Director – Technical Innovation

🕒 September 28

🌐 Belgium, Germany, +5 more countries – Remote

🇧🇪 Belgium – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇬🇷 Greece – Remote 🇮🇹 Italy – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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The Coca-Cola Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1886

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage • Beverage • Sustainability

The Coca-Cola Company is a global beverage corporation with a rich history of over 136 years in refreshing the world. Known for its flagship product, Coca-Cola, the company has developed a diverse portfolio of over 200 brands, including sparkling beverages, hydration options, coffee and tea, juices and dairy, and alcohol-ready-to-drink beverages. Committed to sustainability, The Coca-Cola Company actively engages in initiatives like water stewardship, sustainable agriculture, and reducing sugar in its products. Operating in more than 200 countries, the company strives to make a positive social impact through diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and partnerships. The Coca-Cola Foundation supports various community initiatives worldwide. The company offers numerous career opportunities globally, emphasizing an inclusive and accessible workplace.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end execution of assigned category innovation programs • Translate category innovation strategy into executable, scalable innovation roadmaps • Lead commercialization and cross-market deployment of large-scale category innovations • Ensure innovation programs are designed for scale, repeatability, and cross-market deployment • Coordinate launch readiness with FU/Market Innovation and commercial go-to-market timelines • Act as the single point of accountability for large-scale or multi-market category innovation initiatives • Orchestrate technical execution across Marketing, R&D, Innovation Hub, Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, Bottling partners, Regulatory, and Finance • Coordinate feasibility assessments, trials, validations, and readiness activities • Own execution risks, interdependencies, and trade-offs at category level • Drive speed-to-market while maintaining quality, cost, safety, and brand integrity standards • Apply and enforce stage-gate governance and provide structured progress, risk, and value-delivery reporting • Govern technical and category coherence across markets to reduce SKU complexity and improve manufacturing and supply chain efficiency • Own post-launch performance tracking and define scalability plans • Support European markets during launch preparation and post-launch scaling • Capture and share execution learnings, best practices, and scalable delivery models • Identify opportunities from emerging category, product, packaging, and business-model innovations

🎯 Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in innovation, commercialisation, supply chain, R&D, or category leadership roles • Proven experience delivering large-scale, multi-market innovation initiatives • Strong understanding of category strategy, portfolio management, and system economics • Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional dependencies and execute within governance frameworks • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and execution mindset, with comfort operating in ambiguity • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business Administration or a related field is required • An advanced degree is preferred • Up to 10–25% travel, subject to business needs

🏖️ Benefits

• A unique opportunity to shape and deliver category innovation at scale across Europe • High exposure to enterprise innovation agendas and cross-system leadership • A role at the intersection of strategy and execution, with clear impact on growth and efficiency • A diverse, multicultural environment with strong opportunities for professional growth