Senior Director, Product Development
Singapore
Listed on 2026-01-30
-
Management
Operations Manager, Business Management, Program / Project Manager
Location: Singapore
Role Type: People Leader/ Manager
Please note: This role is not a fully remote position. The selected candidate will need to be based in Singapore and follow our hybrid work setup—3 days onsite and 2 days working from home each week. This is a People Leader/ Manager position.
Lead the top and bottom-line growth agenda for multiple fast growing highly segmented and complex global Lead the top and bottom-line growth agenda for multiple fast growing Coca-Cola categories and brands. This role is responsible of building and directing a robust innovation pipeline in partnership with the GDI global network, Global Category & OU Marketing, Strategy, Human Insights, Global Supply Chain, and Research-to-Experimentation.
Category Pipelines are expected to deliver sufficiency to drive incremental growth from Innovation, as well as business continuity, and productivity solutions. Accountable for category product and package competitive benchmarking in markets, ensuring Coca-Cola portfolio remains highly competitive. Orchestrator of multiple TI&SC function subject matter experts and leaders, such as Process Development, TCR, Packaging, SRA, QSE, SC, FM, CPS to identify fit-for-purpose concepts and protocepts, which could be then deployed through viable sustainable solutions into the markets.
You’ll Do
Innovation Leadership:
Drive Big Bet innovations to deliver against metrics
Lead the design and front-end development to ensure full value of initiatives built around consumer needs and deliver full value across the enterprise.
Provide inspirational thought leadership and enable implementation of innovation pipelines for competitive advantage.
Leverage routines to ensure early engagement and inclusion of other TI&SC, Marketing and CPS functions
Ensure organizational alignment in the design and execution of innovation activities
Advanced collaboration skills:
Ability to develop and maintain value added relationships with multiple constituencies including GDI global network leaders, Coca-Cola system leaders and associates; bottlers; customers; suppliers; external stakeholders at multiple levels.Lead development of clear case for change, desired outcomes, accurate scope, clear roles and decision-making, and effective communication of the change.
Ensure 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
People Leadership:
Build, lead and develop a highly engaged GDI network as well as leading a direct team (leader of leaders).
Manage resources effectively, including leading the allocation and prioritization of activities, budget requirements, performance management, and assessing development needs.
Stakeholder Management:
Build relationships and networks with key stakeholders across the organization.
Technical Leadership:
Play a key role as a leadership member to ensure the Technical Community is providing optimal thought leadership, strong business value and delivering on our commitments to the business from our functional responsibilities.
Communication Focus
This role communicates internally with the GDI network, Global Category Marketing, ASP OU teams, and Global TI&SC teams. External communication with Bottlers, suppliers, trade associations, Singapore EDB and eco- systems.
Communication and engagement with multiple key stakeholders to gain agreement on the short- and long-term category strategies for TCCC.
What We’re Looking For
Bachelor’s/ Master’s in Food Science, Engineering, or related field.
Over 15 years working experience in food and beverage industry with over 10 years of F&B related innovation and technical development experience including product development, pipeline creation and management, competitive landscaping, and beverage technology development.
Strategic thinking, leadership and extensive experience in consumer-centric R&D, leveraging technical and competitive insights to deliver consumer value, IP strategy, and robust business cases.
Portfolio management to help focus on areas of greatest opportunity
Experience interacting with,…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).