Job Description

About Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP)

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler, with over 42,000 colleagues, operations in 31 countries across three continents, and more than 600 million consumers served daily.
We make, move, and sell the world’s most loved drinks: including Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Monster, Costa Coffee, and a growing portfolio of low and no-sugar beverages while driving sustainable growth through innovation, operational excellence, and a deep commitment to our people and planet.

Our ambition is clear: to create long-term sustainable value by delivering excellent service to our customers, empowering our people, and achieving our target to reach net zero emissions by 2040.
CCEP’s Procurement CoE in Sofia is a key enabler of this ambition, bringing together diverse, high-performing teams that deliver procurement capabilities across Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.

Job Purpose

As part of the Procurement Centre of Excellence, the Contract Management team is accountable for the end to end contract lifecycle, providing governance, structure, and consistency across all contracting activities. The team acts as a trusted partner to Procurement category and sourcing teams, delivering contracting expertise, standards, and support to enable effective sourcing and supplier management.
The team oversees the contracting process from drafting through execution, coordinating timely approvals through close collaboration with Legal, Finance, and business stakeholders, and ensuring effective contract signature and continuity. It manages and enables contract technology solutions, and maintains oversight of contract renewals, expiries, and terminations to mitigate risk and support uninterrupted business operations.

The Contract Management team also leads the management of contract related pricing updates and amendments, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with approved commercial strategies and business requirements. In addition, it supports the effective operationalization of contracts, ensuring agreements are implemented in line with business objectives, risk frameworks, and delivery timelines.
Through this Centre of Excellence model, the team drives contracting best practices, process efficiency, and insight generation, allowing Procurement category teams to focus on value creation while ensuring contractual discipline and compliance across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the End to End contract process for Indirect categories in collaboration of the different set of stakeholders
• Own contract creation and administration, including the setup and maintenance of contract workspaces, completion of questionnaires, management of documentation uploads, and follow up on approval workflows.
• Manage contract related pricing updates and amendments, ensuring changes are accurately reflected in contractual documents and systems, and aligned with approved governance processes.
• Coordinate contract extensions and renewals, including the review and identification of leverage opportunities during renewal cycles, working with Procurement, Legal, and business stakeholders to support informed negotiation strategies.
• Monitor contract milestones and timelines, including tracking and issuing contract expiry notifications to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Support and process contract terminations, ensuring adherence to contractual terms, internal controls, and documentation requirements.
• Contribute to the enhancement and evolution of contract technology solutions, including identifying opportunities to leverage AI enabled capabilities for contract review, data extraction, risk identification, and workflow optimization, in order to improve efficiency, insight, and decision making across the contract lifecycle.
• Contribute to the effective operationalization of contracts, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and system readiness post signature

Skills required

• Solid knowledge of contracting principles, legal terminology, and the business implications of contractual terms, supported by a background in Procurement, Sales, or Legal.
• Strong systems proficiency, with the ability to leverage contract lifecycle management tools and emerging AI enabled technologies to enhance contract quality, efficiency, and insight.
• Ability to influence and challenge internal and external stakeholders constructively, facilitating alignment and effective negotiation on contractual matters (excluding commercial negotiations).
• High level of attention to detail, combined with structured process and workflow management to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timeliness across contract lifecycle activities.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Law, or related field.
• 1-3 years’ experience working in roles such as procurement operations, contract administration of legal support roles
• Fluent in English

Preferred:

• Proficiency in SAP Ariba Contracts Workspace, e-signature tools
• Proficiency in additional languages such as French, Spanish, or German is required.