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About the Role
Leads the Sugar Program for the Coca-Cola system across the EMEA region, managing approximately $2.3Bn in regional category spend. The role focuses on developing and executing end-to-end sugar procurement strategies, ensuring supply continuity, and driving sustainable value through strategic sourcing, supplier management, and supply chain optimization.
Responsibilities
- Leads and manages the development and execution of procurement strategies for sugar in EMEA as part of the Cross-Enterprise Procurement Group.
- Creates and implements supply chain strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and risk.
- Conducts sourcing events, negotiates, and manages contracts, prices, volume, terms, and conditions.
- Works collaboratively across Procurement, Technical, and System to identify and execute business priorities.
- Provides product and service expertise to geographic associates to build bottler relationships.
- Builds sustainable sugar supplier relationships for the EMEA region.
- Develops negotiation strategies that deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable supplier relationships.
- Provides raw material cost forecasts to company-owned operations and relevant third parties.
- Participates in strategic expansions and investment discussions with key Sugar suppliers.
- Leads Sugar category sustainability strategy aligned with Principles for Sustainable Agriculture.
- Promotes digital tools and AI for enhanced insights.
- Provides collaborative guidance on sugar price hedging and commodity risk management.
- Influences suppliers' manufacturing processes, technology decisions, and policies.
- Evaluates supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s preferred.
- 10 years related Procurement work experience.
- Experience of Sugar procurement and awareness of sugar supply chain required.
- Internal stakeholder management & ability to influence.
- Supplier negotiation experience at executive level.
- Experience and ability to lead, prioritize, collaborate, and execute complex Sugar category strategy development and strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Preferred experience and understanding of the Coca-Cola system including bottler relationships.
- Effective communication, emotional intelligence, and presentation skills.
- Relationship management abilities including stakeholder collaboration / alignment and ability to interact with the most senior leaders of large global suppliers.
- Strong people skills: ability to develop/maintain productive business relationships and persuade/influence directly and indirectly.
- Strong stakeholder and supplier relationship building and management.
- Leadership and cross-functional collaboration experience.
- Courageous leadership to translate complex business issues into simple solutions.
- Ability to seek alternatives and recommend best solutions that gain all parties support and lead to win-win results.
- Able to work in ambiguous situations and manage risk.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and background.
- Ability to deliver results with a sense of urgency.
- Comfort with uncertainty, with the movement of markets, and with assessing and managing risks.
- Demonstrates the values of The Coca-Cola Company through words, actions, and by example; fosters an environment that reflects the values of the Company.
Skills
- Sugar procurement
- Sugar supply chain
- Stakeholder management
- Negotiation
- Strategic sourcing
- Category management
- Financial Acumen
- Business Partner Alignment
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Team Member Development
- Global Stakeholder Leadership
- Negotiation Excellence
- Risk Management & Continuity Planning
- Digital Fluency & Data-Driven Decision Making
Location
- Ireland
- Dublin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 10 years related Procurement work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s preferred
About the Company
- We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference.
- We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves.
- We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve.
- We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years.
- The Coca-Cola Company is a global community of passionate employees who are refreshing the world and making a difference every day.
- Innovation has been at the heart of our story since 1886.
- As a global organization, we seek opportunities to embrace and champion progress.
- Our careers span across functions and are globally connected to give you an unmatched career experience.
- The Coca‑Cola global business system is composed of The Coca‑Cola Company (TCCC), its subsidiaries and 225 bottling partners around the world.