Senior Director I, NA Stills, GDI

Job Description Summary:

Our North America Innovation Center sits at the heart of The Coca-Cola Company’s next chapter of growth. We are committed to transforming and evolving our organization and ambitions — bringing our people closer to the consumer, continuously raising the bar, and embracing digitalization to enable sustainable growth. 
 
We are looking for a transformational leader to build, inspire, and empower high-performing teams that fuel the innovation pipeline with bold ideas and turn them into real-world impact. This role is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about setting direction, unlocking opportunity, and driving valuable breakthrough innovation at scale. 
 
You will lead diverse teams with deep product development expertise to deliver a strong and balanced portfolio of meaningful innovation and productivity and business continuity — accelerating growth and shaping the future of the organization. 

Scope and Impact 

As  Senior Director, Stills, GDI, you will lead a portfolio of initiatives related to Innovation in Tea and Coffee, aiming to bring new products to market for growth, renovate existing products for superiority, profitability, and regulation compliance.  

You will lead/orchestrate the execution of the most impactful product development initiatives on Productivity & BC (across categories), to accelerate bottom-line growth, keeping our business continuity and bringing productivity to life through advanced formulation, testing, and commercialization. You will lead a team of scientists, sharing deep technical expertise, and helping shape team strategy and ways of working. You will partner closely with cros s-functional stakeholders to drive local and regional projects, applying strong technical judgment, market insights, and digital tools to ensure products meet consumer expectations, quality standards, regulatory requirements, and manufacturing realities. 

Focus Areas 

• Partner with Global Marketing and GDI category to fill category Innovation pipeline with new initiatives aligned with consumer insights. 

• Work as part of functional team to align on objective (productivity & business continuity) and success criteria’s with NA OU Innovation Hub, NA OU TISC/Supply Chain and Global category Leads.  

• Foster a culture of experimentation within the organization, manage the budget effectively, and ensure strategic initiative alignment with our overall goals and business plans. 

• Align on the short- and long-term prioritized initiatives for the category in NA with  

• Global Marketing and GDI category 

• OU Marketing, TI&SC, and Technical C