Senior Director, Hydration & Advanced Hydration, Global Development & Innovation

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Job Description Summary: Scope & Impact Lead the top and bottom-line growth agenda for multiple fast growing highly segmented and complex Hydration and Advanced Hydration global categories and brands. This role is responsible for building and strongly drive a robust 3-5-year innovation pipeline of global and regional reach in partnership with the GDI Category network, Innovation and Technology Strategy, Global Equipment Platform, Global Marketing Category Lead, OU Innovation Hubs, OU Marketing Innovation Leaders, Strategy, Human Insights, Global Supply Chain, and Research-to-Experimentation. Global Category Pipelines are expected to deliver sufficiency to drive +$306M Incremental KO GP impact from innovation. This category is one of largest contributors to the revenue and profits for the Company with the biggest projected industry growth, especially on functional space. This leader will be accountable for category product, package, equipment competitive benchmarking in the TOP 15/40 markets, ensuring Global Hydration and Advanced Hydration portfolio remain highly competitive. Orchestrator of multiple TI&SC function subject matter experts and leaders, such as Flavor and Ingredient Research, Process Development, TCR, Packaging, SRA, QSE, SC, FM, CPS, etc., to identify fit-for-purpose concepts, which could be deployed through viable scalable solutions into the markets by the Innovation Center peers or Innovations teams. This leader will also support the NA Innovation Center leader on Shape the Future Innovation Hub to deliver against Innovation metrics. This role is a member of the North America Innovation Center Leadership Team. Focus Areas Key areas of focus of this role can be summarized as follows: Develop innovation strategies (product, package, and equipment) to deliver 3-5-year pipeline for growth plans for Hydration and Advanced Hydration category Collaborate closely with Research to Experimentation (RtE) team to design and develop scalable solutions for next generation of category products via rigorous due diligence (clinical trials, consumer research and other scientific studies). Responsible for identifying and enabling the execution of the next RtE pipeline that can help step change of the growth of the categories. Collaborate deeply with global and regional SRA teams to get ahead of novel ingredients approval through appropriate agencies (FDA, EFSA etc.) and bring bolder competitive claims. Deliver impactful programs to deliver against Category Strategy in long range plans and beyond. Partner with Innovation Center peers to leverage project management routines to deliver global innovations with local consumer relevance. Ensure technical efforts on category are informed by consumer insights, business models and important technology trends to deliver advantaged solutions. Establish and maintain process and routines for cross functional inclusion in technical innovation strategy development, planning and project execution. Monitor external environment to identify and action on threats and opportunities for the category. Define and orchestrate the network for optimal people resourcing to deliver global pipelines. Lead and direct a multi-functional technical team (6-8 people) focused on the Global pipeline for the Global Hydration and Advanced Hydration category. FUNCTION RELATED ACTIVITIES/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Category Leadership: Drive Category Big Bets to deliver against innovation metrics. Lead the design and front-end development of global Big Bets and partner with Innovation Center peers for regional solutions as appropriate, to ensure full value of initiatives is captured across the enterprise. Provide inspirational thought leadership and enable implementation of Category providing 3-5-year pipelines for competitive advantage. Leverage routines to ensure early engagement and inclusion of other TI&SC functions. Ensure organizational alignment in the design and execution of Big Bets. Maintain value added relationships with multiple constituencies including Coca-Cola system leaders and associates; bottlers; customers; suppliers; external stakeholders at multiple levels and on a global basis. Partnering with the R&D peers, ensuring external connection with Bottlers and suppliers to understand needs and share plans, to fully leverage their capability and support internal stakeholders in trade associations to address industry challenges. Lead and accelerate the Category Development on Functional space (size > $10Bn, with high growth across markets), driving a transformational change into the Hydration & Advanced Hydration category. Active contributor to Shape the Future Innovation Hub together with the NA R&D leader to deliver against Innovation Hub metrics. People Leadership: Build and develop a highly engaged Category GDI network as well as leading a direct team (team size estimate 6-8 employees). Manage resources effectively, including leading the allocation and prioritization of activities, b