Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

26% - 50%

Relocation Provided:

Yes

Job Posting End Date:

September 5, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Sr. Director I, Strategic Planning & Business Insights Lead

Are you a strategic powerhouse with a passion for driving enterprise-wide transformation and unlocking business value? As the Sr. Director I, Strategic Planning & Business Insights Lead, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the future of our Global Equipment Platforms (GEP), aligning cross-functional priorities and translating insights into action. This role demands a visionary leader who thrives in complexity, builds strong partnerships, and drives clarity across commercial and technical domains. You’ll spend approximately 70% of your time leading strategic planning and execution, 20% enabling platform success, and 10% driving transformation and change.  If you’re ready to lead with purpose and impact, this is your opportunity to make a difference.

What You’ll Do for Us

Lead Strategic Planning & Execution: Drive the development and delivery of GEP’s annual strategic plan, integrating cross-platform priorities and aligning with long-term business goals.Deliver Business Insights: Leverage analytics, financial modeling, and performance data to inform strategic decisions, prioritize initiatives, and optimize resource allocation.Enable Platform Success: Resolve competing priorities, support business case development, and guide the transition to a platform-as-product operating model.Champion Transformation & Change: Foster a value creation mindset, build strategic planning capabilities, and break down silos to drive cultural and operational transformation.Drive Stakeholder Engagement: Build strategic partnerships across marketing, finance, franchise, and customer/commercial teams to co-create value and accelerate growth.

Qualification & Requirements

Education & Certifications:

MBA or advanced degree in business, engineering, or related fields preferred.

Experience:

12+ years in strategic planning, transformation leadership, or value collaboration roles.Proven success in navigating complex stakeholder environments and driving enterprise-wide change.

Skills:

Strong business acumen and understanding of beverage market dynamics.Expertise in financial and business modeling, value-based decision frameworks, and global market insights.Experience in CPG or equipment industries with direct P&L responsibility.Multilingual capabilities (Spanish or Portuguese preferred).Ability to resolve organizational silos and manage competing priorities across cross-functional teams.

What We Can Do For You

Iconic & Innovative Brands: Work with a portfolio of 250+ products including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.Expansive & Diverse Customers: Collaborate with a wide range of customers from retail and grocery outlets to theme parks and global partners.Global Impact: Influence strategic planning across markets and drive transformation at scale.Leadership Development: Be part of a high-performing team that values growth, innovation, and strategic thinking.Purpose-Driven Culture: Join a company committed to sustainability, inclusion, and creating shared value across the system.

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Influencing, organization

Pay Range:

$176,000 - $199,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

30

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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