Director, Innovation - Packaging & Equipment (ASEAN & South Pacific Operating Unit)

Job Description Summary:

Reports to: Senior Director, Innovation – ASEAN & South Pacific Operating Unit

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

Based in Singapore, this individual contributor role will accelerate and champion the end-to-end packaging innovation agenda across ASP, pioneering new packaging solutions and platforms that enable sustainable, profitable growth and differentiation.

• Own and lead packaging innovation pipeline development:

• • Co-create and refine multi-year packaging innovation strategies and long-range plans with Packaging, Country Marketing and Commercial teams, Global teams, Technical, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sustainability, R&D, and other key stakeholders.
  • Drive opportunity identification through consumer, market, regulatory, sustainability, technical, and cost insights—translating these into robust innovation platforms and a healthy pipeline of concepts and projects.

• Orchestrate effective project execution:

• • Ensure rigorous E2E project management, from concept validation to launch and scale across multiple markets.
  • Accelerate validated packaging solutions to ensure full market readiness, manufacturability, operational feasibility, supply chain alignment, and regulatory compliance.
  • Ensure innovations meet clear consumer jobs to be done while aligning with system capabilities, sustainability requirements, and cost structures.
  • Serve as the packaging innovation champion and connector, enabling knowledge flow and collaboration across packaging, technical, procurement, commercial, and country teams.

• Embed business, commercial, and capability impact:

• • Deliver innovation that aligns with brand guardrails, sustainability goals, and system investment priorities, ensuring commercial, financial viability, compliance, and market fit.
  • Support robust business case development, facilitate cross-functional reviews, manage innovation risks and trade-offs, and drive resource allocation.
  • Ensure packaging innovations deliver clear business impact: growth, differentiation, margin enhancement, value creation, consumer recruitment, supply chain efficiency, and reduction of environmental footprint.

• Drive culture of performance, agility, and learning:

• • Drive accountability for packaging innovation performance—speed to market, quality and impact of launches, conversion of pipeline into measurable outcomes, and business results.
  • Foster a mindset of test-and-learn within teams, encouraging rapid iteration, scalable success, sustainability breakthroughs, and best practice sharing.
  • Embed robust post-launch reviews and continuous improvement, leveraging system feedback and external trends to optimize future pipeline quality, innovation velocity, and market relevancy.

Experience & Critical Requirements:

• Significant experience 8-12+ years in FMCG innovation, portfolio/project management, and cross-functional leadership, ideally with regional exposure.
• Deep expertise in category strategy, new product development (NPD), and commercialization processes.
• Experience in managing packaging innovation and launches from opportunity identification, concept development, and viability assessment 
• Proven skills in partnership with R&D, Technical, Marketing, Packaging, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Strong command of pipeline management tools, workflow discipline, and post-launch analytics.
• Growth and transformation mindset, agile, with ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.
• Strong business and technical acumen; skilled in building business cases, delivering ROI, budget management, and navigating regulatory environments.

Communication focus:

• Acts as a key connector between Category, Country Marketing, Technical, R&D and supply chain teams, facilitating two-way knowledge transfer.
• Socializes innovation opportunities, project progress, and pipeline updates with leadership, functional partners, and launch teams.
• Champions best practice exchange; integrates feedback from markets to refine future pipelines.
• Builds alignment through innovation gate process, and post-launch reviews.

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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.