Global Packaging Director

CPS (Commercial Products Supply) is a key part of the Advantaged Supply Chain of the Technical Function of The Coca-Cola Company. CPS manufactures concentrates and beverage bases for sale to bottling partners all over the world. This global organization manages a network of 18 manufacturing plants in 17 different countries.

The CPS Global Packaging Director leads the packaging strategy for CPS to ensure that our packaging are meeting high food safety and quality standards and regulations, are driving operational efficiency and productivity, and are evolving leveraging new technologies to meet our World Without Waste commitments as a key part of CPS sustainability ambition.
- Provide strategic direction and ensure broad cross functional stakeholder input and alignment for Global Packaging though creating broad and integrated strategies and plans. Strategies will include alignment across Customer/Procurement/Technical and quality aspects and pro-actively support current and future requirements.
- Global Role with significant cross functional engagement and with a high degree of accountability & engagement for all aspects of developing and managing the packaging category for CPS.
- Ensure the packaging plans and initiatives for “fit for purpose” packaging are delivered in accordance metrics and annual business plans. Provide governance for packaging to ensure focus on regulatory compliance, sustainability, quality, value creation and continuous improvement in people, process and performance measures.

**Strategy**:
Set the strategic direction for packaging for CPS; develop a broad “fit for use” program focused on sustainability, quality, operational efficiencies and cost reduction incorporating the following aspects:

- Regulatory compliance
- Internal and external customer requirements
- Standardized & optimized package range and specifications
- Specific value creation projects through PMO, enable packaging PI
- Risk Management & Business Continuity Plan implementation
- Governance & Metrics for process and quality improvement

**People & Stakeholder Management**:

- Ensure alignment across CPS, including CPSLT, QSE, Engineering & Quality Teams for prioritization of packaging programs.

**Implementation & Program Management**:

- Program Management - from Ideation through Implementation/Control that includes cross functional collaboration (end to end - supplier to customer for Global Initiatives including sustainability projects to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging materials
- Gain appropriate stakeholder alignment and approval through network meetings and annual business plan cycles. Identify resources, capability and funding requirements and develop prioritised implementation plans to ensure delivery of programs and projects to meet metrics & targets.

**Continuous Improvement & Governance**:

- Build capability through creating global standard processes and metrics across the packaging community, aligned to KORE and supporting Customer, Supplier and CPS plant operations.
- Update KORE to ensure regulatory and sustainability objectives are met
- Facilitate replication of best practices and adoption of standard through a defined communication program
- Ensure governance to above standards
- Meet defined sustainability targets/metrics

**Risk management**:

- Pro-actively work with stakeholders to identify and mitigate risk through process definition and various risk reduction methodologies.
- Manage significant GLOBAL supply (IMCR) issues
- Eliminate single source situation through standardization and development of the Supplier base and alternative BCP plans.