Senior Director, Communications, Transformation & Leadership Capability

Job Description Summary:

The Coca-Cola Company is accelerating its digital transformation journey, embedding data, technology, and AI into how work gets done across the enterprise.

This role will lead enterprise transformation communications, adoption, and leadership capability efforts that help employees, leaders, and teams embrace new ways of working and realize business value from strategic transformation initiatives.

Reporting into the Global Digital Network, this leader will partner across Digital, Technology, Communications, HR, and Business teams to mobilize global employee populations around enterprise priorities. This role requires a highly strategic and creative thinker who is equally comfortable influencing executives, shaping narratives, building capability, and driving execution.

This is a lean, hands-on role. The successful candidate will personally develop communication strategies, executive messaging, transformation narratives, adoption approaches, leadership resources, and engagement plans while managing multiple initiatives simultaneously.

What You'll Do

Enterprise Transformation

• Lead communications, mobilization, and adoption efforts for global transformation initiatives.
• Partner with business, technology, and digital leaders to accelerate the adoption of new capabilities, tools, and ways of working.
• Translate complex business, technology, and AI initiatives into compelling, actionable narratives.
• Drive measurable adoption and business impact across large employee populations.

Communications & Storytelling

• Develop executive communications, transformation narratives, presentations, town halls, and enterprise messaging strategies.
• Create communication plans that build understanding, excitement, and commitment to transformation efforts.
• Help leaders communicate change effectively and consistently across diverse global audiences.
• Ensure communications are engaging, audience-centric, and aligned to business outcomes.

Leadership Capability & Mobilization

• Build scalable approaches that strengthen leader readiness and organizational capability.
• Create playbooks, resources, and tools that help leaders guide teams through transformation.
• Establish leader and influencer networks that accelerate adoption and reinforce desired behaviors.
• Support capability-building efforts that enable sustainable transformation outcomes.

Transformation Execution

• Manage multiple transformation initiatives simultaneously within a fast-paced environment.
• Operate effectively with limited agency, consulting, or external support.
• Use data and insights to assess adoption, identify risks, and adjust strategies.
• Collaborate across global functions, operating units, and markets to drive alignment and execution.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience leading enterprise transformation, communications, capability-building, digital adoption, or organizational transformation initiatives within large global organizations.
• Demonstrated success influencing enterprise-wide transformations impacting large, geographically dispersed workforces.
• Strong executive communications and storytelling experience.
• Experience supporting digital, technology, AI, data, or operating model transformations.
• Proven ability to mobilize leaders and employee populations around strategic business initiatives.
• Experience operating within global functions supporting multiple regions and cultures.
• Ability to work effectively in lean, highly matrixed environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within technology, digital-first, consulting, innovation-led, agency, or similarly complex global organizations.
• Experience supporting AI adoption, digital transformation, and future-of-work initiatives.
• Experience building enterprise-wide capability, adoption, or mobilization programs.
• Strong understanding of how communications, capability building, and transformation work together to drive business outcomes.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate:

• Combines creativity, strategic thinking, and digital fluency.
• Is equally strong in communications, transformation, and leadership capability.
• Brings fresh perspectives and challenges conventional thinking.
• Translates complex technology and AI concepts into practical action.
• Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Can influence from the executive suite to frontline employees.
• Is highly hands-on and execution-oriented.
• Excels at mobilizing large organizations around business transformation.

What This Role Is Not

• A traditional HR role
• A Learning & Development role
• An Organizational Development role
• An Employee Engagement role
• A Communications-only role

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: 203,000 - 235,000 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:

50

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.

Long-term Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

20

Long-term Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role.

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

October 29, 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.

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