Director, Global QSE Competencies

Coca-Cola•Atlanta, GA

6d•Hybrid

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 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. The scope and impact of this role include being the enterprise owner of the QSE competency model, learning ecosystem, and capability roadmap, with direct impact on system capability, speed of learning, and execution consistency across OUs and bottlers. It enables a “feedback to capability” loop by translating governance, audit, and risk insights into targeted learning interventions and drives digital adoption and value realization for learning and knowledge platforms (e.g., Thrive, KORE). This role strengthens readiness for growth, transformation, and M&A integration through capability uplift and serves as the single point of accountability for strategic QSE communications, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and consistent, credible messaging across regions and platforms. The role leads both strategy and execution for communications and change management to strengthen engagement, drive global alignment, and elevate QSE visibility and influence internally and externally.

Requirements

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.
Experience with enterprise learning systems (e.g., Thrive or equivalent) to design scalable learning journeys.
Strong understanding of document control, versioning, and content lifecycle management (e.g., KORE or similar).
Ability to define and interpret learning and capability metrics, adoption signals, and performance insights.
Experience with digital learning formats (modular, on-demand, virtual classroom).
Proven ability to drive user adoption and behavior change in digital tools.
Ability to connect learning platforms with governance, risk, and performance systems.
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, and 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, and digital adoption.
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.