Reports to: Sen Director QSE Operations
Direct Reports: 0
This role is responsible for the end-to-end definition and execution of QSE programs, ensuring operational robustness and strict compliance with European food safety, quality, environmental, occupational health & safety, and social responsibility regulations for ingredients and primary packaging suppliers. Based on the global and OU QSE strategy, set goals and roadmap for suppliers for Europe for achieving QSE excellence goals.
Operating under the governance of the Senior Director QSE Operations, the Director drives delivery excellence and execution discipline, ensuring suppliers and markets remain QSE-ready and compliant with both internal strategies and external relevant regulatory requirements.
Strategic QFS Leadership & Continuous Improvement
Define and steward the technical Quality and Food Safety (QFS) strategy, policies, commitments, initiatives and prioritization to implement in line with the global and OU QFS agenda with suppliers. Influence the QFS agenda and investments at suppliers.
Innovation: Contribute to the global networked organization QSE Innovation pipeline and ensure the regional/OU innovation agenda is in place, drive top and bottom-line growth and create competitive advantage through suppliers’ development. Lead supplier authorization processes with the implementation of all technical operational QSE aspects that protect and enhance our corporate reputation.
Technical sustainability strategy: Define initiatives and prioritization to implement global and OU sustainability agenda, connected with business needs. Ensure accelerated progress of sustainability commitments across KO priorities – including water, carbon/climate and WWW/packaging while ensuring OU sustainability-by-design leadership in innovation and across the supply chain. In collaboration with OU sustainability this role influences the sustainability agenda and investments at suppliers.
Franchise & System Capability Development
System Partnerships: Work directly with bottling partners, CEPG and cross-functional OU teams to verify that system capabilities meet company standards, regulatory requirements, and consumer expectations.
Crisis & Incident Management: Own resolution of QFS incidents due to failures at suppliers. Support troubleshooting, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Corrective Action Planning (CAP) for QFS-related risks at suppliers.
Qualification & Experience
Proven ability to lead, coach and develop teams and individuals, fostering a culture of collaboration, trust, accountability and high performance
Cross-functional communication: Collaborate and coordinate with functions including OU Technical and Supply chain team, CEPG, corporate QSE team, Bottling partners, CPS, external parties, key customers (McDonald’s, Burger King etc.)
Senior leadership experience in leading supplier development programs and scale transformation programs, change management, is a plus.
French language skills are considered an advantage, but are not essential.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business Administration or a related field is required. An advanced degree is preferred; however, demonstrated leadership impact and relevant experience will be strongly valued.
The chance to drive meaningful impact across food safety, quality, safety, sustainability, innovation and performance.
This job description outlines the general nature and responsibilities of the role. Duties may evolve based on business needs. All information is confidential and intended for internal hiring purposes within the Europe Operating Unit.
Communication, Continual Improvement Process, Critical Control Points, Food Chemistry, Food Safety and Sanitation (Inactive), Global Collaborations, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Microsoft Office, Packaging, Process Control, Process Engineering, Product Specifications, Quality Assurance Systems, Quality Inspections, Quality Metrics, Quality Reporting, Shipping, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Supply Chain, Waterfall Model
Location(s):
France
City/Cities:
Issy Les Moulineaux
Travel Required:
26% - 50%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date:
July 20, 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 to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30
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