Senior Director, Executive Recruiting

Coca-Cola HBC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta is seeking a Senior Director of Executive Recruiting to lead end-to-end executive searches across operating units and corporate functions. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, strengthening leadership pipelines and succession outcomes in a multi-market environment.

The role requires deep executive search expertise, credibility with senior leaders, and the ability to operate in a matrixed, partner-driven setting with strong commercial judgment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading executive searches in-house or at an agency.
• End-to-end search lifecycle including market research and negotiation.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and boards.
• Strong credibility in matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead senior-level executive searches from strategy through onboarding.
• Design robust, insight-driven search strategies for global talent.
• Advise leaders on talent solutions, succession planning and leadership pipelines.
• Define candidate profiles, calibrate leadership requirements, target markets.
• Proactively source, assess, and develop executive prospects.
• Present offers and negotiate complex terms to closure.
• Share market intelligence and hiring recommendations with stakeholders.
• Deliver high-quality updates to senior leadership.

Skills

Executive recruitment

Senior leadership assessment

Market mapping

Succession planning

Stakeholder management

Offer negotiations

Talent advisory

Business & financial acumen

Cross-functional collaboration

Global/multi-market experience

Job description

Job Description Summary: The Senior Director, Executive Recruiting will lead and deliver executive-level searches across operating units and corporate functions, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and bottling partners. This role owns end-to-end executive search execution and plays a critical role in strengthening leadership pipelines and succession outcomes across a complex, multi-market system. The successful candidate will combine deep executive search expertise with strong commercial judgment, credibility with senior leaders, and the ability to operate confidently in a highly matrixed, partner-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver senior-level executive searches across operating units and corporate functions, from search strategy through offer acceptance and onboarding transition.
• Design and execute robust, insight-driven search strategies that identify, engage, and secure high-impact executive talent globally.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert in executive recruiting, including market mapping and leadership consulting in support of succession planning and leadership pipeline development.
• Advise and influence senior leaders on talent solutions for new, evolving, and strategically critical businesses, categories, and functions.
• Partner closely with hiring leaders to define candidate profiles, calibrate leadership requirements, and align on target markets and talent archetypes.
• Proactively source, engage, assess, and develop executive-level prospects into high-quality candidates.
• Build and maintain deep external talent networks and industry relationships to create sustained access to priority leadership populations.
• Lead client update sessions, search reviews, and finalist debriefs, providing clear market intelligence, risk assessment, and hiring recommendations.
• Conduct rigorous candidate assessment, due diligence, and reference checking for shortlisted executives.
• Develop and present offer proposals and lead complex offer negotiations through to successful closure.
• Contribute to the executive recruiting knowledge base by sharing market intelligence, industry trends, competitive insights, and emerging leadership c capabilities.
• Deliver a consistently high-quality experience for both candidates and senior stakeholders.
• Communicate complex perspectives and recommendations clearly and persuasively with senior executives.
• Build credibility quickly with internal leaders and external bottling partners, maintaining appropriate process discipline while adapting to business and market realities when required.
• Act as a true thought partner to executive leadership on leadership strategy, not only on individual searches.
• Prepare and deliver high quality candidate update reports, market intelligence briefs, and search progress documentation for senior leaders, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timely insight throughout each engagement.
• Prepare and deliver high quality candidate update reports, market intelligence briefs, and search progress documentation for senior leaders, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timely insight throughout each engagement.
• Build credibility quickly with internal leaders and external bottling partners, maintaining appropriate process discipline while adapting to business and market realities when required.
• Build credibility quickly with internal leaders and external bottling partners, maintaining appropriate process discipline while adapting to business and market realities when required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience leading executive searches within an in-house executive recruiting function and/or a leading executive search firm.
• Proven ability to manage the full executive search lifecycle, including market research, candidate development, senior-level assessment, offer structuring, and negotiation.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate and influence effectively with senior leaders, boards, and external partners.
• Highly developed stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships that drive timely and high-quality hiring outcomes.
• Demonstrated capability to influence at key decision points in the search process, including candidate profiles, target markets and companies, shortlist composition, and offer strategy.
• Strong judgment, problem-solving capability, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving, and highly confidential environments.
• High level of discretion, professionalism, and ethical standards.
• Strong understanding of executive labor markets, competitive talent dynamics, and the implications of market trends on search strategy.
• Solid business and financial acumen, including an understanding of business performance drivers and how executive talent impacts enterprise outcomes.
• Experience in consumer goods, retail, and/or technology sectors is strongly preferred.
• Experience operating in complex, multi-market and partner-based business models is a distinct advantage.
• Prepare and deliver high quality candidate update reports, market intelligence briefs, and search progress documentation for senior leaders, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timely insight throughout each engagement.
• Proven ability to produce polished, accurate, and well structured documentation, including candidate materials, search reports, and executive ready deliverables, maintaining a consistently high standard of quality.

The Coca‑Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca‑Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Pay Range: United States: 170,000 - 193,000 USD Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Location(s): United States of America City/Cities: Atlanta Travel Required: 00% - 25% Relocation Provided: No Job Posting End Date: September 25, 2026

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