Senior Director, Executive

Job Description

Summary:

The Senior Director, Executive Recruiting will lead and deliver executive-level searches across operating units and corporate functions, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and bottling partners. This role owns end-to-end executive search execution and plays a critical role in strengthening leadership pipelines and succession outcomes across a complex, multi-market system. The successful candidate will combine deep executive search expertise with strong commercial judgment, credibility with senior leaders, and the ability to operate confidently in a highly matrixed, partner-driven environment.

• Lead and deliver senior-level executive searches across operating units and corporate functions, from search strategy through offer acceptance and onboarding transition.
• Design and execute robust, insight-driven search strategies that identify, engage, and secure high-impact executive talent globally.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert in executive recruiting, including market mapping and leadership consulting in support of succession planning and leadership pipeline development.
• Advise and influence senior leaders on talent solutions for new, evolving, and strategically critical businesses, categories, and functions.
• Partner closely with hiring leaders to define candidate profiles, calibrate leadership requirements, and align on target markets and talent archetypes.
• Proactively source, engage, assess, and develop executive-level prospects into high-quality candidates.
• Build and maintain deep external talent networks and industry relationships to create sustained access to priority leadership populations.
• Lead client update sessions, search reviews, and finalist debriefs, providing clear market intelligence, risk assessment, and hiring recommendations.
• Conduct rigorous candidate assessment, due diligence, and reference checking for shortlisted executives.
• Develop and present offer proposals and lead complex offer negotiations through to successful closure.
• Contribute to the executive recruiting knowledge base by sharing market intelligence, industry trends, competitive insights, and emerging leadership c capabilities.
• Deliver a consistently high-quality experience for both candidates and senior stakeholders.
• Communicate complex perspectives and recommendations clearly and persuasively with senior executives.
• Build credibility quickly with internal leaders and external bottling partners, maintaining appropriate process discipline while adapting to business and market realities when required.
• Act as a true thought partner to executive leadership on leadership strategy, not only on individual searches.
• Prepare and deliver high quality candidate update reports, market intelligence briefs, and search progress documentation for senior leaders, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timely insight throughout each engagement.
• Prepare and deliver high quality candidate update reports, market intelligence briefs, and search progress documentation for senior leaders, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and timely insight throughout each engagement.
• Build credibility quickly with internal leaders and external bottling partners, maintaining appropriate process discipline while adapting to business and market realities when required.
• Build credibility quickly with internal leaders and external bottling partners, maintaining appropriate process discipline while adapting to business and market realities when required.

• Demonstrated experience leading executive searches within an in-house executive recruiting function and/or a leading executive search firm.
• Proven ability to manage the full executive search lifecycle, including market research, candidate…