Senior Director, Talent & Development - Performance and Culture

The Coca-Cola Company • Atlanta, GA

3d • $186,000 - $226,500

About The Position

The Senior Director, Performance and Culture leads a portfolio of enterprise Talent and Development priorities critical to delivering the People and Culture Long Range Plan. Near-term priorities include redesigning Performance Management and defining the company’s culture and leadership behaviors. The role leads initiatives as a product owner: convening project teams, designing and guiding implementation of solutions, monitoring results, and transitioning solutions to sustainable operating models before redeploying teams to new enterprise needs.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Talent and Development, the Senior Director directly manages four individual contributors and has indirect responsibility for project team members across global People and Culture and other functions. The role establishes portfolio strategy, outcomes, roadmaps, governance, and resourcing; makes decisions about scope, priorities, investment, technology, vendors, and tradeoffs; and ensures solutions are adopted and deliver measurable business impact.

The leader mobilizes cross-functional teams and aligns global People and Culture leaders, Total Rewards, Talent and Development leaders, business sponsors, and governance forums. They lead and develop a team comprising two Senior Director I and two Director roles, personally co-leading a critical enterprise initiative while overseeing the broader portfolio. The position is based in Atlanta, United States, requires 0%–25% travel, and offers relocation. Applicants must already be authorized to work full-time in the United States without sponsorship from The Coca-Cola Company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically 8 or more years of progressively responsible experience in Talent and Development, talent management, organization transformation, performance management, culture, product management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience setting strategy and leading complex, multi-year enterprise initiatives across functions, geographies, and stakeholder groups.
• Enterprise-minded and commercially grounded, with the ability to connect people solutions to business strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, frame complex problems, make choices, and adapt as evidence and business needs evolve.
• Collaborative and influential across functions, geographies, and levels, including with senior business and HR stakeholders.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, decision support, vendor management, and change mobilization capabilities.
• Talent and Development expertise combined with a product mindset focused on user needs, value, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Inclusive leadership, sound judgment, learning agility, and a bias for practical action.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States full-time and must not require company sponsorship to continue working legally in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of enterprise Talent and Development priorities supporting the Long Range Plan, setting strategic direction, outcomes, roadmaps, governance, and resource models.
• Guide portfolio priorities through design, global mobilization, adoption and impact monitoring, establishment of sustainable operating models, and redeployment to new priorities.
• Advance performance accountability through performance enablement and differentiation, and translate company strategy into a culture narrative and leadership behaviors.
• Act as senior product owner, maintaining accountability for the business problem, intended users, enterprise value, solution coherence, and results.
• Make portfolio-level decisions about scope, priorities, minimum viable solutions, investment, technology, vendors, and tradeoffs.
• Ensure enabling tools, processes, data, governance, and experiences are designed and delivered, partnering with People Services and other experts as needed.
• Define and monitor adoption, behavior change, user experience, and business-impact measures; use evidence to refine solutions and assess readiness for sustainable ownership.
• Evaluate solution effectiveness, including improvements in performance accountability and decision speed, and remove barriers to adoption.
• Establish and lead cross-functional enterprise teams drawing on Talent and Development, HR Business Partners, People Services, business leaders, and other functions.
• Align global People and Culture leadership, Total Rewards, Talent and Development leaders, senior business sponsors, and governance forums on problems, design choices, decision rights, and outcomes.
• Navigate competing enterprise, business, geographic, and user needs; surface tradeoffs and secure timely decisions while preserving strategic intent.
• Clarify where global consistency is required and where local flexibility is appropriate in product deployment.
• Lead and develop a team of two Senior Director I and two Director roles, establish clear accountabilities, and flexibly deploy talent across the portfolio.
• Personally co-lead a critical enterprise initiative, initially the performance enablement redesign, while overseeing the broader portfolio.
• Build product ownership, strategic problem-solving, Talent and Development, stakeholder-management, and mobilization capabilities across the team.
• Manage programs, external partners, budgets, and resources spanning functions and Operating Units.

Benefits

• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position.
• Relocation provided.
• Annual incentive reference value of 50% of the role’s market-based competitive value at target.
• Long-term incentive reference value of 20% of the role’s market-based competitive value.

What This Job Offers

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