Senior Manager, Technical Ops – Argentina & Uruguay (QSE)

Coca-Cola; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 1,800,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola Argentina & Uruguay is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Operations to translate market and franchise technical strategies into effective execution across bottlers, territories and plants with a focus on QSE, innovation and commercialization.

You will collaborate with bottling partners and internal stakeholders to protect product quality and food safety, strengthen environmental and safety performance, and build capabilities for sustainable execution.

Responsibilities

• Translate Technical Operations priorities into actionable execution plans for bottlers, territories, and plants, including deliverables, milestones, owners, performance indicators, risks, and follow-up routines.
• Provide technical leadership across QSE, innovation, commercialization, technical governance, and capability-building priorities, acting as the principal execution arm for the market, franchise, and plant-level technical agenda.
• Use technical insights, QSE and innovation performance data, and bottler needs to identify risks and opportunities and recommend local, bottler, plant, or workstream strategies.
• Own execution of the QSE, innovation, commercialization, technical governance, and capability priorities required to support the annual business plan for the assigned scope.
• Drive technical performance improvement with bottlers and plants, with emphasis on QSE scores, product quality and food safety, environmental and safety performance, technical compliance, commercialization readiness, and closure of critical technical gaps.
• Set challenging technical performance goals, monitor results, identify gaps, and coordinate recovery plans with bottler and internal stakeholders.
• Drive the definition, execution, and closure of corrective and preventive action plans in coordination with bottler teams and relevant TI&SC functions.
• Identify root causes and mobilize the appropriate technical expertise to resolve quality, food safety, safety, environmental, commercialization, and other technical performance issues.
• Identify, structure, and execute technical productivity and value-creation initiatives related to QSE, innovation, commercialization, process capability, and technical performance, ensuring appropriate tracking of implementation and results.
• Coordinate the execution of innovation and commercialization plans with bottlers, CPS, R&D, suppliers, copackers, and internal functions.
• Translate innovation and commercialization priorities into integrated local plans, identifying operational requirements, dependencies, risks, and readiness gaps.
• Promote and deploy digital solutions that improve QSE management, technical governance, commercialization readiness, decision-making, and technical performance.
• Act as the primary contact for QSE, innovation, commercialization, and related technical priorities in assigned bottlers or territories, coordinating troubleshooting, cross-functional corrective actions, and immediate technical responses.
• Lead the technical contribution to contingency and business continuity plans, coordinating with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, QSE, and bottling partners while full end-to-end supply planning remains with the relevant functional owners.
• Maintain an updated view of QSE, innovation, commercialization, compliance, and other technical risks, ensuring that mitigation actions are clearly defined, assigned, and followed through.
• Resolve operational issues within established strategies and governance frameworks, escalating systemic risks, significant business trade-offs, major investment requirements, or issues with broader market implications.
• Build strong working relationships with bottling partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders across QSE, R&D, SRA, GDI, CPS, Growth Functions, Finance, and other relevant functions.
• Influence operational decisions through technical credibility, data, collaboration, and a strong understanding of bottler priorities.
• Support the development of bottler capabilities in QSE systems, i

Job description

Coca-Cola Argentina & Uruguay is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Operations to translate market and franchise technical strategies into effective execution across bottlers, territories and plants with a focus on QSE, innovation and commercialization.

You will collaborate with bottling partners and internal stakeholders to protect product quality and food safety, strengthen environmental and safety performance, and build capabilities for sustainable execution.