Senior Director, Artd, Global Development

**What You’ll Do for Us**:
**KEY WORKING PARAMETERS**

**Scope & Impact**

Lead the top and bottom-line growth agenda for multiple fast growing highly segmented and complex ARTD global categories and brands. This role is responsible for building and strongly drive a robust 3-5-year innovation pipeline of global and regional reach in partnership with the GDI Category network, Innovation and Technology Strategy, Global Equipment Platform, Global Marketing Category Lead, OU Innovation Hubs, OU Marketing Innovation Leaders, Strategy, Human Insights, Global Supply Chain, and Research-to-Experimentation.

Global Category Pipelines are expected to deliver sufficiency to drive +$306M Incremental KO GP impact from innovation. This leader will be accountable for category product in the TOP 15/40 markets, ensuring Global ARTD portfolio remain highly competitive.

This role is a member of the EMEA Innovation Center Leadership Team.

**Focus Areas**

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

Global Scope
- Develop product innovation strategies to deliver 3-5-year pipeline for growth plans for Global ARTD category
- Collaborate closely with Research to Experimentation and Global Supply Chain teams to design and develop scalable solutions for next generation of category products.
- Responsible for identifying and enabling the execution of the next RtE pipeline that can help step change of the growth of the categories.
- Collaborate deeply with global and regional SRA teams to get ahead of novel ingredients approval through appropriate agencies (FDA, EFSA etc.) and unlocking the use of new breakthrough ingredients in ARTD Category.
- Deliver impactful programs to deliver against Category Strategy in long range plans and beyond.
- Partner with GDI Innovation Center peers to leverage project management routines to deliver global innovations with local consumer relevance.
- Ensure technical efforts on category are informed by consumer insights, business models and important technology trends to deliver advantaged solutions.
- Establish and maintain process and routines for cross functional inclusion in technical innovation strategy development, planning and project execution.
- Monitor external environment to identify and action on threats and opportunities for the category.
- Define and orchestrate the network for optimal people resourcing to deliver global pipelines.
- Lead and direct a multi-functional technical team (6-8 people) focused on the Global pipeline for the Global ARTD category.

Regional Scope (EMEA)
- Partner with HI and Global Marketing and GDI category to fill category pipeline with new initiatives aligned with consumer insights
- Align on the short and long term prioritized initiatives for the category in EMEA with
- Global Marketing and GDI category
- OU Marketing, TI&SC and TCR
- Prioritize and manage resources to deliver committed R&D plans through the stage gate process
- Leverage transformative thinking to devise solutions within unconventional business processes, models, and capabilities, while maintaining an end-to-end systemic perspective
- Develop products for consumer test with the best ingredients and process to enable superiority, scalability and profitability
- Co-lead scale up with TI&SC, CPS and the bottler
- Capture and document learning for each project to ensure continuous improvement

**FUNCTION RELATED ACTIVITIES/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:**

**Category Leadership**:

- Drive Category Big Bets to deliver against innovation metrics.
- Lead the design and front-end development of global Big Bets and partner with GDI Innovation Center peers for regional solutions as appropriate, to ensure full value of initiatives is captured across the enterprise.
- Provide inspirational thought leadership and enable implementation of Category providing 3-5-year pipelines for competitive advantage.
- Leverage routines to ensure early engagement and inclusion of other TI&SC functions.
- Ensure organizational alignment in the design and execution of Big Bets.
- Maintain value added relationships with multiple constituencies including Coca-Cola system leaders and associates; bottlers; customers; suppliers; external stakeholders at multiple levels and on a global basis.
- Partnering with the R&D peers, ensuring external connection with Bottlers and suppliers to understand needs and share plans, to fully leverage their capability and support internal stakeholders in trade associations to address industry challenges.
- Active contributor to Present forward/Shape the Future Innovation Hubs together with the EMEA Innovation center leader to deliver against Innovation Hub metrics.

**People Leadership**:

- Build and develop a highly engaged Category GDI network as well as leading a direct team (team size estimate 6-8 employees).
- Manage resources effectively, including leading the allocation and prioritization of activities, budget requirements, performance management and assessing development ne