Director, Sustainability Strategy

The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Director of Sustainability Strategy to strengthen data governance, reporting readiness, and digital solutions across its global operating units and bottling partners. You will translate business needs into practical data and IT requirements, driving improvements in data quality, traceability, and transparency to support credible reporting and performance optimization.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams and IT, you will lead the design and rollout of

Qualifications

• Strong data governance and reporting readiness experience.
• Experience translating business needs into IT requirements.

Responsibilities

• Enable stronger data, insights, and consistent governance across Coca‑Cola system.
• Lead governance processes across Operating Units and partners.
• Improve data readiness, quality, traceability, and controls for sustainability metrics.
• Translate business needs into IT requirements and support delivery with IT teams.
• Align stakeholders to develop scalable data, analytics, visualization, and reporting solutions.
• Support master data processes and data quality governance for sustainability metrics.
• Identify digitization needs and convert them into practical solutions.
• Assist rollout of digital platforms like Enablon to capture key metrics.
• Conduct testing, system validation, and troubleshoot issues as needed.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Project management

Sustainability analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Enablon

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. Our sustainability strategy guides how we engage the people and partners behind our brands and advance progress toward our environmental goals. To deliver against this ambition, we need reliable data, clear governance, scalable digital capabilities, and strong reporting readiness. The Director, Sustainability Strategy will play a critical role in strengthening the processes, tools, and insights required to manage sustainability and safety performance across Operating Units, bottling partners, and global functions. This role will partner closely Operating Units, bottling partners, Global Digital Network / IT, QSE, Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability, and Sustainability Finance. The role will translate business needs into practical, scalable data and digital solutions that support credible reporting, better decision-making, performance improvement, and progress against key company commitments.

What You'll Do For Us

• Serve as a key contributor to global sustainability and safety priorities by enabling stronger data, better insights, and more consistent ways of working across the Coca-Cola system.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of sustainability and safety data governance processes across Operating Units, bottling partners, SMEs and relevant corporate functions.
• Lead improvements in sustainability and safety data readiness by strengthening data quality, traceability, controls, and consistency across key metrics used for voluntary and regulatory reporting, including The Coca-Cola Company Sustainability Report, CSRD, CARB, and other relevant disclosure requirements.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and SMEs to define business requirements, translate them into clear IT requirements, and support delivery in partnership with digital and technology teams.
• Drive alignment across Sustainability and Safety, QSE Digital, Global Digital Network / IT, Sustainability Finance, and other relevant stakeholders to develop scalable data, analytics, visualization, and reporting solutions to achieve efficient assurance processes and reporting readiness.
• Partner with IT teams and other relevant functions to support the design, improvement, and implementation of master data processes and data quality governance for sustainability and safety metrics.
• Lead efforts to identify digitization needs across the Sustainability and Safety function and convert those needs into practical solutions that improve data connectivity, accuracy, transparency, and usability.
• Work with cross functional teams to support the development and rollout of digital platforms, including Enablon and similar tools, across Operating Units and the bottling system to capture, manage, and analyse key sustainability and safety metrics.
• Drive targeted process improvements related to master data management, data quality, reporting controls, and sustainability performance reporting, conducts testing, system validation and troubleshoot issues as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, statistics, data management, business, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in a relevant function such as Supply Chain, QSE, Sustainability, data governance, reporting, or related areas.
• Strong understanding and experience of sustainability and/or safety data processes, including data collection, validation, analysis, governance, controls, reporting readiness, and disclosure support.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into clear data, digital, and IT requirements that improve reporting readiness, data quality, and process effectiveness.
• Experience with digital platforms and tools used for sustainability, EHS, QSE, or enterprise data management; experience with analytics, AI, machine learning, or visualization tools is a plus.
• Strong project management, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work across diverse teams, functions, geographies, and organizational levels.
• Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

What We'll Do For You

• Purpose-Driven Work: We make and deliver our products and provide services with a goal of zero work-related injuries for our employees, contractors and communities. Providing our employees with a safe workplace environment is among the company’s greatest responsibilities and is part of our commitment to employees, customers and consumers.
• Broad Exposure: Gain regional and international experience across Coca-Cola operations while supporting the global execution of the Safety Strategy and key programs.
• Career Development: The role provides the opportunity to quickly gain depth and breadth of experiences and Safety knowledge, it facilities building a global network and lay the foundation for a dynamic technical career within The Coca-Cola System.