Nicolas Dieu

Senior Director, ARTD, Global Development & Innovation at The Coca-Cola Company

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Future thinker and business oriented professionnel with strong experience in formulation and food processes (dairy, cereals). Strong skills in: - project and portfolio management - cross functional leadership - team management in multicultural context (with working experiences in a Europe , Asia and Africa) - conducting operation project (factory start up, optimisation)

Experience

  • The Coca-Cola Company (7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Director, ARTD, Global Development & Innovation
      Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    • R&D EMEA Senior director product development: emerging brands, adult occasion drinks
      Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

      Future thinker leading R&D platform for EMEA region, leading and developing talents, connecting inside and outside the company : - Emerging brands (FAB): introduction and development alcoholic ready to drink beverages through collaboration, leveraging current brand or creating new brands - Adult occasion: develop existing portfolio (Schweppes , Royal Bliss , etc... ), and drive innovation to address socializing need state - Nutrition : support the organization and develop guidelines to support vision of beverage for life across beverage categories - Experimentation: explore new ingredients , functional products , technologies to enable breakthrough innovation addressing future consumer needs

    • R&D EMEA - innovation project manager ,
      Aug 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Curious , and passionate about innovation Future back focus Lead RnD strategic projects to develop new categories across Europe , Middle East and Africa. Part of exciting transformation journey to embrace ' Beverage for life' vision. Subject Matter Expert Dairy for EMEA region - technical lead to start up of new dairy factory in Ghana

  • Danone (16 yrs 7 mos)
    • Research and Innovation Manager Fan Milk West Africa
      Sep 2016 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

      HEAD of R&I for Fanmilk west africa. JV between Danone and Abraaj. Leading strategic projects across the region, developping R&D capabilities.

    • Senior RnD mgr Danone Southern Africa
      Jan 2012 - Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      manage long life products portfolio launch innos, reno, productivity initiatives manage pilot plant

    • RnD Project Manager
      Jul 2009 - Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Formulation and process design of dairy products Project management (reno, inno, productivity) Pilot management