Director, Portfolio and Planning - T&D

Job Description Summary:

The Director, Portfolio & Planning, PMO & Organizational Effectiveness turns enterprise P&C planning and portfolio direction into practical tools, routines and disciplined delivery. The role designs and runs the portfolio operating system, PMO standards, benefits methods and OE practices that help priorities move from strategy to coordinated execution. This role reports to the SVP, Talent and Development and works as part of a flexible team. It translates agreed enterprise direction into methods, analysis, tools and hands-on support, partnering with initiative owners, Finance, People Intelligence, People Services, OU and functional HR teams to keep priorities moving from decision to delivery. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Integrated Planning and Portfolio Methods 

• Design and maintain the practical methods that support LRP-to-ABP orchestration, including intake, taxonomy, prioritization criteria, initiative tiers, stage gates and delivery-health routines. 

• Build and maintain templates, consolidated roadmaps, dependency methods and exception-review materials that enable consistent planning and portfolio decisions. 

• Translate approved enterprise priorities into usable standards and routines for initiative owners, People Services, OUs and functional HR teams. 

• Continuously simplify the operating system so planning and portfolio routines improve decisions, reduce friction and support disciplined execution. 

Portfolio Scenarios, Benefits and Decision Support 

• Develop portfolio scenarios that make choices across funding, capacity, sequencing, dependencies and expected outcomes clear for decision makers. 

• Partner with Finance on budget and forecast analysis, ensuring portfolio recommendations are grounded in financial discipline while Finance retains financial ownership. 

• Own the benefits-realization method with People Intelligence and initiative owners, ensuring major initiatives define outcomes, measures and adoption evidence from the start. 

• Prepare clear options, implications and recommendations for portfolio reviews, governance routines and exception decisions.  

Organizational Effectiveness Methods and Delivery 

• Design practical OE methods and toolkits for diagnosis, role and accountability design, governance, decision rights and design assurance. 

• Lead selected diagnostics, design sprints and governance reviews based on agreed enterprise priorities and capacity. 

• Ensure OE methods and content are built to draw on People Intelligence and Future Workforce data where it strengthens the recommendation. 

PMO Community and Capability Building 

• Translate enterprise PMO direction into practical standards, tools, routines and learning that strengthen delivery discipline across the PMO community. 

• Steward consistent ways of working across Center, People Services and OUs while allowing purposeful local adaptation where it improves outcomes. 

Executive Materials, Analysis and Digital Fluency 

• Turn complex portfolio, benefits and organization analysis into clear options, implications and recommendations for senior leaders. 

• Contribute subject-matter content and evidence for executive materials and communications, in partnership with the communications role. 

• Use approved AI-enabled tools responsibly to reduce manual effort, improve analysis, strengthen scenario development and create reusable methods for the function. 

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Development, Psychology, Organizational Development, Behavioral Sciences, or related field required.
• 10+ years of prior relevant Human Resources Operations for a large-scale organization required
• Strong Project Management skills
• Expertise in business consultation with a proven track record of developing solutions for complex scenarios required
• Expertise in talent acquisition, employee and labor relations, and communications required
• Knowledge of total rewards, succession planning, and organizational capability & development.

What We Can Do For You:

• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging technologies and techniques. 
• Inclusive Workplace: The Coca-Cola Company is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We value and celebrate diversity, which leads to a stronger, more competitive company that can better serve our customers and communities.
• Community of Belonging: We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.  

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:

Pay Range:

United States: 149,000 - 166,000 USD

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

30

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Yes

Job Posting End Date:

October 16, 2026

Our 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.

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. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.