Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

January 31, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Director, Innovation Insights & Exploration

The Director, Innovation Insights & Exploration is responsible for shaping the Technical Innovation & Supply Chain (TI&SC) innovation agenda by identifying future‑focused insights, signals, and opportunities. This role combines data analysis, consumer and user understanding, and external trend sensing to inform evidence‑based innovation decisions. The successful candidate will translate complex data and foresight into clear opportunity spaces and strategic narratives. Strong analytical capability, storytelling, and cross‑functional partnership are essential. This role plays a critical leadership position in ensuring innovation investments are insight‑led and future‑ready.

What You’ll Do for Us

You will lead insight generation, foresight, and exploration activities that feed a robust and prioritized innovation pipeline for TI&SC. This role is responsible for uncovering unmet needs, emerging trends, and future scenarios using data, research, and analytics. You will partner closely with innovation, digital, and supply chain leaders to translate insights into opportunity areas, support strategic decision‑making, and guide early experimentation. You will also build repeatable methodologies and capabilities that embed insight‑driven innovation across the organization.

Insights, Foresight & Opportunity Identification

• Identify innovation insights through data analysis, consumer and user understanding, and internal operational data.
• Leverage quantitative analytics, research, and qualitative insights to uncover unmet needs, risks, and future opportunities.
• Lead horizon scanning across emerging technologies, supply chain, operations, and consumer behaviors to identify trends and disruptions.
• Develop future scenarios and foresight perspectives to inform short‑, medium‑, and long‑term innovation strategy.
• Translate insights and foresight into clear opportunity spaces, hypotheses, and problem statements.

Innovation Pipeline, Strategy Support & Capability Building

• Build and maintain an insight‑driven exploration pipeline that feeds innovation strategy and experimentation.
• Prioritize opportunities based on strategic relevance, potential impact, and feasibility in partnership with innovation and business leaders.
• Support early experimentation by identifying high‑value exploration areas in collaboration with Innovation Business Model, RtE, GDI, and Equipment teams.
• Provide insight‑based inputs to Innovation Committee and Innovation Council discussions through clear narratives, visualizations, and points of view.
• Establish tools, methodologies, and processes for foresight, exploration, and insight sharing across TI&SC.
• Act as a thought leader on data‑driven innovation, foresight, and future‑focused decision‑making.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Innovation, or a related field.

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in innovation strategy, insights, analytics, foresight, technology exploration, or related roles.

Technical & Professional Requirements:

• Strong skills in data analysis, research methodologies, and insight synthesis across qualitative and quantitative sources.
• Experience working in or with TI&SC, digital, data, or technology‑enabled environments.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
• Strong storytelling, visualization, and stakeholder engagement skills, including executive‑level communication.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate, and lead through ambiguity in cross‑functional environments.

What We Can Do For You

Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca‑Cola, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.

Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.

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.

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:

Agile Methodology, Business Process Modeling, Change Management, Cloud Platform, Communication, Data Flow Diagram, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Microsoft Azure Databricks, Microsoft Office, User Experience (UX)

Pay Range:

$164,000 - $193,000

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:

30

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.

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.

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. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.