Senior Manager, IMCR

Senior Manager, IMCR

The Senior Manager, IMCR is a key connection to strategically leverage the company sustainability initiatives in the context of customer opportunities. In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of the Quality and Food Safety Systems by assuring compliance, including implementation, monitoring, trend analysis, and reporting requirements through the application of appropriate regulatory, processing, and technical principles. This role will need to work with teams to develop and execute a comprehensive strategy that includes activations and communications that increase or retain sales and promote our sustainability goals. We're looking for a seasoned individual with prior experience in a science related role to join our team.

What You'll Do for Us

• Drive implementation of The Coca-Cola Quality System (KORE) and ensure products, packages, ingredients, services, fountain operations and production facilities comply with the requirements of KORE and local regulations, through directing the development and implementation of effective quality programs throughout the geography.
• Monitor the effectiveness of Quality and Food Safety programs to ensure 100% compliance with quality principles, policies, and standards of the Company in all bottling plants through end-to-end Quality / Food Safety Assessments and ensure that corrective action / continuous improvement plans are developed.
• Develop and implement business plans to execute company's and Business Unit's Quality & Food Safety strategy including compliance tracking, approval of the suppliers & consultants, review / approval of the designs with in the plant, follow-up new technologies / trends, and investigate / share the best practices and their applications onsite; offers solutions to technical problems and provides guidance on Quality & Food Safety matters.
• Provide technical expertise to bottling partners, co-packers and other stakeholders for establishment of new plants, processes and line investments and conducts technical validation programs together with plants in order to qualify and authorize new or modified process systems and / or equipment.
• Manage product and package quality performance in the market and improve quality and supports implementation of periodical market surveys done by bottler; conducts trade planning & management (TPM) studies annually with bottler and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Provide guidelines to beverage plants on various sampling requirements of The Coca-Cola Company and facilitates the plants by creating liaison between them and company / 3rd party laboratories.
• Develop new processes and quality system applications, identifies technical investment needs and monitors the effectiveness of developments in order to provide new category products manufacturing capability in bottling plants.
• Provide technical guidance to Business Unit Marketing, Commercialization, R&D teams and Bottler Operations for new product / package launches and system / line start-ups and coordinates Bottler Team for trouble shooting of product formula related and process related problems.
• Create master mixing instructions and all required data for bottling plants to produce the new products in accordance with product formula and company requirements.
• Conduct regular technical plant visits to support and monitor quality and manufacturing processes and provides an integrated technical support, expertise and guidance during the implementation.
• Trains front line leaders for KORE requirements, laboratory analyses, manufacturing processes and quality system.
• Build a process for sustainability engagement with customer account teams in Retail and Food Service & On-Premise (FSOP) to identify and evaluate potential customer partnership opportunities specifically focused on increasing sales.
• Assists in the development of a coherent customer sustainability strategy through collaboration and technical advocacy with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Manages and / or conducts audits of fountain customers to evaluate conformance to the standards and specifications for beverage quality and food safety.

Qualification & Requirements

What We Can Do For You

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. Pay Range : $131,000 - $153,000 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. 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.