Director People

LATAM OU

Director People & Culture - Finance & Strategy

Why being part of Coca Cola Latin America?

We're accelerating our momentum as the fastest growing large consumer goods company in Latin America.

People are our focus when we're collaborating with our diverse network of locally connected bottling partners, and when we're returning every drop of water we use to communities and nature. We empower our employees to challenge the status quo, make bold recommendations, experiment and adapt, so we can grow together and make a great business even better.

The Director People & Culture Finance & Strategy role is an opportunity to partner with function leaders and co-build people strategies to best meet the needs of the business. The role combines internal client consulting, external market outreach, and immaculate problem solving into a single mix of design and delivery.

This role represents high visibility learning opportunity for a talent who wants to get into People strategy, analytics, processes, and project management experience in their career.

In this position you will play a key role in driving the organizational culture within the Finance & Strategy communities while capturing frequent feedback from teams and stakeholders. It requires passion for organization and discipline yet remain comfortable and flexible within frameworks to develop creative solutions to ambiguous problems.

Position Overview:

As a Director People & Culture you will be responsible for partnering with the Finance & Strategy OU Leaders and extended community by facilitating the People & Culture plan execution.

• Acts as coach and trusted advisor for the Finance & Strategy leadership team to improve leadership inspiration, organizational effectiveness, leading change, organization design and building capabilities.

• Direct responsible of the global, regional and local implementation of our people strategy and people scorecard, leverage on the Company Purpose, Leadership Definition & Growth Behaviors.

• Co-accountable of the end-to-end Talent, Learning and Rewards global processes in partnership with the Latam OU Talent & Development and Total Rewards teams.

• Direct responsible of the continues evolution of our Diversity and Inclusion strategy, practices and targets.

• Co-accountable of the culture and engagement moonshot implementation.

• Partners with People Services to ensure compliance and continuous improvement of our HR systems, processes, policies, procedures, plans, and programs are in place and effectively utilized.

• Partners with the Global Finance & Strategy People & Culture teams to align and standardize practices across TCCC, support the leaders to prepare the global talent pipeline and ensuring development and career options to leverage the capabilities for the future.

• Co-lead the Talent Resource Allocation for agile projects in the new network organization, aiming to accelerate career and development experiences.

• Responsible to continue building People Management capabilities through current processes (eg Employee Experience, PE, Wellbeing, Rewards & Recognition, Engagement, etc).

• Participate on dynamic Resourcing and Big Bets LATAM initiatives.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:

• Support leaders to drive high engagement and high-performance environment.

• Master business and people decision making through a data and fact-based approach, and the use of data analytics.

• Ability/experience in development of business strategies, preferably in HR.

• Experience in the development and managing projects and create executive business cases.

• Ability to manage diverse and multiple stakeholders in a matrix organization and multicultural environment.

• Ability to understand, balance, prioritize and develop compelling approaches to best meet the needs of the business.

Qualification & Requirements:

• Strategic thinker and problem solver - can bring structured thinking to complex topics. 

• Ability to understand, balance, prioritize and develop compelling approaches to best meet the needs of the business.  

• Consistently creates win-win with key stakeholders (business leaders, HR function and bottlers). 

• Highly collaborative working style with ability to deliver results. 

• Strong communicator - written and verbal. 

• Ability to manage diverse and multiple stakeholders in a matrix organization and multicultural environment. Network Organization mindset. 

• Flexibility and capacity to juggle many items concurrently.  

• Ability to master business and people decision making through a data and fact-based approach. 

• Ability to hold their own with Senior Leadership. Strong decision-making skills.

• Passion for People Management. 

Experience & Background:

• 12+ years of Human Resources experience, consulting, organizational development and talent management, people planning & processes, in a multinational company. 

• Experience in developing and managing projects and create executive business cases preferably in HR.  

• Business Acumen. 

• Strong stakeholder management. 

• Experience designing team building and critical team experiences for the business.

• Coaching and change management capability. 

• Project management, agile and design thinking. 

• Should be technology savvy and able to work effectively in a digital first world. 

• Language Requirements: English is a must; Spanish or Portuguese are required;

Communication Focus:

*Inside KO:   *

• OU Strategy & Finance Leaders 

• Global Finance & Strategy HR Community 

• Talent & Development, Total Rewards, Global Mobility  

• OU and other functions SBP's 

• Non-Latam Global/ OU HR SBPs 

*Outside KO: *

• Regional/ Local HR Community at our Bottling partners. 

• Human Resources vendors and suppliers.  

• External HR network.  

• Local Community network.  

• Other HR BP's across industry 

Location: * *

Open location for LATAM region. No budget Relocation.

What We Can Do For You:

• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging technologies and techniques. 

• Inclusive Workplace: T he Coca-Cola Company is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We value and celebrate diversity, which leads to a stronger, more competitive company that can better serve our customers and communities.

• *Community of Belonging: * We're an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.  

Skills Performance Management (PM); Leadership; Results-Oriented; Influencing; Talent Management; Talent Development; Talent Acquisition; People Strategies; Human Resources (HR); Coaching; Team Coaching; HR Analytics; Executive Leadership; Business

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.