Coca-Cola

Senior Director, Cyber Solutions & PMO operations

Coca-Cola$195K — $226K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years delivering large, complex enterprise technology programs in global organizations.
  • Proven success in leading multi-year, multi-workstream programs with significant budgets and executive visibility.
  • Deep experience in PMO operations, including planning, risk management, and financial oversight.
  • Strong technology fluency across cloud, data, application, and infrastructure domains.
  • Working knowledge of AI concepts and experience in Cyber, Risk, or Compliance programs are advantageous.
  • Proven ability to lead through influence across a matrixed organization.
  • Exceptional executive communication skills with experience preparing decision-ready materials.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of the cyber defense and enterprise resilience modernization program.
  • Establish and maintain the program charter, scope, and success criteria with enterprise leaders.
  • Drive execution to committed milestones by unblocking teams and escalating decisions.
  • Run disciplined program-management operations including integrated planning and risk tracking.
  • Manage program budget and forecast rigorously, collaborating with Finance and Procurement.
  • Prepare executive reporting materials ensuring clear visibility into program progress and risks.
  • Lead a virtual program team of stakeholders and subject-matter experts without direct authority.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates.
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities.
  • Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary:

Overview

The Sr. Director, Cyber Solutions & PMO Operations leads the delivery of a large, multi-year program to modernize cyber defense and enterprise resilience across The Coca-Cola Company. The role is accountable for the end-to-end program management of this initiative - charter, plan, milestones, dependencies, risks, budget, and executive reporting - and for the disciplined PMO operations that keep a highly complex, highly visible program on track.

A defining focus of the program is Artificial Intelligence - both leveraging AI to modernize the Company's defensive capabilities and enterprise resilience, and hardening the Company against AI-enabled threats and misuse. The Sr. Director orchestrates the work of Cyber, Enterprise Technology, business, and external delivery partners to ensure this modernization delivers measurable outcomes at Coca-Cola scale.

This is an individual-contributor role. The Director leads through influence rather than direct authority, working across a networked global organization to align senior stakeholders, remove obstacles, and drive execution. The role reports to the Senior Director, Cyber Defense / Deputy CISO within the Chief Information Security Office.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership

  • Own end-to-end delivery of the cyber defense and enterprise resilience modernization program, translating executive vision into a clear multi-year roadmap, milestones, and measurable outcomes.


  • Establish and maintain the program charter, scope, dependencies, and success criteria in partnership with the CISO, Deputy CISO, and enterprise technology leaders.


  • Sequence workstreams and investments across a portfolio of interdependent initiatives, ensuring the program stays coherent as priorities and technology shift.


  • Drive execution to committed milestones, actively unblocking teams and escalating decisions to keep the program on pace.


PMO Operations

  • Run disciplined program-management operations: integrated plan, dependencies, budget and financial tracking, resource plan, RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Decisions), and change control.


  • Manage workstream intake, prioritization, and dependency governance across the program's portfolio of initiatives, ensuring new demands are sequenced against capacity and critical path.


  • Design and stand up the program's governance structure (steering group, decision forums, working sessions, and escalation paths) with clear decision rights, cadences, and accountability appropriate to a highly visible enterprise program.


  • Set standards for planning quality, artifacts, and metrics across the program's workstreams; hold workstream leaders to those standards through influence, coaching, and executive visibility.


  • Manage the program budget and forecast with rigor, partnering with Finance and Procurement on approvals, capitalization, and vendor spend.


  • Own the program's executive reporting capabilities (dashboards, scorecards, milestone narratives, and executive reporting materials) ensuring leadership has continuous, decision-ready visibility into program progress, risks, investment performance, and value delivered.


AI Enablement & Defense Focus

  • Ensure the program consistently identifies opportunities to leverage AI - including agentic and automation capabilities - to modernize defense, resilience, and operations.


  • Ensure the program's designs and deliverables address defense against AI-enabled threats, AI misuse, and emerging AI risks in partnership with the CISO organization and the AI Risk Governance Council.


  • Coordinate with the Chief AI Office, Data & AI, Legal, and Privacy so that AI-related program decisions are consistent with the Company's broader AI risk and governance posture.


