Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

26% - 50%

Relocation Provided:

Job Posting End Date:

May 30, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

The role of Corporate Development is to enhance the Company strategies to grow the core business by identifying assets, partnerships or restructuring opportunities that will accelerate the growth, efficiency and capabilities for our System. We identify and pursue opportunities in line with defined priority areas based on an understanding of our criteria for value creation and risk parameters, resources allocation priorities, and key financial and strategic metrics.

Job Description Summary:

This role is a key contributor to the Corporate Development mission. The role supports the identification of opportunities based on an understanding of the external environment and Company priorities. Once identified, this role is primarily responsible for coordinating the assessment of external opportunities, developing financial and benchmark analysis to develop a recommendation, making value recommendations, leading due diligence, participating in negotiations and engaging key internal and external stakeholders throughout the assessment and execution process. Position requires strong business acumen, strategic thinking, communication and influencing skills and an ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

What You’ll Do for Us: 

Gather internal and external data to create valuation models to support the development of a business case for transaction or partnership opportunities across various business types.

Perform financial analyses to assist in exploring strategic options, developing creative solutions to complex business issues, and/or supporting decision-making

Partner with functional experts across the company to ensure all relevant information is taken into account in developing a business case and executing a transaction with the appropriate level of input from the organization, including all risks and opportunities.

Build and manage internal and external relationships to advance projects and transactions quicker and more efficiently.

Manage, coordinate and lead projects including the due diligence process while managing third party providers to ensure business case items are validated, risks identified, and operational factors required for success are identified.

Analyze key diligence findings identified and evaluate the level of risk, implications to business case and transaction documents, and required mitigation plans in partnership with key internal stakeholders.

Participate in negotiations and make recommendations that ensure transaction parameters remain within defined risk parameters, provide input to definitive agreements and work closely with M&A Legal, and external advisors Tax to ensure business and governance considerations are appropriately captured.

Understand documentation requirements and maintain comprehensive documentation of all transactions and approvals to ensure availability for future reference and audit purposes.

Ensure all internal approvals are obtained, and all processes are executed to ensure proper accounting, treasury, regulatory, communications and tax processes are in place upon execution of transaction.

All of this should be underpinned by clear, data driven communication in verbal and written form

Qualifications & Requirements:

Education: Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience, professional certification and/or post graduate education preferred.

Related Work Experience: Minimum 7-9 years of relevant experience required

Role will require up to 50% international travel

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Consumer Focus: Demonstrating understanding of how one’s actions and/or work impact the Company’s relationship with consumers.

Business Valuation: Knowledge of business valuation techniques. This includes knowledge of forecasted cash flows and appropriate discounting methodology, and due diligence.

Economic and Financial Theories: Knowledge of economic and financial theories (e.g., Interest Rate Parity Theory, Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)) needed to determine discount rate in financial analyses and impact of economic environment on valuations.

Valuation Methodologies: Knowledge of the theories of valuation and the various methodologies involved. This includes knowledge of the technical and financial components of valuations and how to apply the appropriate valuation theory.

Financial Analysis: Ability to perform financial analyses to assist in exploring strategic options, developing creative solutions to complex business issues, and/or supporting decision-making. This includes the ability to perform unique analyses and analyses that require the application of single or multiple financial and non-financial concepts and tools (e.g. , NPV, IRR, Discounted Cash Flow, statistical analyses, economic analyses, loss projection, exposure analysis).

Determining Financial Impact: Understanding the financial consequences of decisions; understanding economic value for the system; acting as an owner of the business and making decisions that ensure long- term value.

Financial Transaction Policies: Knowledge of the Company’s policies and procedures related to deals.

Key Value Drivers: Knowledge of the Key Value Drivers of the Company business.

Growth Behaviors

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. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.

PERFORMANCE DRIVEN AND ACCOUNTABLE: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

FAST/AGILE: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace. Embraces change.

Skills:

Pay Range:

$164,000 - $193,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

30

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.

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.

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