Senior Director, Metals Packaging APAC

Job Description Summary:

Primary location: Singapore

Secondary location: Manila, Philippines

Role Type: Individual Contributor

The Senior Director, Metals Packaging APAC will be responsible for the development and execution of Metal procurement strategies for The Coca-Cola’s Cross Enterprise Procurement Group (CEPG) – with a specific focus on APAC region. This role requires an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of negotiating large complex multiyear volume/multicounty contracts, delivering savings, developing long term partnerships, managing diverse stakeholders, and securing the long-term health of the supply chain. The position reports to the Managing Director, Metals.

What You’ll Do for Us:

- Deliver results supporting the System’s profitable growth while maintaining a robust/reliable supply network

- Lead and influence internal stakeholders to implement Metal strategies on a regional basis, while collaboration w/ our global team highlighting our systems global buying power.

- Assess current and future business environments to determine if changes in objectives are required

- Develop Global Procurement Business Plans through leadership and ensure regional alignment and understanding of Business Needs with our bottling partners.

- Develop and execute negotiation strategies that deliver value against Coca-Cola System business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers

- Analyze complex business issues associated with contract negotiations using industry analysis and The Coca-Cola Company's historical experience to make business recommendations that mitigate risk

- Analyze industry trends to proactively identify supply base issues to minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities that benefit the Coca-Cola system

- Lead Supplier Relationship Management partnerships that generate business specific objectives and execute against objectives to generate shared value between organizations, that include continuous cost optimization for the Coca-Cola System

- Proactively contributes to the development/implementation of CEPG’s sustainable global strategies for Metal Packaging.

- Influence key stakeholders in the bottler system and within the Coca-Cola company up to the SVP/CPO levels.  Lead a matrixed team of procurement and technical personnel from the bottling community on projects.

- Influence suppliers' manufacturing processes, technology decisions and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations by leveraging the volume of the Coca-Cola system.

- Build alignment with internal stakeholder groups of the sourcing strategy and procurement process for products/services to identify business needs and to ensure compliance with operational standards.

- Develop relationships with management of strategically important global and regional suppliers to support and enhance the supply strategies of the KO system

- Influence global suppliers to address critical supply issues that could cause business interruption if not resolved expediently

- Support regional bottlers’ w/ metal related issues.

Qualifications & Requirements:

- University Degree or MBA preferred

- +10 years procurement experience, some of it in packaging

- Coca-Cola System Experience

- Metal can industry experience

General Activities and Requirements

- Establish productive relationships and work collaboratively with a highly diverse cultural and functional internal and external stakeholder groups, e.g. Bottlers, Suppliers, TCCC leadership, legal, R&D, Marketing, TCCC Business Unit technical and business leadership, etc.

- Build and develop relationships with peers and others to exchange feedback on product/service issues, identify and/or solve problems, assess needs, and/or achieve business results.

- Take continuous action to improve one's own knowledge, development and skills, and demonstrate an ability and passion to quickly learn industry specific fundamentals and value creation levels.

- Determine priorities for one's area of accountability to create clarity about focus and enable work to be completed efficiently

- Establishing Strategic Direction: Creating a clear view of the destination for the business; helping others understand how and why things need to be different; building commitment and inspiring action toward the destination

- Leading through Change: Communicates the need for change and a compelling vision of change; makes decisions and priorities consistent with change objectives; takes responsibility for the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace

- Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.

What can help you be successful in this role?

Growth Behavior:

- Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
- Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
- Externally 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 at a 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:
Business, Contract Agreements, Contract Negotiations, Global Procurement, Meeting Goals, Negotiation, Negotiation Strategies, organization, Performance Driven, Procurement Negotiations, Sourcing and Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Work Collaboratively

Location(s):
Singapore

City/Cities:
Singapore

Travel Required:
00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:
No

Job Posting End Date:
November 6, 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.