Job Description Summary:
Job Title: Director, PACS Strategic Planning & Resource Allocation, Europe Operating Unit
Location: Europe (Flexible)
Reports To: Senior Director, PACS Strategy & Future Readiness
Role Purpose
The Director, PACS Strategic Planning & Resource Allocation is a critical Europe Operating Unit leadership role accountable for strengthening the strategic backbone of the PACS function. The role drives clarity, discipline, and alignment across planning, prioritization, and resourcing—ensuring PACS delivers maximum impact against Europe OU business priorities, reputation objectives, and long-term license to operate.
Operating at the intersection of strategy, finance, and enterprise governance, this role orchestrates Europewide PACS planning processes, including the Annual Business Plan (ABP) and Long Range Plan (LRP). The Director ensures strong integration across system partners, bottlers, and networked businesses (including Innocent and Costa), positioning PACS as a proactive, value creating business partner.
Through robust resource allocation, governance, and performance routines, the role enables leaders to make informed trade-offs, deploy investments where they matter most, and deliver locally relevant, sustainable impact across diverse European markets.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Planning & Enterprise Alignment
Lead the Europe PACS ABP and LRP processes, ensuring alignment with Europe OU priorities, system strategies, and bottling partner plans.
Translate Europe OU strategic priorities into clear PACS objectives, investment choices, and execution roadmaps.
Enable disciplined prioritization across markets and workstreams, balancing short term needs with long term value creation.
Resource Allocation & Financial Governance
Design and lead a Europe PACS resource allocation strategy across DME and OPEX, consistent with system-aligned priorities and focused on maximizing impact.
Establish clear governance, processes, and decision forums to guide investment choices and trade offs – acting as change agent to get buy-in on investment choices and revised ways of working.
Oversee PACS budget planning, tracking, and performance management, ensuring transparency and accountability with all budget owners (central and local).
Routines, Processes & Ways of Working
Orchestrate core PACS operating routines to maximize efficiency, clarity, and cross functional collaboration.
Integrate network and system teams—including Innocent, Costa, bottlers, and market PACS leaders—into consistent, effective planning rhythms.
Drive continuous improvement of planning tools, templates, and processes to simplify ways of working and elevate strategic focus.
Stakeholder & System Leadership
Act as a strategic partner to PACS, Finance, and Strategy leaders across the Europe OU.
Provide clear, data driven insights to senior leadership to support decision making and performance discussions.
Build strong, trust based relationships across the system to drive alignment and shared accountability.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Public Affairs, Communications, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive experience in strategic planning, business operations, finance, or enterprise governance within a large, complex organization.
Proven experience leading multimarket or regional planning and resource allocation processes.
Strong financial acumen, with experience managing budgets, investment frameworks, and performance tracking.
Ability to drive change and operate at enterprise level, influencing senior leaders and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
Highly structured, analytical thinker with strong judgment and the ability to simplify complexity.
Experience in FMCG, consumer facing, or matrixed global organizations strongly preferred.
What We Can Do For You
A high impact Europe OU leadership role shaping how PACS delivers strategic and consumer relevant impact at scale.
The opportunity to influence enterprise level decision making across one of Coca-Cola’s most complex operating units.
Exposure to senior Europe OU and system leaders within a collaborative, high performance, values driven culture.
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September 2, 2026Our 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Public Affairs, Communications, or a related field
- Advanced degree
- 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic planning, business operations, finance, or enterprise governance within a large, complex organization
- Experience leading multimarket or regional planning and resource allocation processes
- Strong financial acumen, including experience managing budgets, investment frameworks, and performance tracking
- Ability to drive change and operate at enterprise level, influencing senior leaders and navigating complex stakeholder environments
- Highly structured, analytical thinking with strong judgment and ability to simplify complexity
- Experience in FMCG, consumer-facing, or matrixed global organizations
The Coca-Cola Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Coca-Cola Company and has not been reviewed or approved by The Coca-Cola Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a standout, combining a 401(k) match with a company-funded cash-balance pension and an employee stock purchase plan match that together materially increase long-term package value.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and feature-rich, including national medical coverage plus specialized add-ons like virtual care, second opinions, oncology navigation, fertility support, and chronic-condition programs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are outlined with structured vacation accrual that increases with tenure and a holiday program that includes both set and floating days.
The Coca-Cola Company Insights
What We Do
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. In addition to the company’s Coca-Cola brands, our portfolio includes some of the world’s most valuable beverage brands, such as AdeS soy-based beverages, Ayataka green tea, Dasani waters, Del Valle juices and nectars, Fanta, Georgia coffee, Gold Peak teas and coffees, Honest Tea, innocent smoothies and juices, Minute Maid juices, Powerade sports drinks, Simply juices, smartwater, Sprite, vitaminwater and ZICO coconut water.
