Country Lead: People & Culture Supply Chain at The Coca-Cola Company

Key Purpose

• The Country Lead: People & Culture: Supply Chain is accountable for enabling business success by shaping a high-performing, future-ready workforce. This role partners closely with Supply Chain leaders to translate strategy into impactful people solutions—accelerating talent, strengthening leadership capability, optimizing organizational design, and embedding a culture of performance, inclusion, and accountability. Through strong governance, cost stewardship, and transformation leadership, the role ensures people and culture are a true competitive advantage across the end-to-end supply chain.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Key Outputs and Accountabilities include, but not limited to:

Business Partnership, Leadership, and Governance

• HR Strategy Implementation: Oversee and tailor the HR strategy to meet current and future needs.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to labor laws and educate leaders on local practices.

Accelerating Talent

• Talent Development: Implement strategies to align with People & Culture and business objectives.
• Data-Driven Talent Acquisition: Use analytics to address talent challenges and build a skilled pipeline.
• Leadership Support: Anticipate future talent needs and localize sourcing strategies.
• Internal Talent Growth: Identify and develop high-potential employees for rapid growth and succession planning.

Cost Ownership

• Financial Accountability: Partner with Line to streamline operations and reduce labor costs.
• Reward Strategy Alignment: Maintain financial governance and ensure equitable reward practices.

Organizational Design for Growth

• Efficiency Optimization: Drive initiatives to optimize spans of control and management ratios.
• Change Management: Lead localization of change efforts and build change capability in leaders and employees.
• Team Effectiveness: Harness team strengths to develop capabilities for organizational objectives.

High-Performance Culture and Transformation

• High-Performance Mindset: Promote a culture of excellence across functions.
• Learning and Development Integration: Align initiatives with business strategies for continuous improvement.
• Employer Relations Support: Provide on-the-ground support to ensure a positive ER climate.
• Employee Engagement: Champion health, wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion programs.

Skills, Experience & Education    
Education 

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Industrial Relations, Business Administration, or related field
• Preferred: Postgraduate qualification or certification in HR, Organisational Development or Labour Law

Experience

• 10+ years of HR leadership experience in both operational and corporate settings, this role demands expertise in developing and implementing P&C strategies and talent acquisition across functions/regions.
• Must have a proven track record of leading change, leveraging digital advancements, and enhancing organizational practices. 
• Key experiences include aligning P&C with local business needs, driving cultural shifts, and advancing Diversity & Inclusion. 
• Experience managing the full P&C function in large markets, overseeing budgets, planning resources, and guiding organizational change critical.
• Thorough understanding of the Supply Chain process including Logistics, Planning, Manufacturing.
• Understanding of people productivity (including workforce planning, shift patterns and management of variable labour models)
• Experience working across multiple employee types (including contractors, permanent employees and casual labour)

Skills

• Strategic Leadership: anticipating business trends to formulate aligned, forward-looking strategies.
• Operational Agility: to fostering alignment and communication across diverse organizational layers.
• Talent Management Expertise: crafting adaptable talent strategies and addressing skill gaps.
• Change and Digital Leadership: steering digital transitions and organizational change.
• Business Acumen: merging P&C strategies with business objectives for operational growth.
• Culture Transformation: driving and embedding cultural shifts for enhanced collaboration.
• D&I Champion: developing and implementing diversity and inclusion strategies.
• Employment Law Expertise: Extensive knowledge of  employment laws
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Analytical skills for strategic decision-making based on data insights.
• Organizational Architect: designing structures for organizational flexibility and growth.
• Leadership Excellence: Demonstrates exceptional skills in motivating, guiding, and inspiring teams.
• Data & Analytics: Demonstrate capable analytical ability, data accuracy stewardship and deductive reasoning in translating analytics into meaningful insights and tactical actions.

Deadline:10th April,2026