What You’ll Do for Us:
- Lead juice and dairy category product development for INSWA, ensuring projects meet quality, timing, and budget targets.
- Employ a ‘design to value’ and end-to-end (E2E) approach, incorporating sustainability, regulatory requirements, consumer preference, and supply chain considerations.
- Drive and build future innovation pipelines with the innovation network through a deep understanding of market and consumer trends.
- Use expertise in prototyping and stability tracking to ensure successful product designs.
- Leverage Technical Consumer Research (TCR) tools to drive product superiority.
- Ensure robust product validation and co-lead scale-up trials in bottler plants.
- Leverage digital tools to enhance work efficiency and improve pace of innovation.
- Communicate clearly and constructively with partners to deliver creative ideas, solutions, and project progress.
- Apply influencing skills to drive prioritization and resolve conflicts and challenges.
- Actively participate in global juice and dairy technical platforms.
- Understand Coca-Cola’s system dynamics from bottling to global supply chains to enable winning innovations.
- Translate consumer insights and technology trends into successful innovations.
- Align global pipelines with local market and consumer needs.
- Mentor junior Product Developers (PDs) and support their project management skills.
- Assist in resource allocation and develop the nutrition platform’s technical capabilities
Qualifications & Requirements:
- At least 5 years successful product development experience in the beverages industry or 4-6 years successful experience in related food industry.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Post-Graduate degree in food science, chemistry, or related field.
- Fluent in English, with proficiency in an additional language preferred.
- Willing to travel up to 20% annually.
Desired Skills and Competencies:
- Strong capability of beverage development, ingredient knowledge, and industry standards.
- Digital literacy: Advanced digital skills to employ data analytics, AI, and digital prototyping in innovation. Data integrity and cybersecurity awareness.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management abilities.
- Agility, resilience, and creativity to navigate new product development projects.
- Stakeholder management, innovation leadership and strategic decision making.
- Proficiency in statistical analysis and experimental design.
- Proficiency to navigate within diverse ways of working. Embodying empathy and adeptness in conflict resolution.
- Commitment to sustainability and familiarity with science-based targets for eco-design and supply chain (e.g., tracking ingredient sourcing and lifecycle impacts, and foundational knowledge on circular economy).
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.