Director, NA Control Tower, GDI

The Coca-Cola Company•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Our North America Innovation Center sits at the heart of The Coca-Cola Company’s next chapter of growth, committed to transforming and evolving the organization, bringing people closer to the consumer, continuously raising the bar, and embracing digitalization for sustainable growth. As the Company accelerates innovation at scale, orchestrating resources, investments, priorities, and ways of working across regions is critical for delivering impact with speed, discipline, and transparency. This role seeks a highly driven individual contributor who thrives on ownership and impact, challenging assumptions and unlocking opportunities rather than maintaining the status quo. As NA Director Control Tower, you will ensure compliance with existing innovation tools and processes to drive innovation excellence and achieve TCCC strategic goals. You will continuously assess and improve tools and processes for agility, efficiency, and speed to market. You will be a key contributor to team engagement, facilitating ways of working through digitalization, and connecting with other Innovation Centres Control Towers for harmonization and synergy. This role directly accounts for NA Innovation Center OPEX and CAPEX, while globally orchestrating 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.
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.
Regional travel up to ~20%.

Nice To Haves

Master of Business Administration (MBA) or master's degree in project management (preferred, not mandatory)
Additional languages a plus

Responsibilities

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.
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.

Benefits

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.
Nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference.
Growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves.
Focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve.
A diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
Supporting the financial and personal well-being of our employees.
Empower each and every one of our employees across the globe to prioritize their career development by building capabilities, developing new skills, and leaning into new experiences.
Support and clarity on defining your own career so you can thrive.