop learning systems linking: Audit findings, Risk signals, Performance outcomes, capabilities and change management success metrics and learning outcomes.
Translate insights into targeted capability interventions and program updates.
Drive continuous improvement of learning content, platforms, and delivery models.