Director, Sustainability

Job Description Summary:

The sustainability director leads the OU sustainability strategy execution and contributes to the development and communication of sustainability strategy, goals and objectives. As a sustainability leader role reporting directly to OU QSE lead will also have responsibility to achieve results in partnership with the bottling operations, corporate teams and other relevant stakeholders; will lead the capability development initiatives across the organization, drive the efforts to embed sustainability priorities in the business decision making and support OU/system ABP and LRP with relevant inputs for financial and operational planning.

The role is responsible to drive the Company governance framework, ensure compliance with KO and locally relevant regulatory requirements for operations and sustainability data reporting. This will be achieved by maintaining constructive relationships with relevant government agencies and other regulatory authorities, providing expertise to external organizations/committees with focus on packaging, water and climate topics and by ensuring access to internal and external innovation.

Job Description

• The scope of the role is operational sustainability leadership including water, carbon/climate and WWW/packaging for the J&SK OU and system partners.

• The role has direct impact and influence over the development of the optimum OU sustainability strategy and implementation plan in line with the global sustainability strategy and TCCS sustainability commitments.

• The strategic footprint of the role spans from OU TISC connecting end-to-end the design, collect, and partner pillars, set OU goals and roadmap for achieving WWW goals to a multilayer technical sustainability culture and capability development in collaboration with the relevant TCCS partners.

• The role supports the OU sustainability OPEX/CAPEX decisions and leads an organization of OU sustainability thought managers covering the functional areas: packaging, climate/carbon, water, waste management, circular economy and operational sustainability strategies.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Technical sustainability strategy: ensure within the global sustainability strategy and commitments the optimum and accelerated implementation of the OU sustainability strategy. Define and steward the OU sustainability strategy, commitments, initiatives and prioritization to implement the OU growth agenda. Ensure accelerated progress of sustainability commitments across water, carbon/climate and WWW/packaging while ensuring OU sustainability-by-design leadership in innovation and across the supply chain. Influence the OU sustainability agenda and investments.

• Governance, compliance: Ensure all license to operate and KORE sustainability requirements, OU governance is in place in line with the global governance framework requirements.

• Innovation: Ensure the technical sustainability innovation pipeline, technical sustainability agenda is in place, drive top and bottom-line growth and create competitive advantage. Lead the implementation support for all operational sustainability aspects that protect and enhance our regional and corporate reputation.

• OU sustainability network orchestration: Drive organizational alignment on operational sustainability across OU-Bottling partners and relevant functions. Active contributor to the Global Environmental Council. Champion KO System sustainability to enable business growth. Bring the external view in, drive external engagement and benchmarking, ensure leadership presence in industry associations.

• Determine the OU water risk management framework and priorities, work with business to drive water risk assessments and monitor water risks with focus on local operations

• Accountable to implement OU Science Based Targets (SBT) and action plans

• Provide technical guidance on establishing collection schemes in markets

• Influence and shape technical sustainability investment plans including complex analysis of cost, infrastructure (e.g.: collection and recycling) developments, strategic partnerships. Close collaboration with key stakeholders such as PACS, OU- and franchise system leadership teams.

• Connect with external and internal networks and stakeholders to drive performance and benchmarking efforts, shape forward looking strategies and transform people and organizational capabilities accordingly.

• Develop, implement and continuously improve the relevant performance models and systems to track risks and global mitigation plans.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Leadership experience in leading transformation programs and change management. Technical operations, manufacturing or supply chain and QSE operations experience > 10 years with people management experience.

Skills:

Compliance, Continuous Improvement, Energy Technologies, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Packaging Management, Packaging Systems, Water Management, Water Use

Location(s):

Japan

City/Cities:

Tokyo

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

July 26, 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.