Senior Director Occupational Safety LATAM

Job Description Summary:

We aspire to be the best safe place in the world and continue foster a Business Growth Culture with focus on our people.

The purpose of this role is to develop and implement a Safety Transformational Strategy across LATAM aligned with our Global Strategy in a very dynamic context across the Region, leading a H&S Culture step change and an accelerated progress of our System Capabilities, Infrastructure and programs while ensuring best-in-class leadership and network orchestration through partnership, governance and innovation across our Supply Chain focus on Manufacturing and Distribution

Help us make a difference in shaping the Safety and Occupational Health Strategy for Coca Cola LATAM!!

We are actively seeking for a bold and visionary leader to steer our LATAM Occupational Safety team as a Director. This challenging yet rewarding role demands a forward-thinking professional experienced in leading large-scale safety culture transformations.

Key Responsabilities:

- Elevate the long-term strategy and the Step Change Plan, implement quick wins, and the mid-term initiatives for Safety Culture Transformation in Latin America, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, such as Bottlers, Vendors, Public Policy, and Government Agencies;
- Champion Safety and Health organizational strategies, infuse your innovative ideas, and embed a proactive safety culture deep into our operational processes and company values.
- Shape, steward, and fast-track safety initiatives across the Operating Unit, ensuring optimal alignment with our global Occupational Safety and Health commitments.
- Create a ripple effect of change and influence across safety governance, compliance, and innovation schemes, all aimed at protecting our employees and elevating our regional and global reputation.
- Take charge of essential organizational and capital expenditure decisions related to occupational safety.
- Demonstrate adaptive leadership in managing safety incidents and crisis resolution.
- Act as a true business partner to go above and beyond the role to embed Safety in the business and make connections between Safety and business outcomes (short/long term)

- The following areas define the key focus of the role:

- Safety and Health strategy: As a key member of the LATAM QSE leadership team, ensure within the global occupational safety and health strategy and commitments the most optimum and accelerated implementation of the LATAM occupational safety strategy. Ensure accelerated progress of the S&H systems and programs while ensuring best-in-class leadership through partnership, governance and innovation across the B4L supply chains. In collaboration with Corporate, TI&SC functional heads, Customer & Commercial, Franchise Bottlers, Occupational Safety Lead influences the OU and regional S&H agenda and investments.
- Governance, compliance: Ensure all license to operate and KORE sustainability requirements, OU governance are in place in line with the global governance framework requirements.
- Innovation: Ensure occupational S&H innovation initiatives. Lead the implementation support for all S&H aspects that protects our people and enhances our regional and corporate reputation.
- OU Safety and Health network orchestration: Drive organizational alignment on operational S&H across Regions, Bottling partners and Corporate S&E. Active contributor in the Global S&E Council. Champion KO S&H and overall Culture and Strategies in the Regions to enable execution and culture development. Bring the external view in, drive external engagement and benchmarking, ensure leadership presence in industry associations.
- S&H culture and performance excellence: Lead the occupational safety and health culture transformation to ensure excellence is a core value embedded in everything we do across the system. The Occupational Safety Lead will direct the overall OU S&H culture transformation to build and manage the excellence performance enablement systems and programs. Responsible to improve our System KPIs performance and progress that accelerates business results.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Technical/Safety operations > 8 – 10 years of experience
- Proven track record in leading large-scale transformation and managing change from a safety culture viewpoint. We invite potential candidates from diverse industries – including, among others, Chemical, Oil & Gas, Automobile, and Pharmaceutical;
- Strong external perspective, tapping into your previous experiences in other industries different for non-alcoholic beverages, and safety culture practices to propose and implement transformative safety measures applicable to our business framework.
- Proven leadership expertise with a distinguished history in directing large-scale transformations and orchestrating effective change management programs.
- Deep-rooted operational experience (in Manufacturing or Logistics) combined with a strong foundation in setting up and running Health & Safety Leadership and Management systems.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of simplifying and translating complex concepts into tangible business insights.
- Ability to influence, inspire, and foster a culture of safety and empathy within diverse teams.
- Resilient and agile, ready to leverage crisis situations towards creating long-lasting improvements.
- Languages: Spanish and English

If you are passionate about Safety and Occupational Health and to influence safety culture positively across a system, driving change and growth, we want to hear from you.

Skills:
Business, Communication, Compliance, Cultural Transformations, Health Safety (Inactive), Influencing, Interpersonal Leadership, Leadership, Occupational Health, Personal Initiative, Safe Operation, Safety Culture

Location(s):
Mexico

City/Cities:
Mexico

Travel Required:
26% - 50%

Relocation Provided:
No

Job Posting End Date:
September 29, 2026

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.