Associate Director, Central Talent Acquisition Delivery Lead (UXBRIDGE)

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 markets, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world.

Job Purpose

The Associate Director, Central Talent Acquisition (TA) Delivery Lead will drive large‑scale TA strategic projects to enable business transformation. Responsible for design, operational set up and deployment that meets both the short term and long term business hiring demands, strengthens TA organisational effectiveness provides excellent TA service delivery across CCEP globally.

The role owner will lead a number of Strategic TA projects that drive adoption of new technologies which include AI across the TA function aiming to improve efficiencies and operational effectiveness, and enhance employee and candidate experience.

As a trusted partner to senior business & People & Culture stakeholders and the Director of TA, the role owner ensures Talent Acquisition strategies, processes, and capabilities meet both current and future business needs, enabling scalable, high‑quality hiring aligned to the organisation’s strategic objectives.

As part of the Central TA team and a key member of the TA Leads Community, the role holder promotes aligned ways of working, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the Talent Acquisition function This role will be part of the succession plan for the Director TA role.

Job Accountabilities

TA Transformation Projects

• Lead and deliver global strategic and sensitive TA projects across multiple regions, capabilities and stakeholder groups.
• Drive adoption of new TA technology across markets ensuring efficiencies are delivered through leveraging AI and building TA capability. 
• Translate TA strategy into executable delivery plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure effective governance, risk management, and progress tracking across Projects.

Stakeholder & Change Management 

• A trusted TA advisor to senior business leaders to ensure hiring meets business requirements by bringing data, labour market insights and commercial understanding.
• Drive adoption of new processes and capabilities through structured change management and engagement approaches.

TA Organisational Effectiveness

• Review and assess TA organisational effectiveness to ensure alignment with business strategy and growth priorities.
• Partner with TA Leads and P&C stakeholders to design and implement TA initiatives that balance global consistency with local market needs.
• Recommend and implement improvements to structure, workflows, and ways of working to improve speed and quality of hiring.

TA Capability Development & Enablement

• Design and roll out global TA capability programmes covering skills, behaviours, tools, and methodologies required for best‑in‑class delivery.
• Drive AI & digital capabilities across TA community unlocking efficiencies and enhanced candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Bring outside in thinking to ensuring CCEP’s TA capabilities are best in class and future-ready, enabling best market practices and digital innovation.

Required experience

• Experience leading Talent Acquisition change projects in a global or multi‑regional environment.
• Experience managing complex global programmes of change with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to design and deliver recruiter capability programmes.
• Hands‑on experience with TA systems and tools, preferably with Eightfold’s TA Module.
• Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders and regional and global teams.
• Experience developing communication strategies to support change and adoption.
• Potential to step into larger TA roles in the future.
• Advanced verbal and written English skills.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 markets, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.
From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognize we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth.