Senior Director, People & Culture

Job Title:Senior Director, People & Culture Location: Dublin, Ireland Reports to: Vice President P&C, Central Functions At The Coca Cola Company, we turn our global vision into local impact—refreshing the world and making a difference for people, communities, and the planet. As we continue to accelerate growth across our global network, we’re unlocking new possibilities through innovation, digital transformation, and a culture centered on inclusion, curiosity, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Serve as the strategic People and Culture advisor to senior leaders across Central Functions, integrating workforce insights, organizational analytics, and external trends to shape long-term people strategies.
• Design, lead, and implement integrated talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and workforce planning strategies that strengthen enterprise capability and support business growth.
• Drive organization effectiveness and design initiatives, ensuring structures, processes, and operating models are aligned to business priorities and support agility, collaboration, and high performance.
• Steward and evolve Coca Cola’s culture by partnering closely with leaders to activate behaviours, norms, and values that strengthen engagement, belonging, accountability, and innovation.
• Provide strategic guidance on total rewards, performance management, global mobility, and workforce rights, ensuring competitive practices that attract, develop, and retain top talent.
• Lead complex change initiatives across multiple countries and functions, including organizational transformation, workforce transitions, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Partner with Works Councils, employee representatives, and appropriate local stakeholders to enable smooth execution of people related changes while maintaining trust and transparency.
• Collaborate with Associate Services and People and Culture Centers of Excellence to ensure consistent execution of processes, policies, and employee experience standards.
• Lead data driven decision making by leveraging people analytics to identify capability gaps, workforce risks, and opportunities for proactive organizational development.
• Build leadership capability through coaching, thought partnership, and influencing, ensuring leaders are equipped to lead through change, create inclusive teams, and deliver sustainable results.
• Anticipate future skills, organizational needs, and talent risks; implement strategies that futureproof the organization and build long term competitive advantage.
• Act as a visible champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion by integrating inclusive practices across all people related initiatives.
• Shape employee engagement strategies that foster connection, empowerment, and continuous development across Central Functions and broader regional teams.
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws and Coca Cola’s ethical and operational standards while enabling business progression with appropriate risk mitigation approaches.
• Strengthen cross regional collaboration by building productive relationships across the Europe Operating Unit, corporate teams, and global People and Culture networks.

Benefits

• Total Rewards
• Performance Management
• Global Mobility
• Workforce Rights