# Agile PMO Lead

## About the Role

We are seeking a highly organized, strategic, and execution-focused **Agile PMO Lead** to serve as an orchestrator and value driver across important customer initiatives. This role partners closely with bottle and can customer partners, senior stakeholders, and internal Coca-Cola System teams to accelerate growth initiatives, improve execution discipline, and support strategic alignment across the business.

The Agile PMO Lead will act as a central coordination point between customers and internal teams, helping move high-priority initiatives from strategy to execution. This role requires strong project management, stakeholder management, communication, and business acumen. The successful candidate will help ensure that value- and volume-driving initiatives are clearly defined, effectively coordinated, properly tracked, and delivered with focus and accountability.

The ideal candidate is a proactive leader who can manage complexity, connect teams, clarify priorities, remove barriers, and provide clear updates to senior leaders. This person should be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed environment where customer needs, commercial priorities, operational execution, and strategic growth goals must be aligned.

## Key Responsibilities

* Lead and support value- and volume-driving initiatives with bottle and can customer partners and internal Coca-Cola System teams.
* Serve as a central coordination point for customer-facing growth initiatives, executional projects, and strategic priorities.
* Partner with customer teams, commercial leaders, bottling partners, supply chain teams, marketing, operations, finance, and other internal stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
* Translate strategic goals into clear project plans, workstreams, milestones, owners, timelines, dependencies, and success measures.
* Manage executional projects that support customer growth, volume expansion, commercial performance, operational improvement, and partnership goals.
* Facilitate agile planning, prioritization, status reviews, issue resolution, and decision-making across cross-functional teams.
* Help connect customer partners with the right internal stakeholders to accelerate progress and resolve barriers.
* Track initiative progress, risks, dependencies, open actions, key decisions, and performance indicators.
* Provide clear, concise, and actionable updates to senior leaders and key stakeholders.
* Support senior-level strategic alignment by preparing meeting materials, project summaries, leadership updates, dashboards, and executive-ready communications.
* Identify execution risks, roadblocks, ownership gaps, or misalignment and help drive timely resolution.
* Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support trust, accountability, and collaboration.
* Reinforce execution discipline through structured routines, clear follow-up, documented decisions, and consistent communication.
* Support growth initiatives by helping teams stay focused on priorities, commercial outcomes, customer needs, and measurable value.
* Improve project management practices, operating rhythms, reporting methods, and cross-functional collaboration processes.
* Ensure initiatives remain aligned with broader system priorities, customer commitments, business objectives, and company standards.
* Promote continuous improvement, operational excellence, and agile ways of working across customer initiatives.

## Required Qualifications

* Experience in project management, program management, PMO leadership, agile delivery, customer operations, commercial operations, sales operations, or a related role.
* Strong ability to manage cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, and business priorities.
* Experience working with senior leaders, customer partners, commercial teams, operations teams, or matrixed organizations.
* Strong communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear updates, facilitate meetings, and present information to leadership.
* Ability to translate business priorities into structured project plans and execution routines.
* Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
* Ability to identify risks, clarify ownership, track progress, and drive follow-through.
* Strong relationship-building skills and ability to influence across teams without relying solely on formal authority.
* Comfortable managing multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
* Strong problem-solving skills and ability to help teams move through ambiguity.
* Proficiency with project management, collaboration, reporting, and presentation tools.
* Commitment to accountability, execution discipline, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

## Preferred Qualifications

* Experience supporting large customer partnerships, beverage, consumer packaged goods, foodservice, retail, manufacturing, distribution, or supply chain initiatives.
* Experience working within or alongside a bottling system, franchise model, customer network, or complex commercial operating environment.
* Familiarity with agile project management, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, or hybrid delivery methods.
* Experience leading PMO routines, business reviews, executive status reporting, portfolio tracking, or transformation initiatives.
* Experience with growth initiatives tied to volume, revenue, customer expansion, market execution, or operational performance.
* Familiarity with tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Monday.com, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
* Experience preparing executive-level updates, dashboards, meeting materials, and decision summaries.
* Project management certification such as PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, Lean Six Sigma, or similar credential is a plus.
* Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, supply chain, marketing, project management, or a related field; equivalent experience may also be considered.

## Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a strong operator and connector who can bring structure, momentum, and clarity to complex customer initiatives. This person understands how to align stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and keep teams focused on the work that drives measurable business value.

They should be comfortable working with both customer partners and internal teams, helping translate strategic goals into practical execution plans. The right candidate will know how to create accountability without creating unnecessary complexity, and how to provide senior leaders with the right level of visibility at the right time.

This person should be proactive, collaborative, and highly organized. They should be able to anticipate issues, identify gaps, escalate risks appropriately, and help cross-functional teams stay aligned on growth priorities, volume opportunities, and customer commitments.

## Work Environment

This role will involve close collaboration with bottle and can customer partners, senior leaders, commercial teams, operations teams, bottling partners, marketing, supply chain, finance, and other Coca-Cola System stakeholders. The Agile PMO Lead should be comfortable working in a matrixed, fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and high visibility.

The position may involve meetings across teams, leadership reporting, project planning sessions, customer coordination, and ongoing initiative tracking. The successful candidate should be self-directed, professional, adaptable, and able to maintain strong execution discipline while supporting collaborative relationships.

## Compensation and Benefits

Compensation will be based on experience, qualifications, location, and overall fit for the role. Benefits may include:

* Competitive salary
* Full-time employment
* Health, dental, and vision benefits
* Paid time off
* Retirement plan options
* Professional development opportunities
* Collaborative, cross-functional work environment
* Opportunity to support high-impact customer growth initiatives
* Opportunity to contribute to strategic execution across a major global brand system

## Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, skills, and business needs. We are committed to maintaining a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative work environment.