Location(s):
Philippines
City/Cities:
Taguig City
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
Yes
Job Posting End Date:
February 20, 2026
Shift:
Job Description Summary:
Reporting to:Vice President, Technical, Innovation & Supply Chain - ASEAN & South Pacific OU
Location: Manilla, Philippines.
The Senior Director of Technical Operations is a people manager and a key member of theOperationsLeadership Team, responsible for overseeing technical operations, commercialization, Quality & Food Safety, and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)of the Philippines. This role provides executive-level direction and serves as the primary technicaloperationscontactforOperationspartners and Bottlers.
The Senior Director drives cost efficiency, productivity, and regulatory compliance in collaboration with the SRA of the assigned market, while supporting the company’s long-term business strategy (ABP/LRP). The role also leads new packaging and product development/commercialization initiatives and ensures full market compliance with Quality, Food Safety, and HSE requirementsin accordance withKORE policies.
Provide technical leadership toOperationsand bottling partners across Technical Operations, Commercialization, Quality & Food Safety, and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
Drive operational performance outcomes, including productivity, commercialization execution, asset reliability, process efficiency, continuity of supply, QFS and HSE performance, in collaboration with OU Supply Chain and other T&&SC functions
Serve as the primary technical escalation point for bottlers, leading issue resolution, incident management, and corrective actions.
Lead execution of new product and packaging commercialization in partnership with Supplier,CPS, bottlers, other TI&SCfunctionsandOperationsfunctions.
Build and sustain system capabilities across people, processes, technology, and infrastructure to support long-term, sustainable growth.
Actively engage and develop teams by fostering a culture of trust, accountability, collaboration, and continuous feedback, while building a strong pipeline of future technical and cross‑functional leaders.
Serves as the OU TI&SC technical authority for bottlers at assigned market, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient operations aligned with KORE, QFS, and HSE standards.
Executes OU TI&SC strategy at market level, delivering ABP/LRP commitments through disciplined commercialization, operational excellence, and continuity of supply.
Drives measurable improvements in productivity, asset reliability, and process efficiency in partnership with OU Supply Chain. Ensures technical readiness for capacity and infrastructure plans without duplicating Supply Chain ownership.
Leads issue escalation and incident management, ensuring rapid resolution, strongrootcausediscipline, and prevention of recurrence.
Proactively escalates risks affecting supply, quality, safety, or execution withfactbasedrecommendations.
Demonstrates calm, credible leadership during critical events, reinforcing trust, accountability, andCocaColavalues.
Verygoodunderstanding of technical risk management, technical governance, project management framework and methodologies, Quality Safety Environment metrics and commercialization processes.
KeyKnowledge Requirements
- Technical and Quality Food Safety, HSE
- Project Management / Risk management
- Product Commercialization
- Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence
- Communicating, Influencing and negotiation
- Supply chain optimization
- Contingency planning and BCP
- Business case preparation
- Integrated management systems and digital literacy
About Coca Cola ASEAN & South Pacific
TheCocaColaCompany (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. TheCocaColaASEAN and South Pacific (ASP) operating unit serves 25 countries across Southeast Asia, Australia,New Zealandand the Pacific Islands. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands in ASP includes Coca-Cola,Spriteand Fanta. We also offer a variety of water, sports, juice, dairy, and tea brands including Dasani, Mount Franklin, Wilkins,AdeS,smartwater,vitaminwater, Powerade,FuzeTea, MinuteMaidandNutriboost.We’reconstantly innovating and transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing new and exciting products to market. Weseekto positivelyimpactpeople’s lives,communitiesand the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcingpracticesand emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we help bring economic opportunity to local communities across the region. Learn more atwww.coca-colacompany.comand follow us on Twitter, Instagram,Facebookand LinkedIn.
The Coca-Cola Company: Refresh the World. Make a Difference
Skills:
Influencing, organization
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.
