Senior Manager, Innovation - PMO (ASEAN & South Pacific Operating Unit)

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

Location: Singapore

Job Summary

ASP OU Marketing is undergoing a step-change to deliver more balanced, sustainable growth, powered by deeper consumer intimacy, stronger integration, accelerated innovation, and data- and tech-enabled precision marketing. The organization is designed to combine local relevance with scale, shift data and technology from experimentation to competitive advantage, and operate with clear accountability for impact and ROI. All roles operate within a tightly integrated OU–Market model, where the OU elevates and enables strategic growth + OU-wide platforms while markets integrate, execute, and track performance with speed and rigor while developing local content, partnership and experiences.

Focus, Scope, & Impact

Based in Singapore, this individual contributor role will accelerate and orchestrate the innovation agenda across ASP by driving disciplined, end-to-end project management, governance, and operational excellence. Lead innovation governance, enable rigorous pipeline and project prioritization, and integrate new ways of working across the innovation system for sustainable, scalable growth.

• Lead innovation governance and enable rigorous prioritization:
• Serve as the operational backbone for the ASP OU Innovation organization, orchestrating innovation pipeline governance and prioritization routines.
• Integrate innovation management and project orchestration to ensure a consistent flow of winning innovations and disciplined, market-embedded execution.
• Embed tech- and data-enabled tools and processes to reinforce best-in-class innovation management and transparency across the system.
• Translate OU and market priorities into clear milestones, timelines, and deliverables—ensuring a healthy and executable innovation pipeline.
• Orchestrate rigorous end-to-end project execution:
• Ensure projects advance successfully through the stage-gate process—from concept validation to launch—while proactively managing risks, bottlenecks, and escalations.
• Coordinate routines, reviews, checkpoints, and disciplined reporting to drive project accountability and operational excellence.
• Enforce adherence to documentation, governance practices, and process standards.
• Marketing Orchestration & Cross-Functional Integration 
• Ensure seamless integration of innovation, marketing campaigns, platforms, and in-market execution. 
• Support Marketing leadership with insights, structured updates, dashboards, and progress tracking. 
• Foster a culture of learning, agility, and connected ways of working:
• Champion disciplined execution, rapid learning, and outcome-focused project management culture.
• Embed ongoing capability-building, process optimization, and best-practice sharing—leveraging tech-enabled and data-driven improvements.
• Foster a culture of disciplined execution, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  
  

Experience & Critical Requirements

• Proven experience 6-8+ years in leading complex, cross-functional projects/programs (in FMCG, innovation, or commercialization environments), ideally with regional exposure.
• Deep proficiency in project management, innovation governance, and pipeline prioritization.
• Experience in enabling process improvement and embedding tech/data solutions in project management.
• Excellent risk management, milestone tracking, and reporting acumen.
• Advanced influencing, stakeholder management, and cross-functional orchestration skills.
• Effective communicator and integrator, able to translate ambiguity into action and clarity.
• Strong command of pipeline management tools, workflow discipline, and post-launch analytics.
• Good business and technical acumen; able to understand business cases, asses project commercial and financial viability
  
  

Communication Focus

• Alignment and orchestration across Category, Packaging, Marketing, Technical, R&D, Commercialization, Finance, Supply Chain, and Global teams.
• Provides concise, actionable project updates, risk visibility, and strategic interventions to ASP OU and functional leadership.
• Leads routines, review forums, and best-practice embedding to foster a disciplined, tech-enabled, solutions-driven innovation culture.
  
  

About Coca‑Cola ASEAN & South Pacific

The Coca‑Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. The Coca‑Cola ASEAN and South Pacific (ASP) operating unit serves 25 countries across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands in ASP includes Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. We also offer a variety of water, sports, juice, dairy, and tea brands including Dasani, Mount Franklin, Wilkins, AdeS, smartwater, vitaminwater, Powerade, Fuze Tea, Minute Maid and Nutriboost. We’re constantly innovating and transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing new and exciting products to market. We seek to positively impact people’s lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we help bring economic opportunity to local communities across the region. Learn more at www.coca-colacompany.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The Coca-Cola Company: Refresh the World. Make a Difference

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Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15

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