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Job Title : IBP Lead - Central Europe

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

Key Accountabilities

Diageo's performance ambition is to become the most trusted and respected CPG ranked #1 in Service. Within Supply Chain, this translates into goals that aim to deliver world class service at best cost and cash, driving value to enable new growth opportunities. 

Central Europe IBP and Demand Planning Leader role is a leadership position accountable for Europe IBP, S&OE, and Demand Planning. This person leads and enables IBPs and Demand Planning Teams, accelerating maturity in Europe IBP program, maintain strong integrated business planning process with Central Europe Execs and multi-function team through strong collaboration and robust S&OP/S&OE. This role will also lead and coach Demand Planners towards a highly accurate demand forecasting, focusing on both reliable statistical forecast and building block quality through APO/OMP. We expect this person has strong interest in understanding the business and end-to-end operational and financial implications of demand plans.

Demand Forecasting Excellence: Implement and sustain Diageo's global demand management agenda, with a strong understanding of demand forecasting operational processes. This includes statistical forecasting, incremental volumes building blocks analysis and calculations, consumption analysis, price elasticity analysis, share trend analysis, in-store activity / promotions volume calculations, active coverage analysis, innovation pipeline volume calculations, deviation analysis, PDCA on Forecast Accuracy KPIs and demand forecasting segmentation management. Head the Demand Forecasting team that oversee both short-term and long-term market demand forecasting processes. Focus on achieving both “Statistical Forecast Accuracy” and “Forecast Value-Add (Building Blocks Quality)” to achieve best in class Forecast Accuracy.Work collaboratively with the Market organizations and ensure forecast accuracy and bias aligns with set targets.

Business Planning Integration: Embed the cross-functional business planning process end-to-end, ensuring that Diageo’s commercial and operational strategies are seamlessly integrated. This includes leading the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) processes across all markets in scope.

Governance & Standards: Oversee the monthly governance process to monitor progress and take corrective actions when required. Ensure that systems and processes are in line with global demand planning standards.

Team Leadership and Development: Lead and coach team of Demand Planners. Leadership responsibilities include seamless collaboration with Joint Venture teams. Spearhead a high-performance Demand Planning team, focusing on capability building and continuous development. This involves managing the roadmap to achieve maturity objectives and leading improvement initiatives. Inspire a step change in team’s digital skills.

Senior Stakeholder Collaboration: Build and nurture senior leader relationships across the Supply Chain, finance, and commercial sectors. Partner with Europe Finance to extract valuable insights and work closely with global teams to implement codified building blocks.

Inclusive Culture: Embrace and champion Diageo's inclusive and diverse culture. We believe in valuing every individual regardless of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality, or ethnicity. You'll play a key role in fostering an inclusive environment.

Systems Proficiency: Utilize experience with demand forecasting platforms, including APO and other planning systems, to drive efficiency and accuracy in our planning processes. Develop new innovative forecasting and data processing technologies. Ensure smooth transition advanced planning platforms like OMP and SAP Hana.

Ideal experience, skills & capabilities

Broad and deep supply chain planning, demand forecasting and S&OP/IBP experience in a CPG company

Proven experience in designing, implementing, and executing Demand Planning and Integrated Business Planning processes

Ability to foster effective relationships, especially with senior stakeholders and demonstrate strong leadership and influencing skills

Strong analytical mindset and data analytics skills

Familiarity with supply network data platforms, ERP, and master data systems

Strong understanding of supply chain and demand forecasting/IBP operational processes

Leadership, influencing, and partner engagement skills

Proven team management experience

Working with us

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

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