Senior Manager, APAC Control Tower, GDI

Location(s):

Singapore

City/Cities:

Singapore

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

March 27, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Location: Singapore

Role Type: Individual Contributor

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

Our APAC Innovation Centers 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.

As Senior Manager, Control Tower, GDI, you will ensure compliance to existing innovation tools and processes to drive innovation excellence and achieve TCCC strategic goals. You will continuously assess/improve tools and processes to ensure agility, efficiency, and speed to market. You will be a key contributor to the team engagement in facilitating ways of working through digitalization and connect with the other Innovation Centres Control Tower to bring harmonization and leverage synergies.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Set up and manage tool and routine to track and monitor resource allocation, bring visibility to leadership to facilitate efficient resource allocation aligned with priorities across OU’s and Global/local categories.

• Manage the Innovation Centre OPEX and CAPEX budget to enable to deliver regional and global priorities.

• Coordinate and maximize tax and grants initiatives, collaborate with relevant government agencies to maximize incentives and support for TCCC innovation efforts.

• Track, monitor and analyze innovation performance metrics together with the TISC and Marketing PMO. Define, track, monitor and analyze additional performance metrics specific to the Innovation Center. Report gaps vs plan to leadership to enable to pivot with agility and deliver our commitment.

• Lead the design and execution of Innovation Center visit experiences by aligning agendas to business priorities and measurable impact.

• Lead Innovation Sessions across Operating Units in partnership with OU connectors, driving cross‑pollination of best practices and maximizing impact on the innovation pipeline.

• Coordinate technical post project reviews and documentation to ensure continuous improvement

• Create escalation board to highlight risk of delay to OU and leadership. 

• Document and share Innovation Center successes to bring more visibility on achievements.

• Co-lead with the other Innovation Center Control Tower the Innovation Center Way of working network to exchange good practices across centers.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Food Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.

• 8–10 years of experience in beverage/food industry

• Proven success in delivering innovation that balances consumer appeal, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills across diverse cultures.

• Ability to:

  • Think end-to-end across initiatives and influences priorities aligned with strategy.

  • Encourage creativity within the team and removes barriers to idea generation.

  • Leverage internal and external resources smartly.       

  • Solves complex, ambiguous problems and anticipates downstream impacts.

  • Coaches and supports others within and outside of the team.               

  • Makes timely decisions with incomplete information while managing risk.

• Fluent in English; regional languages a plus

• Regional travel up to ~20%.

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, Product Development, Quality Control (QC), Researching, Sensory Testing, 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.