Senior Director, Product Development - Global Tea

• Define and drive the 3 to 5-year product innovation roadmap for the Global Tea category.

• Identify future growth opportunities through consumer trends, emerging technologies, and market insights.

• Partner closely with Global Marketing, Research & Development, Supply Chain, and Innovation Centers worldwide to create scalable innovation platforms.

• Drive breakthrough innovation opportunities that accelerate category growth and strengthen competitive advantage.

• Build strong partnerships with regulatory and scientific affairs teams to unlock new ingredients and technologies.

• Translate global innovation strategies into products and solutions that resonate with local consumers.

• Lead the development of beverages that deliver strong consumer appeal, scalability, quality, and profitability.

• Ensure projects move efficiently through the innovation process while meeting quality, regulatory, and operational requirements.

• Anticipate risks early and implement solutions that support successful market launches.

• Capture key learnings and continuously improve innovation execution.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product development leaders and technical experts.

• Foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, speed, accountability, and collaboration.

• Prioritize resources and investment against the most impactful opportunities.

• Create an environment where diverse perspectives drive better decisions and stronger business outcomes.

• Influence and align senior stakeholders across multiple functions, regions, and operating units.

• Ensure innovation decisions balance consumer needs, technical feasibility, business objectives, and manufacturing readiness.

• Leverage digital tools and modern ways of working to improve speed, efficiency, and quality.

• Bachelor’s/ Master’s in Food Science, Chemistry, Nutrition, Chemical Engineering, or similar.

• 15+ years delivering successful product innovation in FMCG/beverage/food, including senior leadership experience.

• Proven track record of turning insights into market-leading products.

• Strategic thinker with strong cross-cultural leadership, stakeholder influence, and commercial acumen.

• Ability to:

  • Set up strategy and translate strategy into clear team priorities and executable plans.

  • Stay on top of technical, consumer and competitive trends and insights.

  • Encourage creativity within the team and removes barriers to idea generation. Build 'out-side in" capability in the team.

  • Ensure the team applies the right expertise to deliver strong outcomes.           

  • Lead the team through complex problem-solving and trade-off decisions.

  • Lead, motivate, and develop a team to deliver consistent results. High level X- functional leadership        

  • Make people and business decisions impacting team performance and business delivery (High Global impact and multi-year)

• Fluent in English; regional languages a plus.

• Global travel up to 25%.

 In this role, you will:

• Build a robust pipeline of future-ready tea innovations.

• Deliver products that consumers love and markets can scale.

• Lead high-performing teams capable of shaping the future of the category.

• Influence strategic decisions that drive long-term business growth.

• Strengthen Coca-Cola's leadership position within the global tea industry.

Our most successful leaders demonstrate four core growth behaviors:

• Beverage Product Development or strong food product development with global supply chain advantages, competitive edge and IP protection incorporated.

• Front end innovation

• Innovation Portfolio creation and management

• End to end innovation delivery

• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

• Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

• Commercially Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.

• Performance Driven & 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.

• Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders

• Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential.

• Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.

• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.

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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.