Compensation: $112k-$140k / Annual based on experience
Build a career where your work matters to the business, the customer, and the communities we serve.
Be part of Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, a locally rooted, people-first organization where meaningful work, long-term growth, and community impact come together.
Why Coke Northeast?
- You’ll join a company that serves local communities across the Northeast and invests in the people behind the work.
- You’ll be part of a culture that values development, collaboration, and fresh perspectives at every level.
- You’ll build a career with the scale, stability, and opportunity of a trusted, iconic brand.
Job Description
Reporting to the Chief of Staff & Corporate Governance, the Director, Enterprise Project Management will establish and lead Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast’s enterprise Project Management Office, bringing structure, visibility, and disciplined execution to the Company’s highest-priority cross-functional initiatives. The Director will complement - not replace - strong functional project-management capabilities in areas such as Digital & IT, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, and will strengthen enterprise change management so major initiatives are adopted and sustained.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Enterprise Portfolio & Prioritization
- Partner with the President, Chief of Staff, ELT, and functional leaders to maintain a focused portfolio of high-impact enterprise initiatives with clear owners, timelines, resources, risks, and expected outcomes.
- Identify dependencies, resource conflicts, and capacity constraints, and recommend sequencing so overlapping changes do not reach sales centers and frontline teams at once.
- Deliver concise, decision-oriented portfolio reporting to the ELT and, when appropriate, the Board of Directors. Strategic Project Leadership
- Personally lead selected cross-functional projects, translating strategic objectives into plans with clear scope, milestones, owners, and measures of success.
- Establish project governance - executive sponsors, workstreams, and stakeholder groups - and facilitate reviews that drive decisions and accountability.
- Surface and resolve barriers early, keeping projects tied to their intended financial and operational value. Project Governance & Standards
- Develop a simple, scalable project-management framework, templates, and tools that improve discipline without adding bureaucracy.
- Define criteria for when initiatives require enterprise PMO involvement versus remaining within existing functional project structures.
- Establish common measures of project health and capture lessons learned for future projects. Change Management & Adoption
- Partner with People & Culture and business leaders to implement a consistent Coke Northeast Change Management Framework.
- Build stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and readiness into major project plans, considering frontline and field impacts early.
- Measure adoption to confirm that changes deliver their intended results. Cross-Functional Partnership
- Build strong relationships across Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Digital & IT, People & Culture, Public Affairs, and other functions.
- Serve as a neutral facilitator when initiatives span multiple functional owners, balancing enterprise standards with local needs.
- Create forums for project leaders to share tools, risks, and lessons learned.
Job Requirements
Required
- Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or transformations in a multi-location operating environment.
- Strong project-management discipline, including planning, governance, resource and risk management, and executive reporting.
- Proven ability to translate strategy into executable plans and manage multiple initiatives with senior stakeholders.
- Business and financial acumen, including developing business cases and connecting project outcomes to performance.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to engage executives and frontline operators alike. Preferred
- Experience in consumer packaged goods, beverage, food, distribution, manufacturing, or another field-based environment.
- Experience establishing or evolving an enterprise PMO and leading organizational change.
- Familiarity with PMP/PMI, Agile, Prosci ADKAR, or similar methodologies - applied pragmatically - and modern work-management platforms.
Benefits & Perks Eligible employees may have access to a comprehensive benefits package, which may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, life insurance, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, scholarship opportunities, and more.
*Benefits eligibility and offerings may vary based on position, location, employment type, and union governance.
Background Verification Employment with Coke Northeast is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of a pre-employment background verification. Depending on the role, this process may include a criminal background check, drug screening, and/or review of driving records in accordance with company guidelines and applicable laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer Coke Northeast is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local law.
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