Manager, ASP Packaging, GDI

Location(s):

Singapore

City/Cities:

Singapore

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Yes

Job Posting End Date:

March 27, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Location: Singapore CPS Plant

Role Type: Individual Contributor

Immediate Manager: Senior Director, Packaging Development, GDI

Please note: The selected candidate will need to be based in Singapore CPS Plant. This is an Individual Contributor position.

Our APAC Innovation Center sit at the heart of The Coca-Cola Company’s next chapter of growth. We are committed to transforming and evolving our organization and ambitions — bringing our people closer to the consumer, continuously raising the bar, and embracing digitalization to enable sustainable growth. We are looking for a highly driven individual contributor who thrives on ownership and impact, and who fuels the innovation pipeline with bold ideas that translate into real-world results. This role is not about maintaining the status quo; it is about challenging assumptions, unlocking opportunity, and personally driving valuable breakthrough innovation. You will apply deep packaging development expertise to lead ideas from concept to execution, contributing to a strong and diverse portfolio of meaningful innovation — accelerating growth and helping shape the future of the organization.

The Manager, Packaging Development (ASP) is responsible for independently leading the development, and optimization of packaging solutions across plastic, metal, glass, and secondary packaging formats for the APAC Operating Units. Working within the ASP Global Development & Innovation (GDI) organization, the role drives end-to-end initiatives and ensures alignment with business priorities (bottom line, top line, and sustainability), consumer insights, and system capabilities and ensures alignment with business priorities, consumer insights, and system capabilities. The Packaging Manager applies strong technical expertise to deliver high quality, commercially viable packaging and drives original thinking that brings clear business value. The role includes identifying relevant packaging technologies and trends, assessing their applicability, and developing solutions that strengthen performance, cost, sustainability, and consumer experience.

This position collaborates extensively with cross functional teams including marketing, TISC (Technical Innovation & Supply Chain), quality, procurement, and Bottling Partners to ensure packaging solutions meet technical, operational, regulatory, and commercial requirements. The Packaging Manager influences decision making by providing sound technical recommendations and by building strong relationships across functional areas. Scope includes the full packaging development cycle: idea generation, design, prototyping, testing, validation, and qualification, handing over to TISC for commercialization. The Packaging Manager solves complex or ambiguous technical challenges, ensures robust risk assessment and mitigation in packaging decisions, and contributes to building technical capability across the Operating Unit through knowledge sharing and best practice transfer. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, apply independent technical judgment, and work proactively across functions to identify opportunities and deliver impactful packaging innovations without direct people management responsibilities.

What You’ll Do for Us:

Packaging Development & Innovation

• Lead end‑to‑end development of new packaging across plastic, metal, glass, and secondary packaging formats, from idea generation through design, development, pilot, trials, and qualification.

• Identify and leverage emerging packaging technologies, consumer insights, and technical research to deliver packaging that enhances value, performance, sustainability, and consumer experience.

• Drives re‑application of proven concepts from the Coca‑Cola Global Packaging network and adapt them for local market needs.

• Drives original thinking and develops novel concepts with clear business and consumer value

Technical Expertise & Problem Solving

• Apply strong, independent technical expertise across packaging materials, performance testing, and machine material interface requirements to ensure robust, manufacturable solutions. ‑material interface requirements to ensure robust, manufacturable solutions.

• Solve complex and ambiguous technical problems by developing practical, data‑based recommendations that consider cost, quality, sustainability, and operational feasibility.

Cross Functional Leadership (Influence-Based)‑Functional Leadership (Influence-Based)

• Collaborate closely with key functions and bottling partners to align on packaging needs and ensure successful commercialization.

• Influence decision making by contributing technical assessments, risk evaluations, and solution recommendations across multiple functions. ‑making by contributing technical assessments, risk evaluations, and solution recommendations across multiple functions.

People Leadership

• Leads by example; Coaches and supports others, sharing expertise and constructive feedback.

External Collaboration & Technology Scouting

• Engage with design agencies, universities, consultants, suppliers, and innovation partners to explore new materials, formats, and enabling technologies.

Sustainability & Compliance

• Ensure packaging solutions meet safety, regulatory, and sustainability standards and support the Operating Unit’s broader sustainability objectives.

Project & Portfolio Management

• Manage multiple packaging development projects simultaneously, ensuring milestones, risks, and deliverables are tracked and communicated.

• Prepare technical documentation, trial plans, test protocols, specifications, and qualification records to support commercialization.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Packaging Engineering, Materials/Polymer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field.

• At least 5y of relevant experience

• Advanced Project Management: Developing ability to lead complex projects that involve cross-functional teams. Includes the ability to manage large budgets, broad scopes, multiple suppliers, and/or team members from partner companies.

• Advanced Packaging: Developing advanced knowledge of packaging materials and the related production processes. This includes knowledge of material compatibility, supplier processes, standards, and specifications.

• Demonstrated ability to innovate and think strategically.

• Excellent communication skills and a global mindset.

• Basic understanding of safety and regulatory affairs.

• Clear understanding of intellectual property laws and patent interpretation.

• Language proficiency: Native or Business fluency in English & a local language.

What We Can Do for You:

Purpose With Impact

• We take a purpose‑driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment, strengthen the communities we serve, and deliver safe, high‑quality products every day. Your work will contribute directly to creating positive changes.

Global Collaboration & Learning

• You’ll be part of a globally connected organization where ideas, expertise, and innovation flow freely across regions. This environment enables you to learn from others, accelerate your growth, and contribute to solutions that scale worldwide.

A Community of Belonging

• We foster a culture where people feel safe, valued, and empowered to bring their best selves to work. We believe that diverse perspectives and an inclusive environment drive better outcomes—for our people and our business.

Competitive Rewards & Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits package, with core benefits beginning on your first day. We are committed to supporting your wellbeing, growth, and long‑term success.

Candidate Attributes:

Critical to our growth is the development and recruitment of modern technical leaders who will demonstrate specific growth behaviours. The key candidate attributes we will be seeking are:

• Curious — Keep seeking, never settle.

Staying curious about what is outside, and two steps ahead inspires us to challenge the status quo. Having the courage to look and leap is the way we grow. Because asking “what if?” pushes us to the next level as people and as a company. 

• Empowered — Make it happen.

True empowerment is the result of taking responsibility. This means giving yourself permission to see it, say it and do it, and owning the outcomes. Because we move forward faster when we all take action. 

• Agile — Push for progress, not perfection.

There are very few overnight successes. Greatness is borne of many little victories (and failures). Share v 1.0, test it, and make it better. Then create the next version. Because the moment we think something is perfect, it will be obsolete. 

• Inclusive — Include, value, and trust each other.

We are smart alone but together we are genius. This means being inclusive, giving the benefit of the doubt and being responsible for each other. Because, for our company to thrive for the next 100+ years, smart is not enough. We need genius. 

Why Join Us?

• Impact at Scale: Shape products enjoyed by millions across diverse APAC markets.

• Global Connectivity: Access world-class technical expertise, innovation labs, and global R&D networks.

• Digital Future: Lead with next-gen tools — from AI-driven formulation insights to virtual product design.

• Creative Freedom: Drive innovation that blends science, consumer desire, and brand vision.

• Legacy: Be part of a team building the future of beverages, with agility, ambition, and excellence.

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.

• Commercially 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.

Skills:

Chemistry, Communication, Continual Improvement Process, Data Compilation, Environmental Science, Food Safety Management, Food Sciences, Food Technology, Green Solutions, Laboratory Testing, Leadership, Microbiology Laboratory, Product Development, Quality Control (QC), Researching, Sensory Processing, Waterfall Model

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.