{"id":"6464932429","title":"Director, Innovation - Packaging & Equipment (ASEAN & South Pacific Operating Unit)","posted_at":"2026-11-12T12:27:13.000Z","apply_url":"https://coke.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/coca-cola-careers/job/Singapore---Singapore/Director--Innovation---Packaging---Equipment--ASEAN---South-Pacific-Operating-Unit-_R-148898-1","locations":["Singapore"],"employment_type":"full_time","workplace_type":null,"seniority_level":"director","description_language":"en","source_name":"workday","source_url":"https://coke.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/coca-cola-careers/job/Singapore---Singapore/Director--Innovation---Packaging---Equipment--ASEAN---South-Pacific-Operating-Unit-_R-148898-1","salary":null,"job_summary":null,"job_description":null,"description_text":"Summary:**\n\n**Reports to:** Senior Director, Innovation - ASEAN & South Pacific Operating Unit\n\n**Focus, Scope, & Impact:**\n\nBased in Singapore, this individual contributor role will accelerate and champion the end-to-end packaging innovation agenda across ASP, pioneering new packaging solutions and platforms that enable sustainable, profitable growth and differentiation.\n- **Own and lead packaging innovation pipeline development:**\n\n  - Co-create and refine multi-year packaging innovation strategies and long-range plans with Packaging, Country Marketing and Commercial teams, Global teams, Technical, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sustainability, R&D, and other key stakeholders.\n- Drive opportunity identification through consumer, market, regulatory, sustainability, technical, and cost insights - translating these into robust innovation platforms and a healthy pipeline of concepts and projects.\n- **Orchestrate effective project execution:**\n\n  - Ensure rigorous E2E project management, from concept validation to launch and scale across multiple markets.\n- Accelerate validated packaging solutions to ensure full market readiness, manufacturability, operational feasibility, supply chain alignment, and regulatory compliance.\n- Ensure innovations meet clear consumer jobs to be done while aligning with system capabilities, sustainability requirements, and cost structures.\n- Serve as the packaging innovation champion and connector, enabling knowledge flow and collaboration across packaging, technical, procurement, commercial, and country teams.\n- **Embed business, commercial, and capability impact:**\n\n  - Deliver innovation that aligns with brand guardrails, sustainability goals, and system investment priorities, ensuring commercial, financial viability, compliance, and market fit.\n- Support robust business case development, facilitate cross-functional reviews, manage innovation risks and trade-offs, and drive resource allocation.\n- Ensure packaging innovations deliver clear business impact: growth, differentiation, margin enhancement, value creation, consumer recruitment, supply chain efficiency, and reduction of environmental footprint.\n- **Drive culture of performance, agility, and learning:**\n\n  - Drive accountability for packaging innovation performance - speed to market, quality and impact of launches, conversion of pipeline into measurable outcomes, and business results.\n- Foster a mindset of test-and-learn within teams, encouraging rapid iteration, scalable success, sustainability breakthroughs, and best practice sharing.\n- Embed robust post-launch reviews and continuous improvement, leveraging system feedback and external trends to optimize future pipeline quality, innovation velocity, and market relevancy.\n\n**Experience & Critical Requirements:**\n\n- Significant experience 8-12+ years in FMCG innovation, portfolio/project management, and cross-functional leadership, ideally with regional exposure.\n- Deep expertise in category strategy, new product development (NPD), and commercialization processes.\n- Experience in managing packaging innovation and launches from opportunity identification, concept development, and viability assessment\n- Proven skills in partnership with R&D, Technical, Marketing, Packaging, Finance, and Commercial teams.\n- Strong command of pipeline management tools, workflow discipline, and post-launch analytics.\n- Growth and transformation mindset, agile, with ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.\n- Strong business and technical acumen; skilled in building business cases, delivering ROI, budget management, and navigating regulatory environments.\n\n**Communication focus:**\n\n- Acts as a key connector between Category, Country Marketing, Technical, R&D and supply chain teams, facilitating two-way knowledge transfer.\n- Socializes innovation opportunities, project progress, and pipeline updates with leadership, functional partners, and launch teams.\n- Champions best practice exchange; integrates feedback from markets to refine future pipelines.\n- Builds alignment through innovation gate process, and post-launch reviews.\n\n**Skills:**\n\nAct as a Change Agent, Business Case Development, Data Driven, Design Thinking, Influence Across the Network, Marketing Insights, Marketing Strategies, Market Innovation, Project Management\n\n**Location(s):**\n\nSingapore\n\n**City/Cities:**\n\nSingapore\n\n**Travel Required:**\n\n26% - 50%\n\n**Relocation Provided:**\n\nNo\n\n**Job Posting End Date:**\n\nNovember 25, 2026\n\n**Our Purpose and Growth Culture:**\n\nWe 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. 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