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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 role:

Through effective business partnering and collaboration with R&D, operations, finance and global procurement team own the implementation and definition of the packaging strategies:

Applying strategic procurement perfection, by leading execution of and defining Market-specific category strategies built on Diageo’s best methods, standards and tools to deliver procurement value for Diageo. 

Coordinating end-to-end execution of category strategies ensuring that Market are aligned and working in line with strategy do deliver producitivy an value expected  

Serving as Market subject-matter guide for specific spend categories, ensuring collection and leverage of supply market expertise and close engagement with spartnersfor value-adding procurement 

Role Responsibilities:

End to end category excellence:   Take Market-wide ownership for maximising procurement value for Diageo from paper categories, including application of best in class market knowledge, customer engagement, global community support in Market, tools & techniques. Provide clear to global category leads markets needs  

Parrneship with  Global Category leadswith market sourcing activities through provision of standard methodologies, Market data and information, feedback from execution and lessons learned. Aligned with strategic objectives.  

Strategy execution:   Take accountability for end to end execution of all paper categories strategies, track and monitor progress and keep aligned with global strategy making the right adjustmenst that can comes from the implemente process, that will improve the results in alignment with business leads.   Ensure close collaboration of teams aligned behind strategies and resolve Market-wide customer concerns.   

Business partnering.  Develop and grow relationships with customers, partners and suppliers for deeper insights into needs and capabilities; establish a position to advise on how to gain greater value from close engagement with Procurement.  Bring global capability to the Market.  

Enhanced Market Performance:Achieve measurable improvements in service levels, cost efficiencies, and market growth through effective procurement strategies executions. 

Contract management.  Ensure Market-specific requirements are incorporated into all contracts global and market-specific.  Review and co-develop contracts with Global Category ManagersGCMs as required for CM4 and CM3 and lead completion of all contracts for CM2 and CM1 spend categories, partnering with the tactical team as appropriate for all spot-buying. 

Mitigate strategic risks.  As part of category strategy development and execution, identify and design mitigations for potential risks, in line with Diageo risk and governance standards. 

Mitigate sourcing risks.  Identify corporate, supply, supplier and other risks associated with sourcing activities and put mitigations in place, engaging all relevant customers, partners and suppliers to ensure the mitigations are successful. 

Supplier relationship.  Establish standards, ways of working and trust relatioships with suppliers in relevant categories across Markets; ensure Diageo standard processes are applied and that there is a good foundation for strong performance, risk mitigation and rapid resolution of issues. 

Supplier performance.  In collaboration with GCMs and contract leads, set important metrics, driving consistency across suppliers and markets, improving the value of data generated and applied and resolving chronic supplier performance issues.  Direct which supplier issues should be addressed by the Procurement team and which by other parts of Diageo, for best results. 

Supplier development.  In line with Procurement strategic supplier strategies, collaborate with suppliers to unlock breakthrough opportunities for the business; stimulate supplier capabilities to generate ideas for the future. 

Experience / skills required: 

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Business Administration, industrial engineering or related field;

Minimum 5 years’ experience in Procurement Packaging, FMCG/Spirits, with subject-matter expertise in supply markets and spend categories relevant to the role 

Demonstrated performance in leading projects and teams, handling and negotiating with suppliers and experience developing and implementing category and procurement strategies 

Strong analytical and financial awareness including a comprehensive understanding of AOP requirements and financial goals & value drivers relevant to the categories in scope 

Senior or middle manager or senior specialist role experience with track record influencing and leading senior scustomersand budget holders and driving cross-border teams 

Exceptional communication skills:  verbal, written and presentation; strong social skills 

Skills & Competencies 

Not afraid to challenge the status quo, challenge complacency, develop daring plans and bring clarity to others. Drives collaboration in reaching a common understanding of the future. A natural business partner, enrolling customers in your vision. 

Critical Thinking: Ability to develop long-term strategies that align with organizational goals. Restless in creatively thinking outside of the box and taking thoughtful risks, always working to bring others with you. Amplifies Diageo’s purpose. 

Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis tools, financials analysis, E2E (End-to-End) supply chain management analytics and optimizing inventory levels. 

Negotiation Skills: Strong negotiation skills for securing favorable terms with suppliers. 

Exceptional communication skills:  verbal, written and presentation; strong social skills 

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to own your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We accept diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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