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About the Role

This critical Europe Operating Unit leadership role strengthens the strategic backbone of the PACS function, driving clarity, discipline, and alignment across planning, prioritization, and resourcing to ensure maximum impact against business priorities and reputation objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Europe PACS ABP and LRP processes, ensuring alignment with Europe OU priorities, system strategies, and bottling partner plans.
• Translate Europe OU strategic priorities into clear PACS objectives, investment choices, and execution roadmaps.
• Enable disciplined prioritization across markets and workstreams, balancing short term needs with long term value creation.
• Design and lead a Europe PACS resource allocation strategy across DME and OPEX, consistent with system-aligned priorities and focused on maximizing impact.
• Establish clear governance, processes, and decision forums to guide investment choices and trade offs.
• Oversee PACS budget planning, tracking, and performance management, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Orchestrate core PACS operating routines to maximize efficiency, clarity, and cross functional collaboration.
• Integrate network and system teams into consistent, effective planning rhythms.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning tools, templates, and processes to simplify ways of working and elevate strategic focus.
• Act as a strategic partner to PACS, Finance, and Strategy leaders across the Europe OU.
• Provide clear, data driven insights to senior leadership to support decision making and performance discussions.
• Build strong, trust based relationships across the system to drive alignment and shared accountability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic planning, business operations, finance, or enterprise governance within a large, complex organization.
• Proven experience leading multimarket or regional planning and resource allocation processes.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience managing budgets, investment frameworks, and performance tracking.
• Ability to drive change and operate at enterprise level, influencing senior leaders and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Highly structured, analytical thinker with strong judgment and the ability to simplify complexity.
• Experience in FMCG, consumer facing, or matrixed global organizations strongly preferred.

Location

• Europe (Flexible)
• United Kingdom
• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Director

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Public Affairs, Communications, or a related field; advanced degree 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.