Senior Director, Dispensed Innovation
Listed on 2026-02-01
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Management
Business Management, Operations Manager
Overview
Location(s): United States of America
City/Cities: Atlanta
Travel Required: 26% - 50%
Relocation Provided: No
Job Posting End Date: January 30, 2026
Shift:
Job Description
Summary:
The Senior Director, Dispensed Innovation will serve as a strategic people leader responsible for shaping and advancing the FSOP innovation pipeline while leading a high-performing team. This role requires strong leadership, cross-functional influence, and the ability to set a compelling long-term vision for dispensed innovation across FSOP initiatives. This leader will guide a team of innovation experts, ensuring alignment with category, brand, commercial, customer, and operational teams.
The role is accountable for prioritizing and advancing product and package innovation that drives growth, meets customer needs, and accelerates FSOP innovation delivery. This role requires agility and the ability to shift focus based on the work that matters most.
What You’ll Do for Us
FSOP Innovation: Champion FSOP voice of customer and proper translation of brand innovation strategies across food service/on premise channels.
Use data and insights to identify trends to support innovation strategy.
Partner with the category teams and key cross-functional stakeholders on product/package innovation (scalable & customer specific).
Serve as the innovation SME with the customer teams including code 10/5s.
Team Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Directors within Dispensed Innovation, fostering high performance, collaboration, and accountability.
Set team priorities, establish clear objectives, and provide ongoing direction aligned to the FSOP Innovation and Freestyle commercialization strategies.
Build and sustain a culture of innovation, empowerment, and continuous improvement.
Ensure team alignment across key functions including category management, brand teams, commercial leadership, and customer teams.
Qualifications & Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or another related field.
7+ years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry.
Leadership and experience working in Food service/On Premise channels.
Experience in brand and category management.
Demonstrates strong business acumen through the ability to create a 1-3-year business plan for brand/category and a path to achieve that vision, anticipating future trends and needs in the marketplace and business; demonstrates innovation/creativity.
Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate and build relationships at all organizational levels; communicates long-term vision and shorter-term opportunities through clear & simple messages.
People leadership/management – specifically, leading teams and influencing multiple stakeholders with different priorities.
Strong track record of leadership across cross-functional teams.
What We Can Do For You
Leadership Development: Our Company’s purpose clearly speaks to the importance of leadership. We feel everyone has potential to be a great leader at Coca-Cola and have set the bar high.
Total Rewards: Our benefits, called Total Rewards, is about the total value of working at The Coca-Cola Company. It is focused on the complete package of pay, benefits, learning and personal support you receive as a Coca-Cola employee.
Learning & Development: At The Coca-Cola Company we believe innovation can't happen without continuous learning and we provide our employees many ways to grow professional and personally.
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: Branding, Category Management, Channels Strategy, Commercialization Strategies, Customer Insights, Demand Generation, Digital Advertising, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Marketing Strategies, Market Segmentation, Microsoft Office, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Social Media, Strategy…
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