Sharon Blyfield OBE

Sharon has been in the business for 30 years in a variety of functions and roles. She joined the HR  team 18 years ago, covering all elements of Supply Chain and now heads up the Early Careers agenda for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) in Great Britain. 

Having spent the majority of her career developing young talent at the start of their careers, her  current remit fits perfectly with her passion to create opportunities to support the next generation  of young leaders. As part of her commitment, Sharon strives to work with strategic partners who  challenge organisation’s approach to under representation of young people across all communities  and works to create a level playing field in the recruitment process that might unconsciously  deselect from those groups. 

Sharon’s dedication and commitment to CCEP’s apprenticeship programme has been recognised by  CCEP’s leadership team, as well as her peers and apprentices alike. She has received praise for her  outstanding leadership of the programme, which has continued to grow and expand in line with the  

business’ Early Careers agenda. As well as recognition from the leadership team, 2021 saw Sharon  win the Forward Ladies Corporate Leader and the London Regional National Apprenticeship  Champion awards and recognition in the Queen’s 2022 New Years’ honours list with an OBE for  services to Apprenticeships and Skills. Outside of CCEP she is an active board member for the  Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) and recently become that Vice-Chair of  Youth Employment UK’s board.