Director, Supply Chain Warehouse Architect

The Coca-Cola Company • Atlanta, GA

6d • $171,000 - $198,000

About The Position

The Director, Supply Chain Warehouse Architect leads warehouse solution design and supports strategy execution across global supply chain operations. The role partners with business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements, understand operational priorities, and translate business needs into actionable technical deliverables. It ensures solutions align with business processes, governance expectations, and SAP standards while promoting innovation, scalability, and flexibility.

The position designs and improves warehouse technology solutions that increase productivity and operational performance. It develops solutions using SAP capabilities such as EWM, WCS, SAP-PE, and SAP-TM, alongside Microsoft platforms, integration services, automation technologies, and appropriate third-party applications. The role balances standardization, enterprise architecture, operational flexibility, user experience, cost, implementation complexity, and long-term supportability.

The director leads cross-functional problem solving, solution validation, testing, cutover, deployment, and hypercare. The role also drives stakeholder and end-user change management, documentation, training, and communication, while anticipating risks and coordinating mitigations to protect warehouse operations and business continuity. The position is based in Atlanta, United States, and requires 26%–50% travel. Relocation is not provided.

Requirements

• Proven experience in IT strategic planning, organization, development, and execution.
• Experience in business process re-engineering and standardizing business processes across entities.
• Ability to plan and prioritize business needs and allocate resources, balancing internal capabilities with external consultants.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-based leadership style; experience with Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated success leveraging technology to meet business objectives, with consistent delivery and continual process improvement.
• Forward-thinking ability to anticipate and communicate potential impacts of emerging technologies.
• Results-oriented leadership, including negotiation, responsiveness, collaboration, and consensus-building experience.
• Ability to manage change, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Current understanding of IT management disciplines and technical tools, and ability to assess emerging technologies and lead their strategic application to business.
• Advanced program management skills, strong influence and communication abilities, and capacity to lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to work in a virtual and international environment and collaborate with users, stakeholders, and team members across workstreams.
• Multiple end-to-end ERP implementations, with a focus on logistics processes.
• SAP S/4HANA baseline configuration experience in EWM and understanding of ASRS, AMR, and AGV integration; communication protocols including API, IDOC, and Telegram; SD and P2P integration; and Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot, and AI capabilities for data integration, analytics, automation, and application development.
• Ability to connect Microsoft solutions with SAP and other enterprise platforms using APIs, middleware, OData, REST, and related integration tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, information technology, computer science, engineering, business administration, or a related field.
• 7+ years in an IT leadership role, including the ability to deliver IT solutions for a global consumer goods business.
• SAP Certification in the EWM module.
• Fluent in English.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States full-time and must not require company sponsorship for continued employment authorization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve warehouse technology solutions that increase productivity, improve operational performance, and support scalable warehouse execution.
• Partner with warehouse operations, supply chain, IT, SAP teams, automation vendors, Microsoft technology partners, and third-party providers to understand needs, manage expectations, and translate requirements into technical designs and delivery items.
• Define warehouse solution designs using SAP EWM, WCS, SAP-PE, SAP-TM, related integrations, Microsoft platforms, integration services, automation technologies, and fit-for-purpose third-party applications.
• Make technical design decisions that balance process standardization, SAP best practices, enterprise architecture, operational flexibility, user experience, cost, implementation complexity, and long-term supportability.
• Lead problem solving across warehouse processes and system integrations, identify root causes, coordinate technical and functional teams, evaluate options, and drive timely issue resolution.
• Plan and support solution validation, testing, cutover, deployment, and hypercare to ensure quality, user adoption, and production stability.
• Drive change management for new warehouse processes, system capabilities, automation changes, and ways of working, ensuring documentation, training, and communication are clear and practical.
• Identify delivery, integration, operational, and adoption risks and dependencies; escalate issues as needed and implement mitigation actions to minimize disruption and protect business continuity.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and facilitate collaboration across workstreams in a virtual and international environment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and well-being programs.
• Global learning programs and leadership development programs.
• Exposure to global technology leaders and emerging technologies and techniques.
• Agile work environment that empowers employees to experiment, iterate, and innovate.
• A range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director