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MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP). We have 39,000 people serving 4 million customers in 31 markets. We combine the strength and scale of a large, multi-national business with an expert, local knowledge of the customers we serve and communities we support.  We invest, employ, manufacture, and distribute locally.

In Australia, our portfolio includes the Coca-Cola family of products and well-loved brands such as Sprite, Fanta, Monster and Mother Energy, Mount Franklin, Powerade, Billson’s, and Grinders Coffee.

Role Purpose

This role is the Commercial Leadership Team's PMO and Chief of Staff function, driving the operating rhythm, governance, prioritisation and execution cadence of the Commercial function.

The role ensures strategic priorities are translated into clear plans, initiatives are governed through effective decision-making forums, and cross-functional teams remain aligned on commitments, dependencies, risks and outcomes. Acting as the connective tissue across Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain and Marketing, the role creates visibility, accountability and momentum behind the Commercial agenda.

This role owns the governance architecture, leadership calendars, planning cadence, program steering and executive reporting required to enable effective decision-making and delivery of Commercial priorities.

It is a permanent full time role based in our North Sydney head office. 

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Leadership Office & Governance

• Act as the PMO and Chief of Staff for the Commercial Leadership Team, coordinating priorities, strategic initiatives and leadership rhythms.
• Own the Commercial operating cadence, including leadership forums, planning sessions, business reviews, governance meetings and decision-making forums.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, including charters, decision rights, escalation pathways, meeting standards and accountability mechanisms.
• Ensure leadership forums focus on decisions, actions and outcomes rather than status reporting.
• Coordinate executive communications, reporting and leadership materials to ensure a consistent narrative across the Commercial function.
• Track strategic decisions and commitments, ensuring follow-through and visibility of progress against agreed actions.

Portfolio Planning & Strategic Prioritisation

• Govern the Commercial portfolio of strategic priorities, ensuring initiatives align to enterprise strategy, growth ambitions and resource capacity.
• Facilitate prioritisation discussions and strategic trade-off decisions across competing initiatives and investment opportunities.
• Maintain an integrated view of major initiatives, milestones, dependencies, interconnections and risks across the Commercial function.
• Drive annual and in-year planning processes, translating strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps and delivery commitments.
• Ensure leaders have visibility of emerging risks, capacity constraints and execution impacts to support informed decision-making.
• Support scenario planning, prioritisation reviews and resource allocation discussions.

Program Management Office (PMO)

• Establish and lead PMO disciplines across Commercial strategic initiatives and transformation programs.
• Drive program steering routines, milestone reviews, dependency management and risk governance.
• Maintain portfolio-level reporting, providing clear visibility of status, risks, decisions required and delivery confidence.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve blockers, manage dependencies and maintain momentum against strategic priorities.
• Ensure initiatives have clear sponsorship, governance, success measures and implementation plans.
• Escalate delivery risks and unresolved decisions to senior leaders in a timely manner.

Operating Rhythm & Performance Management

• Establish and continuously improve the Commercial operating system, including routines, planning cycles, governance forums and performance review mechanisms.
• Drive execution discipline through structured tracking of actions, milestones and strategic commitments.
• Monitor progress against key Commercial priorities and ensure corrective actions are implemented where required.
• Develop executive dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide transparency of performance, delivery progress and organisational health.
• Support the preparation and facilitation of leadership offsites, strategy sessions and business reviews.

Continuous Improvement & Ways of Working

• Drive simplification and continuous improvement of Commercial governance, planning and decision-making processes.
• Improve the quality, speed and consistency of leadership reporting and strategic planning outputs.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation and digital tools to improve operating efficiency, planning effectiveness and decision quality.
• Champion best-practice program management, governance and organisational effectiveness disciplines across the Commercial function.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency and execution excellence.

Measures of Success

• Commercial Leadership Team operates with a clear, effective and predictable operating rhythm.
• Strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans with clear ownership, timelines and governance.
• Leadership forums are decision-led, resulting in timely alignment and action.
• Portfolio risks, dependencies and resource constraints are surfaced and addressed proactively.
• Strategic initiatives deliver against agreed milestones and outcomes.
• Executive stakeholders have clear visibility of progress, risks and decisions required.
• Governance, reporting and planning processes are streamlined, scalable and broadly adopted.
• Improvements in organisational effectiveness, decision speed and execution discipline are demonstrated.

About You

• Experience in PMO, Chief of Staff, strategic planning, business operations, transformation or strategy execution roles within a complex matrix environment.
• Strong track record supporting executive leadership teams and driving organisational priorities through governance and operating rhythms.
• Experience leading portfolio management, program governance, business planning cycles and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple senior stakeholders and influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Exceptional organisational, prioritisation and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong commercial acumen combined with structured program and project management capability.
• Ability to create clarity, alignment and momentum in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Highly proficient in PowerPoint, Excel and executive communication.
• Experience with portfolio management, collaboration and workflow tools (e.g. Smartsheet, Monday.com, Jira, Power BI, Copilot) desirable.
• PMO, project management or transformation certifications desirable (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, MSP, Lean Six Sigma).