Senior Director, Technical Operations — Bottling & Digital Excellence

The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); In loco; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Operations to accelerate adoption of best-in-class capabilities across its franchised bottling network in the United States. This leader will translate bottler challenges into scalable solutions that improve productivity, reduce costs, and strengthen KPIs.

The role requires deep beverage production knowledge, 10+ years of technical leadership, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline required; master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing, engineering, or technical operations leadership.
• Experience working as an Engineer.
• Proven success leading initiatives in a complex, matrixed environment and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Deep beverage production technologies knowledge with digital capabilities.
• Operational Excellence experience with structured problem solving (SALT, Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, SMED).
• Statistical process control and process capability analysis experience.
• Knowledge of capital planning and CAPEX process.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Mansioni

• Provide visible, enterprise-minded leadership across bottling partners and stakeholders to identify and advance best-in-class capabilities and technologies across the bottling system.
• Establish trusted feedback mechanisms, benchmarking sessions, and capability, technology, and digital gap assessments to identify opportunities and shape fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Use bottler feedback, performance data, and external insights to define and continuously refine capability and technology focus areas with the greatest potential for network-wide impact.
• Facilitate cross-bottler collaboration and councils that encourage candid exchange of challenges, lessons learned, implementation experience, and replicable best practices.
• Lead and support bottlers in diagnosing and resolving complex operational challenges through structured problem solving, root cause analysis, benchmarking insights, and proven best practices.
• Evaluate emerging and established technologies for technical robustness, scalability, user experience, implementation readiness, and measurable value across bottlers of varying size and complexity.
• Guide technology pilots with bottlers by defining success criteria, measuring outcomes, assessing user experience and realized benefits, and translating learnings into recommendations for broader system adoption and continuous improvement.
• Champion productivity initiatives, including benchmarking and value creation workshops, and ensure opportunities are converted into clear actions, accountable ownership, and measurable results.

Conoscenze

Engineering leadership

Manufacturing operations

Stakeholder influence

Data-driven decision making

Process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Descrizione del lavoro

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Operations to accelerate adoption of best-in-class capabilities across its franchised bottling network in the United States. This leader will translate bottler challenges into scalable solutions that improve productivity, reduce costs, and strengthen KPIs.

The role requires deep beverage production knowledge, 10+ years of technical leadership, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.