Job Description: Senior Director, CPS Capabilities
CPS (Commercial Products Supply) is a key part of the Technical, Innovation, & Supply Chain function of The Coca-Cola Company. CPS manufactures concentrates and beverage bases for sale to bottling partners all over the world. This global organization manages a network of nineteen manufacturing plants in eighteen different countries.
As the Senior Director of CPS Capabilities, you will be a part of designing, leading and implementing the capabilities strategy for CPS. This Capabilities role directs work across digital capabilities, technical capabilities with a focus on Production, Engineering, Maintenance and QSE (Quality, Safety, Environment) and contributing to the Future of Work journey. The Senior Director of CPS Capabilities will require a visionary mindset, practical and technical experience to build and implement programs to CPS business needs. Strong candidates will have an exceptional growth mindset and passion for change management and culture awareness for long-term success. Strong business acumen to lead in business collaboration with senior stakeholder and partners.
What You will Do for Us
CPS Capabilities Strategy, Programs and Leadership
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Lead CPS Capabilities Strategy digital, technical, change management and global supply chain capabilities. Flagship programs and offerings include Digital Academy, Supply Chain University, Engineering Edge, QSE Institute.
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Lead Capabilities suite of TISC Global Supply Chain programs including Supply Chain Leadership Academy (SCLX) and Supply Chain Rising (SCR).
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Lead team of functional experts and SMEs to deliver technical capabilities across strategic CPS functions of Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering and QSE and across global supply chain functions.
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Strategic program development and implementation including Digital Academy for CPS-wide, cohort driven programs for technical learning, and change management/adoption programs for strategic initiatives.
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Build and deploy strong competency/skill framework to define required skills at all levels of the organization. Support Future of Work initiatives including but not limited to future work skills strategy.
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Collaborate with senior executive leadership to align capabilities need for the organization including strong partnership with People & Culture function to build a E2E coherent strategy for CPS teams.
Key Collaborations & Change Management
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Integrate and implement comprehensive skills and capabilities roadmap for CPS including solutions from TISC, OU, Bottler and external peer network.
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Direct strategic priorities, program areas, and implementation for influencer network across all 19 plants to drive change adoption.
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Lead cross functional community of practice including best practices, training needs analysis norms, and programs at scale for CPS Global L&D of across all 19 CPS plants.
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Support CPS change management strategy including playbook and execution of CPS change management program tools, including change story and pre-and-post initiative analysis.
Metrics, systems and partner management
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Own global digital capability metrics for Digital Academy Tier 1 metrics across all 19 plants.
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Lead management of CPS LMS and all related integrations with enterprise/functional tools.
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Evaluate and monitor capability vendor relationships and internal and external partnerships to enable Transformation goals.
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Lead strategic agenda and delivery for annual Transformation leader summits to accelerate Transformation strategy development, delivery and best practice sharing.
Digital Acceleration & New Technologies
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Drive initiatives to accelerate change adoption of new systems and processes, through integrated business cases of digital, operations, and organizational capabilities.
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Design ways of working and onboarding for integrated global digital capabilities roadmap for Greenfields including onboarding to global capabilities programs and Learning Management System (LMS).
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Evaluate digital capabilities priorities for scale including but not limited to GenAI, AR/VR and simulated environments as lead by business priorities.
Preferred candidate has:
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10+ years in leading strategic people and program initiatives – degree or equivalent work experience in a global matrixed organization
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5+ years in digital transformation leadership and cross-functional global teams, with experience in training/learning & development/capabilities design
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Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Human Resources, Business Management or Technical Management
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Manufacturing experience including knowledge of food/beverage processing and related technical domain like quality or engineering
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Proven success in developing and scaling new products, programs and teams
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Strong data-driven and critical thinking skills, with knowledge of practical implementation
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Senior stakeholder management, and ability to create direction and alignment from ambiguity
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Preferably demonstrated experience in competency modelling, skill assessment, instructional design and learning development programs both at individual contributor and management levels.
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Awareness and advocate of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 opportunities and experience implementing use cases in a digital environment.
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Ability to navigate ambiguity with a growth mindset with a focus of translating strategy to implementation.
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Detail-oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with passion to improve and digitize work processes.
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Excellent project management, planning and organization skills and ability to deliver to specified deadlines.
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Ability to thrive in diverse cultural environments.
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Skilled in managing by influence and experience communicating with senior stakeholders and business and functional leaders.
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Ability to travel as needed to CPS locations, 15-20%
What We Can Do for You
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Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio has some of the most recognized brands in the world and represents over 250 products, including Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Powerade, Fuze Tea and more!
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Purpose Driven: Purpose-driven team and approach that believes in providing our employees with the tools and resources to be successful.
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Outsized Impact and Influence: We are a global organization that is at the forefront of developments in our industry and beyond. You will be able to help shape impactful solutions for CPS and which also that scale through The Coca-Cola Company
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Community of belonging: We believe in our ability to continuously grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel inspired, empowered, and engaged to bring their best to work.
Key Engineering Quality, Food Safety, Food/Beverage manufacturing, processes, TPM, Digital capabilities, Talent development and planning, Training program development, Change Management and Culture, Project Management, Problem Solving, Data and analytics, Communication and influence, Stakeholder management.
Reporting: Senior Director, QSE
Locations: Atlanta Office Center (AOC), Global CPS lighthouse locations – Singapore - Liberia, Costa Rica, Ballina/Dublin, Ireland
Career Planning, Data Analytics, Finance, Microsoft Office, Organizational Design, Organizational Systems, Skill Assessment, Skill Development, Talent Development, Talent Management, Team Coaching, Transformation Strategy, Workforce Development Training
Location(s):
Ireland
City/Cities:
Drogheda
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date:
June 18, 2026
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30
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