Senior Manager, Product Development - Juices

Job Description Summary:

Senior Manager, Product Development – Juice Category LATAM

At Coca-Cola, every employee is a leader. In the Juice Category across LATAM, that means shaping product strategy with a strong enterprise mindset, translating consumer and business needs into winning technical solutions, and leading cross-functional teams through complexity with clarity and courage.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Product Development to lead the development and renovation agenda for the Juice Category in LATAM. This role goes beyond strong technical product development expertise. It requires a leader who can connect consumer understanding, category strategy, R&D depth, operational reality, and stakeholder alignment to deliver scalable, high-quality, and commercially successful juice, nectar, and juice drink solutions.

The ideal candidate brings expertise in fruit juice systems and/or beverage development, along with the leadership maturity to make difficult trade-offs, influence across the network, and move initiatives forward in a highly interconnected environment.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the product development and execution for Juice Category initiatives across LATAM, from early concept shaping through commercialization.

• Translate consumer understanding, business, and market insights into product solutions that are technically feasible, commercially relevant, and regionally scalable.

• Drive a holistic R&D approach, integrating formulation, processing, regulatory, quality, sensory, packaging, scale-up, cost, and supply considerations from the start.

• Partner across Marketing, Regulatory, Quality, Procurement, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercialization, and bottling partners to build alignment and accelerate decision-making.

• Make clear recommendations on key trade-offs involving speed, quality, cost, complexity, scalability, and consumer experience.

• Lead development and renovation of juice, nectar, and juice drink portfolios, including reduced-sugar, functional, and value-optimized platforms.

• Understand beverage systems, food processing, ingredient functionality, sensory performance, shelf life, and manufacturing feasibility.

• Guide teams through pilot trials, plant trials, and commercialization, ensuring strong technical rigor and execution discipline.

• Build credibility with senior stakeholders through clear technical storytelling, data-based recommendations, and enterprise-oriented decision-making.

• Strengthen category capability by coaching and developing product developers and technical talent across the Juice network.

• Act as a leader who can challenge constructively, make courageous choices, and keep teams focused on what matters most for the business.

• Leadership

Skills

• Required for This Position

This role requires a leader who can operate beyond technical excellence and consistently demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Strategic thinking – Connects individual projects to broader category, business, and LATAM growth priorities.

• Apply Enterprise Mindset – Makes decisions based on what is best for the enterprise, not only for one function, market, or short-term project need.

• Stakeholder alignment – Builds trust and alignment across technical and business functions, especially in a complex matrixed environment with multiple priorities.

• Courageous decision-making – influence across network, making difficult calls, surfaces trade-offs clearly, and takes accountability when priorities conflict or ambiguity is high.

• Leadership presence – Communicates with clarity, brings structure to complexity, and creates confidence with senior leaders, peers, and cross-functional partners.

• What Will Make You Successful

• You think beyond your immediate project and make decisions with the enterprise, category, and market mindset.

• You connect consumer needs with technical development choices.

• You move fluidly between strategy and execution, from portfolio priorities to formula and plant realities.

• You create alignment across functions, especially when priorities conflict.

• You are comfortable making decisions in ambiguity and taking accountability for difficult calls.

• You bring both technical depth and leadership presence.

• Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Food Technology or related field required; Master’s degree or PhD preferred

• 8+ years of product development experience in the beverage industry, with preference in juice drink categories.

• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional product development projects from concept to launch.

• Desired expertise in fruit ingredients, sweeteners, additives used in juice systems.

• Strong knowledge of non-carbonated beverage processing, including blending, pasteurization, aseptic processing, filling, and scale-up.

• Experience navigating regional complexity including different markets, plants, bottlers, and regulatory environments.

• Strong understanding of sensory, quality, and consumer relevance in fruit-based beverage development.

• Ability to influence across a matrix and align technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complexity into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

• Why Join Us

• Shape the future of the Juice Category in LATAM through meaningful innovation and renovation.

• Work on high-impact, cross-market initiatives with strong enterprise visibility.

• Join a collaborative environment where science, consumer understanding, and business thinking come together.

• Grow as a leader in one of Coca-Cola’s most dynamic and complex product spaces.

• Skills:

• Chemistry, Communication, Continual Improvement Process, Data Compilation, Environmental Science, Food Safety Management, Food Sciences, Food Technology, Green Solutions, Laboratory Testing, Leadership, Microbiology, Product Development, Quality Control (QC), Researching, Sensory Testing, Waterfall Model

• Location(s):

• Mexico

• City/Cities:

• Ciudad de Mexico

• Travel Required:

• 00% - 25%

• Relocation Provided:

• No

• Job Posting End Date:

• November 14, 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.