Location(s):
South Africa
City/Cities:
Johannesburg
Travel Required:
Relocation Provided:
Job Posting End Date:
April 18, 2025
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Job Description Summary:
The Coca-Cola Company is poised towards transforming itself into a Total Beverage Company. We are challenging ourselves to think, act and work differently and ensuring that we constantly demonstrate a growth mindset. The people agenda plays a critical role in this transformation and includes transforming the way we attract and retain talent.
We have a passion for finding and developing talent that will help write the next chapter of our company’s success. This senior individual contributor role requires expertise in attracting various talent profiles across multiple countries while acting as a trusted talent advisor to the business. Recruitment expertise, team collaboration and proactively delivering against Coca-Cola’s overall talent strategy will be critical in this role. Our ideal candidate will have a history of building strong relationships with senior level stakeholders, the ability to understand and adapt recruiting strategies in complex markets to generate outstanding results while providing an excellent stakeholder experience. If you have a thirst for leadership and a drive to find great talent, then we would love to meet you.
What You’ll Do For Us
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Responsible for driving the recruitment process for internal and external senior talent in support of business needs today and in the future. The Director, Talent Acquisition will drive end-to-end recruiting and consultation; including market research, building robust pipelines for critical skills, sourcing, candidate assessment, interview and offer management. The role will also support senior talent move processes locally.
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Foster and maintain relationships with key partners and leadership to understand business objectives and key skills needed to support company growth. Provide external insights on the talent market (i.e. demographic trends, employment projections) and develop holistic talent attraction, sourcing and hiring strategies.
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Deliver on recruitment priorities leveraging both internal and external talent channels while collaborating with Talent, HR and Leadership
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Identify, develop, and implement innovative sourcing and talent mapping strategies for key roles and critical skills that result in quality talent pipelines to meet workforce needs aligned to business objectives
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Achieve positive outcomes against talent KPIs; partner with internal teams (local and global) on identifying and executing operational efficiencies
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Support Coca-Cola’s initiatives and objectives by attracting talent through strategic sourcing strategies to ensure Coca-Cola continues to be a top destination for talent
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Utilize data analytics to provide insights and recommendations to the business related to the recruitment process
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Ensure compliance with local legislation
Qualifications & Requirements
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
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Eight (8) plus years with a history of success recruiting senior level talent in a complex global environment and/or recruitment search firm
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Experience influencing executives across various disciplines, functions and geographies
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Strong sourcing capability and ability to act as a talent ambassador
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Strong operational experience with recruitment tools and processes
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Ability to apply business acumen and drive operational excellence while anticipating and adapting to changing needs of the business
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Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, required
What We Can Do For You
- Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
- Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.
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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.
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.
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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.
