Change Execution Specialist - CocaCola - Atlanta, GA

Position Overview:
About The Coca-Cola Company

Everyone knows Coca-Cola. It’s the best-known product in the world. We’ve been making it since 1886 and it still tastes the same.

As a business, The Coca-Cola Company is constantly evolving – we develop new products, acquire great brands and pioneer new ways of doing things. We sell four of the world’s top five non-alcoholic sparkling drinks (Coke, Coke light, Sprite and Fanta) and 3,600+ products in over 200 countries, including water, juices, energy drinks, and even tea and coffee. Altogether, that adds up to more than 1.9 billion drinks around the globe every day.

Global Business Services (GBS)

GBS, The Coca-Cola Company’s Global Business Services, is a multi-functional internal shared-services provider for a wide range of transactional services across all Coca-Cola business units within functional areas such as: Finance, Procurement, Human Resources, Change Practice, Workplace, Operational Excellence, Data Governance, User Experience & Content, Controls & Compliance, and Creative Business Solutions. Our GBS main locations are Warsaw (Poland), Drogheda (Ireland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), San José (Costa Rica), Manila (Philippines), and Atlanta (Georgia, USA).

With a highly capable and diverse team of currently approximately 1200 associates, we are providing services to our business units in the Americas, Europe, Eurasia & Africa, and Asia Pacific. On top of that we deliver a number of select services to Coca-Cola operations across the globe. In our focus to drive productivity for the world’s largest beverage company, we use the latest Cloud based technology in our GBS Hubs.

We offer our associates:
The Coca-Cola Company’s extraordinary heritage, our leading brands and the global scale of what we do.

The challenge of meaningful work – our unique global system offers constant opportunities to develop world-class skills and a truly international career.

A unique culture where people do what they love and live their values.

The kind of competitive compensation you would expect from a world leader.

At The Coca-Cola Company, our people have their own formula for turning passion into action. Together, that’s how we push the world’s greatest brands to new heights. What’s your secret formula?

Change Execution Specialist based in Atlanta

Position Overview

As Change Execution Specialist you will be a junior change management professional resp onsible for the execution support of tactical change plans associated with a client function or GBS Line of Business (LOB) in partnership with the Global Change Lead and project teams.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with Global Change Leads to execute comprehensive change management plans, including impact assessments by stakeholder group, resistance and risk mitigation, measurement, structure, technology, skills and resources.

Partner with Communications Specialist to develop and execute communications plan tied to change initiative, including key messages, vehicles, and routines connecting to GBS Communications processes, relationships and routines.

Partner with GBS Capability Deployment and Training Strategy Lead to develop and execute training program to support change initiative, including materials development, geographic coverage/approach for trainers, training.

Track success measures associated with initiative and set targets for change/business readiness for key initiatives working with Change Leads and Client partners.

Status against change initiative plans and progress using standard Global Change Practice status reporting capability, visual management boards, participate in Global Change Practice management routines.

Participate in initiatives Project Management routines and processes.

Steward progress, issues, themes and results of change program with Change Leads, client leaders, Global Change Practice leaders.

Collaborate and actively participate in Global Change Practice routines, processes and activities, build community and visibly demonstrate change leadership capability.

What you can expect

Being part of a driven and highly motivated with global impact in which you can add real value for one of the world’s most successful companies.

Working with a truly international group of stakeholders and peers.

Being part of a growing global organization that is striving to get better every day.

A great place to work with authentic and creative people looking to make a positive change.

What you need to be successful

As Change Execution Specialist you will require strong communications skills and be able to influence and provide recommendations to program or project leaders and teams.

As you will work across a number of geographies, business teams and environments, you will profit from cultural sensitivity and an open mindset .

If you have a passion for innovation related to new ways to i ntroduce and sustain new ways of changing and operating for clients, and agreeing to and implementing new processes and systems , you are just the one we´re looking for.

Education: Bachelor´s Degree

Related Work Experience: This role requires a minimum of 3-5 years´ experience in executing change in a rapidly changing environment. Experience in consulting and enterprise-wide change implementation will help you to be successful, as well as an ability to pull from a range of Organization Effectiveness and Change Management models, processes and tools.

Functional Skills

Certification in Change methodology (e.g. ADKAR/Prosci certification) and PMP preferred, ACMP (Association of Change Management Professionals) and IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) preferred.

Balance immediate and short term needs, deliver results.

Strong verbal and written communications.

Strong project execution capabilities.

Solid understanding of business processes and stakeholders, financial business cases, culture and engagement measures, desired behaviors.

Risk and mitigation planning.

Multi-lingual helpful but not required.

Leadership Behaviors

Drive Innovation

Collaborate with System, Customers and Key Stakeholders

Act Like an Owner

Inspire Other

Develop Self and Other

That sounds appealing? Then start now – TASTE THE FEELING . Please submit your application (CV and Cover Letter) in English.

At The Coca-Cola Company you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.

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.