Commercialisation Professional - 12 month FTC (UXBRIDGE)

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

What you become part of:

The Commercialisation team work closely with brand owners, CCEP GB teams and Central colleagues to deliver projects across CCEP’s portfolio. We collaborate extensively with The Coca-Cola Company, Commercial Development, Sales, and Finance. Similarly, Engineering & Technology, Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Logistics are key Supply Chain stakeholders.

What to expect:

The Commercialisation team are responsible for project managing business change initiatives across CCEP’s portfolio and work in two teams, with a Senior Manager leading each:

- Portfolio – driving innovation and managing the portfolio — across packs, brands, promotions, artwork, and reformulation — in partnership with Brand Owners, R&MGM, and Supply Chain.

- Supply Chain – site trials and Supply Chain solutions

The Commercialisation team members are responsible for leading their own projects; ranging in size, complexity and value from artwork changes to impactful manufacturing changes. Individuals develop robust relationships with their broad stakeholder group and provide expert counsel to Commercial and Supply Chain colleagues, they are accountable for successful project delivery and leading the project team.

This is an exciting, fast paced, and varied role. It will suit an organised, calm, methodical and patient individual who takes pride in developing technical understanding, has good judgment, and can simplify complex information for a senior audience. It is essential to that you are comfortable with ambiguity and have an accountability mindset.

Key responsibilities :

• Gather project teams together and lead meetings
• Facilitate decision making with a focus that balances cost and service
• Provide constructive challenge to colleagues and stakeholders
• Maintain a robust stakeholder management plan
• Achieve alignment across Supply Chain, TCCC and the Commercial Development teams
• Understand and draw attention to interdependences between projects and how they cost and service
• Lead communication on projects: clarifying scope, timelines, challenges, and highlighting risk to enable effective decision making

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Previous experience in an FMCG environment, typically with experience in either Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales & Marketing or Project Management
•  A robust understanding of the bottler model, the relationship between Supply Chain functions….or, a detailed understanding of the Coke System and the interaction with Commercial Development, Sales and Supply Chain functions
• Proven track record in Project Management of complex initiatives projects or a record of managing change and influencing stakeholders across a matrix organisation
• Strong initiative for problem solving and framing alternative solutions
• A willingness to develop at pace
• Lead & Can Do attitude: positively influence others to achieve positive outcomes
• Foster collaboration: work effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance the organisation
• Plan: determine strategies to move the team forward, set goals, create and implement actions plans, and evaluate the process and results.

The closing date for applications is 13/04/2026. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, 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 recognise 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. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.