Primary Location: Gurgaon, India
Role Type: Individual Contributor
The Coca-Cola Company is a 140-year-old total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. We are challenging ourselves to think, act and work differently and ensure that we constantly demonstrate a growth mindset. The people agenda always plays a critical role in this transformation and includes transforming that way we attract and retain talent. This senior individual contributor role requires expertise in attracting various talent profiles across multiple countries while acting as a trusted talent advisor to the business. Recruitment expertise, team collaboration and proactively delivering against Coca-Cola’s overall talent strategy will be critical in this role. Our ideal candidate will have a history of building strong relationships with senior level stakeholders, the ability to understand and adapt recruiting strategies in complex markets to generate outstanding results while providing excellent stakeholder experience. If you have a thirst for leadership and a drive to find great talent, then we would love to meet you.
The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition (Individual contributor) is responsible for overseeing Coca-Cola India & Southwest Asia Operating Unit’s (INSWA OU) end-to-end Talent Acquisition cycle. This role also owns and manages our best-in-class Management Trainee program in India and leads the Mantra Internship program in close collaboration with the Marketing team, ensuring the attraction and development of high-potential early career talent. In this role, you will be responsible for driving a streamlined TA process as well as the actual execution of the Talent Acquisition strategy in partnership with the People & Culture (P&C) partners and the business. Reporting to the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition APAC, the candidate will join the networked team and the INSWA OU HR Leadership team and partner with the P&C team and Business in taking a proactive role to recruit external talent with the mindset of right fit for current and future roles.
What You’ll Do for Us:
Responsible for driving the recruitment process for internal and external talent in support of business needs today and in the future. This role will drive and execute end-to-end recruiting and consultation; including market research, building robust pipelines for critical skills, sourcing, talent assessment, interview and offer management.
Work with our system partners to enable system talent exchange for talent and business needs. Beyond filling roles, the role is accountable for building durable talent pipelines, scalable programs, and shared TA capability that the entire INSWA system can draw on. Involved in a broader set of key initiatives, including managing employer branding initiatives and internal referral programs.
Foster and maintain relationships with key partners and leadership to understand business objectives and key skills needed to support company growth. Provide external insights on the talent market (i.e. demographic trends, employment projections) and develop holistic talent attraction, sourcing and hiring strategies.
Deliver recruitment priorities leveraging both internal and external talent channels while collaborating with Talent, HR and Leadership teams.
Identify, develop and implement innovative sourcing and talent mapping strategies for key roles and critical skills that result in quality talent pipelines to meet workforce needs aligned to business objectives,
Partner with internal teams (local and global) on identifying and executing operational efficiencies.
Support Coca-Cola’s initiatives and objectives by attracting talent through strategic sourcing to ensure Coca-Cola continues to be a top destination for talent.
Own and manage our best-in-class Management Trainee program (e.g. campus and platform partnerships) through multi-stage evaluation, selection, onboarding and alumni engagement, and leads our Mantra Internship program, in partnership with Marketing.
Qualifications & Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
8 plus years’ experience with a history of success recruiting qualified talent in a complex global environment and/ or recruitment search firm. Early careers experience is preferred.
Experience influencing executives across various disciplines, functions and geographies.
Strong sourcing capability and ability to act as a talent ambassador.
Strong operational experience with recruitment tools and processes.
Ability to apply business acumen and drive operational excellence while anticipating and adapting to changing needs of the business.
Demonstrates a strong digital-first mindset, with an understanding of how technology, data, and digital tools can be leveraged to drive business performance and innovation.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, required.
What can help you be successful in the role?
Growth Behavior:
Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
Externally Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.
Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high-performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.
Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and at a fast pace.
Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.
Leadership Behavior
Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.
Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders
Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential.
Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.
What We Can Do For You
Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.
Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.
International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.
Location(s):
India
City/Cities:
Gurugram
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date:
September 8, 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.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
