Position Overview:

The Senior Manager, Product Development for Hydration & Advanced Hydration on Global Devlopment Innovation team is responsible for facilitating front end innovation and consumer led technology strategy as well for helping to build a robust 3+ year innovation pipeline of global and regional reach in partnership with Marketing, Strategy, Human Insights, Supply Chain, Research-to-Experimentation and SRA. Category Pipelines are expected to deliver sufficiency to drive incremental growth from Innovation, as well as continuity, and productivity solutions. Accountable for category product and package competitive benchmarking in key markets ensuring Coca-Cola portfolio remains highly competitive. Orchestrator of multiple TI&SC function subject matter experts and leaders, such as Process Development, Technical Consumer Research , Packaging, SRA, Quality Safety Environmental, Supply Chain, Flavor Manufacturing , Commerical Product Supply to identify fit-for-purpose concepts and prototypes, which could be then deployed through viable sustainable solutions into the markets by the Research & Development Center teams.

Focus Areas

• Key areas of focus of this role can be summarized as follows:

• Help to develop innovation strategies (product, package, and equipment) in partnership with Category teams to deliver 3+ year pipeline for growth, productivity, and continuity plans for category.

• Collaborate closely with Research to Experimentation team to design and develop scalable solutions for next generation of category products via rigorous due diligence (clinical trials, consumer research and other scientific studies).

• Collaborate with global SRA and Functional ingredient research team for H&AH hard claims roadmap design and implementation.

• Collaborate with global and regional SRA teams to get ahead of novel ingredients approval through appropriate agencies (FDA, EFSA etc.).

• Develop and deliver robust Ingredient Productivity Pipeline in partnership with R&D centers.

• Ensure technical efforts on category are informed by consumer insights, business models and important technology trends to deliver advantaged solutions.

• Monitor external environment to identify threats and opportunities for category.

• Utilize fit for purpose experimentation processes to test and validate opportunities with consumers to build out the pipeline.

Job requirements & Related Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Chemistry, chemical engineering, nutrition or related field is required, Master's degree or PHD is preferred

• 7+ years beverage industry experience in multi-national company.

• Prefer at least 4+ years product development with expertise in hydration and advance hydration category.

• Prefer at least 2+ research strategy or RD innovation strategy related working experience

• Prefer to have diversified knowledge including product development, packaging, process, supply chain, consumer research, regulation etc

• Experience collaborating within global teams and working across multiple geographies.

• Enterprise and strategic mindset

• Demonstrated ability to connect across organization lines, regardless of reporting relationships.

• Capable of identifying consumer's need, translating consumer need to technical problems, and identifying the leading technical solutions for developing the technical innovation pipeline.

• Capable of managing multiple projects in parallel and deliver against the workplan. Independently of identify the implementation plan against the project goals by leverage internal and external resources and expertise.

• Project Management: Knowledge of project management principles and the ability to apply the principles, tools, and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute projects or work plans to ensure successful completion (e.g., on time, within budget).

• Ability to travel globally up to 25% of time.

Competency:

• Strategic thinking and implementation

• Functional Skills Required in Technical Competency and Credibility

• Business Acumen, Strong Leadership, Management, and Influencing Skills

• Effective English communication skill

Leadership Behaviors:

• DRIVE INNOVATION: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business (encompassing everything from continuous improvement to new product and package innovation).

• COLLABORATE WITH SYSTEM, CUSTOMERS, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS: Develop and leverage relationships with stakeholders to approximately stretch and impact the System (Company and Bottler).

• ACT LIKE AN OWNER: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.

• INSPIRE OTHERS: Inspire people to deliver our mission, demonstrate passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible.

• DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS: Develop self and support others' development to achieve full potential.

Growth Behaviors:

• GROWTH MINDSET: Demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

• SMART RISK: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

• EXTERNALLY FOCUSED: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.

• PERFORMANCE DRIVEN AND ACCOUNTABLE: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

• FAST/AGILE: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.

• EMPOWERED: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.

What We Can Do for You

Experiences on Innovation strategy and technology : With a global organization and the opportunity to learn and grow, to participate the exciting journey of designing, managing, and implementing global innovation pipeline through collaboration with cross-functional teams internally and externally;

Compensation & Benefits: Competitive benefits package that start on day one of employment.

Skills:

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