Our EMEA Innovation Center sits at the heart of The Coca-Cola Company’s next chapter of growth. We are committed to transforming and evolving our organization and ambitions — bringing our people closer to the consumer, continuously raising the bar, and embracing digitalization to enable sustainable growth. 
 
We are looking for a highly driven individual contributor who thrives on ownership and impact, and who fuels the innovation pipeline with bold ideas that translate into real-world results. This role is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about challenging assumptions, unlocking opportunity, and personally driving valuable breakthrough innovation. 
 
Job purpose summary 

As Senior Manager Control Tower, you will ensure compliance to existing innovation tools and processes to drive innovation excellence and achieve TCCC strategic goals. You will continuously assess/improve tools and processes to ensure agility, efficiency, and speed to market. You will be a key contributor to the team engagement in facilitating ways of working through digitalization and connect with the other Innovation Centres Control Tower to bring harmonization and leverage synergies. 

What You’ll Do:

• Set up and manage tool and routine to track and monitor resource allocation, bring visibility to leadership to facilitate efficient resource allocation aligned with priorities across OU’s and Global/local categories. 

• Manage the Innovation Centre OPEX and CAPEX budget to enable to deliver regional and global priorities. 

• Coordinate and maximize tax and grants initiatives, collaborate with relevant government agencies to maximize incentives and support for TCCC innovation efforts. 

• Track, monitor and analyze innovation performance metrics together with the TISC and Marketing PMO. Define, track, monitor and analyze additional performance metrics specific to the Innovation Center. Report gaps vs plan to leadership to enable to pivot with agility and deliver our commitment.  

• Lead the design and execution of Innovation Center visit experiences by aligning agendas to business priorities and measurable impact. 

• Lead Innovation Sessions across Operating Units in partnership with OU connectors, driving cross‑pollination of best practices and maximizing impact on the innovation pipeline. 

• Coordinate technical post project reviews and documentation to ensure continuous improvement. 

• Create escalation board to highlight risk of delay to OU and leadership.  

• Document and share Innovation Center successes to bring more visibility on achievements.  

• Co-lead with the other Innovation Center Control Tower the Innovation Center Way of working network to exchange good practices across centers. 

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline. 

• 8–10 years of experience in beverage/food industry 

• Proven success in delivering innovation that balances consumer appeal, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance.  

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills across diverse cultures. 

• Ability to: 

• Think end-to-end across initiatives and influences priorities aligned with strategy. 

• Encourage creativity within the team and removes barriers to idea generation. 

• Leverage internal and external resources smartly.  

• Solves complex, ambiguous problems and anticipates downstream impacts. 

• Coaches and supports others within and outside of the team.  

• Makes timely decisions with incomplete information while managing risk. 

• Fluent in English; regional languages a plus. 

• Regional travel up to ~20%.