Senior Director GAO LATAM

Make a Global Impact 

At Coca-Cola, protecting people, product, and the planet is central to our business, our brands, and the trust consumers place in us every day. As the Senior Director, QSE Audit – Latin America Region, you will help advance a value-creating, insights-powered, and technology-enabled audit organization that anticipates risk, prevents harm, and drives stronger performance across the Coca-Cola System. This is more than an audit leadership role—it is an opportunity to shape how one of the world’s most recognized companies uses data, digital tools, and technical expertise to manage risk, strengthen capability, and enable continuous improvement across our bottling network. You will partner with senior leaders, bottling partners, and technical experts to translate insights into action and help ensure we deliver the highest quality of the most loved beverages every day. 

Why Join Us? 

• Lead a high-performing team across Latin America. 
• Shape the future of Coca-Cola's risk-based audit approach. 
• Influence strategic decisions through data-driven insights. 
• Build strong partnerships with senior leaders and bottling partners across the Coca-Cola System. 
• Develop the next generation of technical talent. 
• Expand your global network and visibility within one of the world's most iconic brands. 
• Drive meaningful impact on quality, food safety, occupational safety, and environmental performance. 

What You’ll Do 

Lead and Inspire: Lead, coach, and develop a team of QSE audit professionals; create an engaging, inclusive, and high-performance culture; build future technical and leadership capability. 

Drive Risk-Based Assurance: Oversee independent audits across company-owned and franchised bottling operations; transform findings into actionable business insights; leverage data and performance indicators to improve audit effectiveness. 

Influence the System: Partner with operating units, bottling partners, and global stakeholders to strengthen QSE performance; advise leaders on emerging risks and compliance requirements; contribute to standards and governance frameworks. 

Shape the Future: Champion innovation, digital solutions, and modern audit practices; continuously improve methodologies, tools, and analytics; help define the long-term vision for the Global Audit Organization. 

What We are Looking For:   

• Bachelor’s degree in science, Engineering, Food Technology, Environmental Sciences, or a related field. Preferred certifications include Auditor Certification, HACCP, Six Sigma, CSP/NEBOSH or Project Management. 

• 12+ years of related extensive leadership experience in Quality, Safety, and Environment (QSE) and manufacturing operations, ideally within the food and beverage industry.  

• Proven track record of enhancing QSE performance, managing risk, driving organizational change, and creating measurable business value through QSE excellence. 

• An accomplished people leader, you excel at developing talent, influencing stakeholders, and leading high-performing teams across complex global organizations. You combine deep technical expertise in QSE and production systems with a strong understanding of regulatory requirements and evolving industry standards. 

• Digital and data fluent with experience leveraging digital technologies and AI to strengthen decision-making, optimize processes, and improve performance. 

• Expertise includes but not limited to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), HACCP, GFSI standards, management systems for Quality, Safety and Environment, root cause analysis, risk assessment, audit and assurance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. 

• Language Skills: Required Fluent Spanish and English, with an additional preference for Portuguese.   

Travel: Travel will fluctuate and is projected to be a maximum of 50% of the time.  

Leadership Success Looks Like 

You put your team and their wellbeing and development first. You think strategically and act decisively; build trust across stakeholders; develop high-performing teams; embrace innovation and continuous improvement; turn complex risks into practical solutions; and lead with courage, and accountability. 

Why This Role Matters 

Every day, millions of consumers trust Coca-Cola products. By leading our QSE audit program in Latin America, you will help ensure that trust is earned and maintained while shaping the future of quality, safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence across our global system. What can help you to be successful in the role? 

Growth Behavior:  

• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity. 

• Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.  

• Externally Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. 

• Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers. 

• Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace. 

• Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance. 

Leadership Behavior 

• Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders. 

• Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders 

• Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential. 

• Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business. 

What We Can Do For You  

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process. 

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable. 

• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.