Director, Sustainability Strategy

Coca-Cola; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company seeks a Director, Sustainability Strategy to lead data governance, strengthen reporting readiness, and drive scalable digital solutions across Operating Units, bottling partners, and global functions.

You will translate business needs into clear IT requirements, partner with cross‑functional teams including QSE, IT, Sustainability Finance, and Communications, and elevate sustainability and safety metrics through improved data quality, traceability, and visualization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, statistics, data management, or related field.
• 7+ years in Sustainability, QSE, data governance, or reporting.
• Translate business needs into clear data, digital, and IT requirements.
• Experience with sustainability data platforms and analytics tools.
• Fluent in English with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and continuous improvement of sustainability data governance across units and partners.
• Strengthen data quality, traceability, controls, and reporting readiness for disclosures.
• Define business requirements and translate to IT specifications with cross-functional teams.
• Develop scalable data, analytics, visualization, and reporting solutions.
• Drive master data management and data quality governance for sustainability metrics.

Skills

Data governance

Sustainability reporting

Stakeholder management

Project management

Data analytics

Leadership

Communication

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, statistics, data management, or related field

Tools

Enablon

Other sustainability platforms

IT requirements translation

Job description

Job Description Summary:

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-Col