Primary Location: Manila, Philippines
Open to other locations: Bangkok, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong
Role Type: People Manager
At Coca-Cola, protecting people, products, and the planet is central to our business, our brands, and the trust consumers place in us every day. The
Senior Director, Global Quality, Safety, and Environment, APAC reports to the VP, Global Audit Organization and leads Global Quality, Safety, and Environment Auditors in Asia. You will join the GAO leadership team to drive value creation and help shape an insights-driven, technology-enabled audit function that anticipates risk, prevents harm, and strengthens performance across the Coca-Cola System. This is more than an audit leadership role—it is an opportunity to shape how one of the world's most recognized companies uses data, digital tools, and technical expertise to manage risk, strengthen capability, and enable continuous improvement across our bottling network. You will partner with senior leaders, bottling partners, and technical experts to translate insights into action and help ensure we deliver the highest quality of the most loved beverages every day.
Why Join Us
- Lead a high-performing team across Asia Pacific Region.
- Shape the future of Coca-Cola's risk-based audit approach.
- Influence strategic decisions through data-driven insights.
- Build strong partnerships with senior leaders and bottling partners across the Coca-Cola System.
- Develop the next generation of technical talent.
- Expand your global network and visibility within one of the world's most iconic brands.
- Drive meaningful impact at a global scale on quality, food safety, occupational safety, and environmental performance.
What You'll Do For Us
- Lead and Inspire: Lead, coach, and develop a team of QSE audit professionals; create an engaging, inclusive, and high-performance culture; build future technical and leadership capability.
- Drive Risk-Based Assurance: Oversee independent audits across company-owned and franchised bottling operations; transform findings into actionable business insights; leverage data and performance indicators to improve audit effectiveness.
- Influence the System: Partner with operating units, bottling partners, and global stakeholders to strengthen QSE performance; advise leaders on emerging risks and compliance requirements; contribute to standards and governance frameworks.
- Shape the Future: As a member of the Leadership team, champion innovation, digital solutions, and modern audit practices; continuously improve methodologies, tools, and analytics; help define the long-term vision for the Global Audit Organization.
What We Are Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in science, Engineering, Food Technology, Environmental Sciences, or a related field. Preferred certifications include Auditor Certification, HACCP, Six Sigma, CSP/NEBOSH or Project Management.
- 12+ years of related extensive leadership experience in Quality, Safety, and Environment (QSE) and manufacturing operations, ideally within the food and beverage industry.
- Proven track record of enhancing QSE performance, managing risk, driving organizational change, and creating measurable business value through QSE excellence.
- An accomplished people leader, you excel at developing talent, influencing stakeholders, and leading high-performing teams across complex global organizations. You combine deep technical expertise in QSE and production systems with a strong understanding of regulatory requirements and evolving industry standards.
- Digital and data fluent with experience leveraging digital technologies and AI to strengthen decision-making, optimize processes, and improve performance.
- Expertise includes but not limited to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), HACCP, GFSI standards, management systems for Quality, Safety and Environment, root cause analysis, risk assessment, audit and assurance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Language Required Fluent English and fluent in another language relevant for the region.
Travel: Travel will fluctuate and is projected to be a maximum of 50% of the time.
Leadership Success Looks Like
You put your team and their wellbeing and development first. You think strategically and act decisively; build trust across stakeholders; develop high-performing teams; embrace innovation and continuous improvement; turn complex risks into practical solutions; and lead with integrity, courage, and accountability.
What can help you to be successful in the role
Growth Behavior
- Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
- Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
- Externally Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.
- Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.
- Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
- Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.
Leadership Behavior
- Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders
- Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others development to achieve their full potential.
- Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.
What We Can Do For You
- Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.
- International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.
Food Safety, Health and Safety
Location(s):
Philippines
City/Cities
Taguig City
Travel Required
26% - 50%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date
July 24, 2026
Our Purpose And Growth Culture
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. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
