Director of Sustainability

Atlanta, GA, United States

The Coca-Cola Company Director of Sustainability Atlanta , Georgia Apply Now Role: Director of Sustainability - Technical, Innovation, & Supply Chain (TI&SC)

Primary Job Location : (USA) Will need to be currently located in or willing to relocate to the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Travel: This role requires up to 26%-50% travel with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

What You'll Do for Us:

The scope of the role is Operating Unit (OU) operational sustainability leadership including water, carbon/climate, and World Without Waste (WWW)/packaging.

The role has direct impact and influence over the development of the most optimum OU sustainability strategy and implementation plan in line with the global sustainability strategy and TCCS sustainability commitments for World Without Waste (WWW).

Connecting end-to-end the design, collect, and partner pillars, set OU goals and roadmap for achieving WWW goals to a multilayer technical sustainability culture and capability development in collaboration as 'One Sustainability OU Leadership Team' with Public Affairs, Communications, Sustainability & Strategic Partnerships (PACS) and OU overall Sustainability leads.

Focus Areas:

The Director of Sustainability - Technical, Innovation, & Supply Chain (TI&SC) will operate and lead as an indispensable member of the OU TI&SC leadership team. As a sustainability leader role reporting directly to OU Quality, Safety, and Environment (QSE) will also be a member of the OU One Sustainability team with clear responsibility to coordinate the end-to-end technical sustainability agenda cross-functionally across QSE, PACS, and the OU Franchise teams. The following areas define the key focus of the role:

Technical sustainability strategy: As a key member of the OU TI&SC team ensure within the global sustainability strategy and commitments the most optimum and accelerated implementation of the OU sustainability strategy. Define and steward the OU technical sustainability strategy, commitments, initiatives, and prioritization to implement the OU growth agenda. Ensure accelerated progress of sustainability commitments across water, carbon/climate, and WWW/packaging while ensuring OU sustainability-by-design leadership in innovation and across the supply chain. In collaboration with the PACS and OU, sustainability leads influence the global and regional sustainability agenda and investments.

Develop OU TI&SC Sustainability strategy, create governance and controls to implement the strategy, and monitor the internal and external trends.

Determine the OU water risk management framework and priorities, work with businesses to drive water risk assessments, and monitor water risk (global/local)

Implement OU Science Based Targets (SBT) and action plans.

Water strategy for 2030 and beyond

Provide technical guidance on establishing collection schemes in markets.

Contribute to defining recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) End-to-end governance and drive supplier/business development initiatives.

Governance, compliance: Ensure all licenses to operate KORE sustainability requirements, and OU governance are in place in line with the global governance framework requirements.

Innovation: Ensure the technical sustainability innovation pipeline and technical sustainability agenda are in place, drive top and bottom-line growth, and create competitive advantage. Lead the implementation support for all technical operational sustainability aspects that protect and enhance our regional and corporate reputation.

OU sustainability network orchestration: Drive organizational alignment on operational sustainability across OUs-bottling partners and corporate QSE. Active contributor and decision maker in the Global Environmental Council. Champion KO System sustainability and overall QSE Culture and Strategies to enable business growth. Bring the external view in, drive external engagement and benchmarking, and ensure leadership presence in industry associations.

Work Focus

Create the long-term OU technical sustainability vision, drive engagement with the system partners, and lead sustainability planning to achieve goals.

Influence and shape technical sustainability investment plans including complex analysis of cost, infrastructure (e.g.: collection and recycling) developments, and strategic partnerships. Close collaboration with key stakeholders such as Public Affairs, Communications, Sustainability & Strategic Partnerships (PACS), OU- and franchise system leadership teams.

Connect strategically with external and internal networks and stakeholders to drive performance and benchmarking efforts, shape forward-looking strategies, and transform people and organizational capabilities accordingly.

Lead the OU sustainability knowledge sharing.

Develop, implement, and continuously improve the relevant performance models and systems to track risks and global mitigation plans.

Ensure that internal QSE talent is developed to drive key operational sustainability metrics within OU and bottlers.

Ensure correct and accurate reporting of sustainability metrics into a database for internal as well as external reporting.

Qualifications & Requirements

Sustainability leadership experience in leading large-scale transformation programs, and change management.

Proven successful track record in leading diverse teams. Technical/QSE operations > 10 years in key sustainability roles.

Communication Focus

Influence and alignment with stakeholders at most senior levels internally and externally, including Technical Leadership Team (TLT), Franchise Leadership Team, Global Technical, Innovation & Supply Chain (TI&SC) leadership, Bottling partners leadership, Supply Chain partners, Government, and Industry stakeholders.

Work with internal networks:

Research and Development (R&D)

Scientific and Regulatory Affairs (SRA)

Public Affairs, Communications, Sustainability & Strategic Partnerships (PACS)

Supply Chain (SC).

Define and communicate across the OU and The Coca-Cola System networked organization a sustainability culture with a "Zero is possible" mindset.

Deal predominately with situations where other parties have shared interests or opposing interests related to operational sustainability implementation plans.

Think outside-in and are well connected, involving a broader set of stakeholders in decision-making.

Communication, negotiation, and engagement with multiple key stakeholders to influence and gain alignment on the short- and long-term operational sustainability strategies and investments.

Represent OU TI&SC on external stakeholder forums and industry associations.

Skills:

Product Development; Leadership; Chemistry; Continual Improvement Process; Sustainability; Environmental Science; Microbiology Testing; Researching; Project Management; Food Sciences; Food Technology; Communication; Food Safety and Sanitation; Laboratory Testing; Data Compilation; Quality Control (QC); Green Solutions; Sensory Testing

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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