Senior Director Enterprise Skills Strategy and Transformation

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

September 27, 2024

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

The Senior Director, Enterprise Capability (Skills Strategy & Transformation) is the strategic and programmatic leader that drives the short and long term roadmap towards skills-oriented talent and development practices, as well as designs and implements the change management initiatives that will transform the business to this approach. This role will define the Skills strategy, build the roadmap, own key projects that set the foundations for all talent practices, and oversee the strategic connection of all critical skills projects across People & Culture and Capabilities initiatives. Additionally, this role will own the complete definition, design and implementation of a holistic change management, communication and engagement strategy for the identified Skills Strategy scope. The journey to a skills-oriented future will happen over many years, with continuous evolution of the destination as technology and industry best practices evolve, so this role and its remit will also continuously evolve. While the scope is primarily in design phase in 2024, the evolution may include ownership or partnership on skills-oriented practices that are either all new or evolving from current state.

Skills, the learned ability to perform an action through training and practice, are a critical component of Capability development at Coca-Cola. When aligned with knowledge and mindset, skills help power our Capability promise to our people, to invest in our associates to make them more successful and employable, and to our business, to deliver a competitive advantage for the company’s future through our people.

As the leader of our organizational Skills Strategy & Transformation, this role combines strategic thought leadership, internal client consulting and highly skilled program management into one role responsible for leading network partners in collaborative design, development and delivery of a comprehensive Skills plan and change management strategy and implementation. Sitting on the Enterprise Capability team within the Talent & Development COE in the People & Culture function, this role provides an exciting opportunity for an individual who thrives in a highly-networked environment where success is achieved through and with others.

In this role, the individual will have the opportunity to grow and develop as a networked leader and as a talent development professional, by combining industry research and perspective with internal strategy and ambition. The Skills Strategy & Transformation leader should have strategy/consulting, talent development, and capability experience. A successful candidate will thrive in bringing structure to ambiguity, have a bias towards action and possess the ability to create impact at scale.

Everyone is a leader at Coca-Cola. This role is an individual contributor without direct reports but has significant responsibility for leading cross-functional project teams, working closely with peers across connected talent practices, and influencing senior leaders across People & Culture and the networked Capability community.

Key Accountabilities

Skills strategy design and roadmap

• Develop the Coca-Cola Skills Strategy and roadmap in partnership with leading external talent consultants and skills technology companies as well as internal Talent, People & Culture and Capability leads to connect the skills-focused strategy to all ongoing and future projects
• Simplify external and internal research and points of view into one strategy for how Coca-Cola will bring a skills-oriented talent management practice to life
• Develop a roadmap of all skills-oriented initiatives, including what will and will not be included within the broad talent development cycle
• Determine what foundations are required to make the skills roadmap successful
• Assess the impact of the strategy on workforce equity, in partnership with the Global DEI COE
• Stay connected with industry trends, bringing in best practices and pivoting as needed

Program Management

• Lead a networked team as the product owner to conduct a skills strategy foundations pilot, measure results and determine next steps for scale
• Select, implement and launch a long-term skills platform vendor partner
• Partner with and lead members of the People Services team, including HR Tech, Program Manager, Project Manager, Talent Delivery and Learning Delivery to design and execute projects
• As needed, manage short term experience