Senior Director, Metals Packaging APAC

Location: Singapore - Singapore

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)

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.

Additional Locations: Philippines - Taguig City