Change Lead, IT - 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 Lead, IT based in Atlanta

Position Overview

As Global IT Change Lead you will be a senior change management professional responsible for the development and ownership of tactical change plans associated with Global IT leaders and teams, partnering with their key initiative leaders and teams as well as their clients and partners. You will partner with the Director of Change Operations, Change Execution Specialists, and the Global IT Communications team to develop long term visions and destinations for Global IT , and to develop and execute strategies and tactics associated with the roadmaps toward those destinations. In order to implement and make the change initiatives successful, you will have to influence and make recommendations to the Global IT senior leaders and below level, and guide the change teams you collaborate with in the intended direction, without direct management responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

Build long-term relationships with client leaders to help identify and agree on strategic priorities and roadmaps for initiatives and change to drive business value.

Create alignment across client leaders and partners to establish a clear vision/destination for client organization, partner with client leaders and subject matter experts to identify impacts and risks of changes agreed to.

Create, socialize and execute comprehensive change management plan, including impact assessments by stakeholder group, resistance and risk mitigation, measurement, structure, technology, skills and resources.

Partner with Communications Strategy Lead and 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.

Establish success measures associated with initiative and set targets for change/business readiness for key initiatives working with Director of Change Operations and function/line of business (LOB) leader.

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 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 HR Operations Change Lead you will deal with a lot of, mainly internal, communication complexities tied to impact, breadth and depth of change that is being implemented. Therefore, you will require strong strategic communications, visioning and influencing skills.

You will have to break large-scale change into tactical steps that are easy to execute and implement. As the process for change initiatives varies depending on the nature and culture of the impacted organizations, we are looking for an experienced project manager who is strong on execution and has the ability to manage ambiguity and communicate through change .

As you will work across all geographies of Global IT (global scope), business teams and environments, being multi-lingual will be helpful but is not mandatory. You will, however, profit from cultural sensitivity and an open mindset .

If you have a passion for innovation related to new ways to inspire high performance teamwork , introduce 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 mandatory, Master´s Degree preferred.

Related Work Experience: This role requires a minimum of 10 years´ deep experience in designing and implementing change in a rapidly changing environment. Experience in consulting and enterprise-wide change implementation is required. Also, you should be capable of pulling from a range of Organization Effectiveness and Change Management models, processes and tools in order to successfully drive the team´s efforts.

Functional Skills

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

Strong strategic communications.

Mature influencing skills.

Ability to balance immediate and short term needs whilst delivering results.

Good stakeholder understanding and management.

Planning and analysis, understanding detailed work analysis, business processes, financial business cases, culture and engagement measures, and desired behaviors.

Risk and mitigation planning.

Multi-lingual preferred but not mandatory.

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.