Enterprise Technology Integration

  • Partner with the CISO leadership function leads, Platform Services, Data, IT Core, and Application Owners to ensure program deliverables integrate cleanly with the Company's technology landscape.


  • Bring practical, hands-earned experience of large enterprise technology delivery to program decisions - architecture trade-offs, build-vs-buy, cloud adoption, integration, data, and change adoption.


  • Ensure program deliverables are designed and delivered with resilience, operability, and long-term supportability in mind.


Executive Engagement & Stakeholder Management

  • Serve as the program's senior operating leader with executive stakeholders across the CISO organization, Enterprise Technology, Finance, Legal, Privacy, HR, Communications, and the Bottling System.


  • Prepare and deliver clear, executive-framed reporting to the CISO, Deputy CISO, and enterprise leadership on program progress, risks, and decisions required.


  • Support steering committee and board-adjacent updates with credible narratives, data, and options.


  • Build durable trust with senior leaders so that difficult trade-offs can be surfaced and resolved quickly.


Vendor & Delivery Partner Management

  • Manage relationships with major implementation and technology partners, holding them accountable to outcomes, SLAs, and value delivered.


  • Coordinate with Procurement, Legal, and Privacy on contracts, statements of work, change orders, and third-party risk requirements.


  • Balance the mix of internal and external delivery capacity to keep the program cost-effective and on pace.


Cross-Functional Influence

  • Lead a virtual program team of workstream leaders, subject-matter experts, and delivery partners without direct-reporting authority.


  • Set clear expectations, hold others accountable, and coach workstream leaders on program-management practice.


  • Build consensus and alignment across functions with different priorities, timelines, and operating styles.


Continuous Improvement

  • Continuously improve the program's planning, reporting, and operating practices, and share those improvements across the CISO organization where useful.


  • Capture and act on lessons learned across the program's phases and workstreams.


  • Support post-implementation reviews and the transition of new capabilities to steady-state operations.


Qualifications

  • Minimum 15+ years of progressive experience delivering large, complex, highly visible enterprise technology programs in global organizations.


  • Demonstrated success leading multi-year, multi-workstream programs with significant budgets, complex dependencies, and executive-level visibility.


  • Deep experience running program-specific PMO operations, including integrated planning, RAID management, financials, and executive reporting.


  • Strong enterprise technology fluency across cloud, data, application, and infrastructure domains; able to engage credibly on architecture, build-vs-buy, and integration trade-offs.


  • Working knowledge of Artificial Intelligence concepts and how AI is reshaping enterprise technology delivery; direct cybersecurity expertise is not required, but experience delivering programs adjacent to Cyber, Risk, or Compliance is a plus.


  • Proven ability to lead through influence - aligning senior stakeholders and driving accountability without direct-reporting authority.


  • Experience operating across networked, matrixed, global organizations and complex partner ecosystems (e.g., bottling systems, franchisees, or analogous partner networks).


  • Experience managing major implementation and technology partners, and coordinating with Finance, Procurement, and Legal on large-scale delivery.


  • Exceptional executive communication skills, with a track record of producing crisp, decision-ready materials for senior leaders.


  • Relevant certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PfMP, SAFe, Prosci, or ITIL are preferred; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.


Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field required.


  • Master's degree, MBA, or advanced professional credential (PgMP, PMP, or equivalent) highly desirable.


  • Apply an Enterprise Mindset - Connect program outcomes to brand, consumer trust, growth, and the resilience of the Coca-Cola System.


  • Influence Across the Network - Align diverse stakeholders and drive accountability without direct authority.


Reporting Relationship

  • Reports to the Senior Director, Cyber Defense / Deputy CISO, within the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) organization.


  • No direct reports; leads a virtual program team of workstream leaders, subject-matter experts, and delivery partners through influence.


Location

  • Atlanta, GA (Global Headquarters)


  • Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates.


Travel

  • Estimated 15-20% travel, including domestic and international sites, operating units, and partner engagements as required by the program.


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:

Pay Range:
United States of America: 195,500 USD - 226,800 USD

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.

Location(s):
United States of America

City/Cities:
Atlanta

Travel Required:
00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:
Yes

Job Posting End Date:
August 14, 2026

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