Senior Manager Business Operations
0801 the coca-cola
📍 us - georgia - atlanta united states🕐 19d ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**Job Description Summary:**
The vision of Enterprise Services (ES) is to deliver services that are simpler, better, and faster. The Senior Manager, Business Operations is a key leader within the ES Strategy & Operations team, responsible for driving operational excellence at scale, leading complex initiatives, and delivering high-priority products that create measurable value for the enterprise.
This role requires a hands-on approach to operational deployment, with a strong ability to understand the details of how technology can improve business operations. The Senior Manager will leverage their experience in implementing technology-driven solutions to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, ensuring enterprise priorities are translated into impactful outcomes.
The role is focused across two primary areas:
* **30% – Lead product planning, prioritization, and execution governance**
* **70% – Drive delivery, optimization, and value realization of enterprise-critical products and solutions**
**Key Responsibilities**
**Lead Product Planning and Execution**
* Develop, refine, and implement playbooks, standards, and operating models to enable consistent, scalable delivery across the ES portfolio.
* Drive enterprise product planning cycles by translating business priorities, customer needs, and technology capacity into actionable roadmaps and execution plans.
* Lead portfolio assessment and prioritization activities, evaluating initiatives based on strategic alignment, value, risk, complexity, and resource requirements; provide clear recommendations to senior leadership.
* Oversee execution of assigned initiatives, proactively managing risks, dependencies, and trade-offs while ensuring accountability for outcomes.
**Deliver High-Priority Products and Solutions**
* Translate enterprise and functional strategies into scalable products and solutions with clearly defined problems, success metrics, and delivery plans.
* Partner with senior business and digital leaders to identify emerging needs and lead the hands-on deployment of technology solutions that address critical business challenges and opportunities.
* Drive delivery of complex initiatives on compressed timelines, ensuring strong cross-functional alignment, disciplined execution, and measurable business impact.
* Monitor solution performance, adoption, and value realization; lead efforts to optimize capabilities and inform next-generation product development.
**Stakeholder Leadership and Influence**
* Serve as a trusted partner to business and technology leaders, providing insight, structure, and guidance across initiatives.
* Communicate progress, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders through concise, data-driven materials.
* Contribute to the development of team capabilities by mentoring junior talent and modeling strong enterprise and collaboration behaviors.
**Education Requirements**
* **Required**: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
* **Preferred**: Master’s degree or advanced coursework in business, analytics, product management, AI, or technology leadership.
**Qualifications & Requirements**
* 5+ years of relevant experience in business operations, digital or technology transformation, consulting, analytics, or program leadership roles.
* Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in partnership with Digital and technology teams.
* Demonstrated hands-on experience in operational deployment of technology solutions to improve business processes and outcomes.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive recommendations and influence outcomes.
* Advanced proficiency in analytics, reporting, and visualization tools to support operational and leadership decision-making.
* Ability to operate independently in fast-paced, ambiguous enterprise environments.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience supporting senior-level stakeholders.
* Experience working in global, matrixed organizations preferred.
* Ability to balance strategic perspective with hands-on execution and operational detail.
* Collaborative leadership style with a strong enterprise mindset.
**Functional Skills**
**Core**
* Start with the End User
* Tell the Story
* Align the Resources
* Design for Scale
* Execute and Improve
**Targeted**
* Hands-on Operational Deployment of Technology Solutions
* AI Product & Operations Enablement
* Enterprise Business & Technology Planning
* Portfolio and Performance Management
* Quantitative Analysis and Data-Driven Storytelling
The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.
**Skills:**
**Pay Range:**
United States of America: 0 USD - 0 USD
_Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered._
**Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:**
15
_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._
**Location(s):**
United States of America
**City/Cities:**
Atlanta
**Travel Required:**
00% - 25%
**Relocation Provided:**
No
**Job Posting End Date:**
July 17, 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](https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/purpose-and-vision) to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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