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From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of daring possibilities. From our iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Don Julio, to our local homegrown heroes Bundaberg Rum, UDL and Mr Black, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of ambitious, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating.
About The Role
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Due to a recent internal move, we are looking to find a category leader to build the future of category transformation at Diageo. the Category Transformation Manager is responsible for delivering best in class category leadership collaboration with customers, focused on building category strategy that delivers growth for the category and supports Diageo's market share, and turning them into actionable plans that are implemented with their customer to deliver the triple win. This role reports into the Head of Commercial Excellence - Premix and works within our dedicated Premix Transformation team, working alongside insights, innovation and shopper teams focused on delivering groundbreaking growth for this critical category in Australia.
Where Will You Grow In This Role?
- Develop the Premix Category Growth strategy for the XXX category, leading strategy across both on and off premise channels to drive overall category growth and business performance;
- Lead a cross functional and cross discipline team through the annual category development process, including continuous refinement of the strategy to deliver the joint category vision and strategic initiatives with key strategic customer groups;
- Lead as the key business partner internally with customer teams and externally with customers on range reviews and leading category-based initiatives to drive delivery and leading strategic retail transformation;and
- Be a part of an integral team to drive business transformation working alongside premix specialists to develop strong pipeline of category changing innovation and ensure new launches are supported end to end (product, category, retail solutions).
What You Will Bring To The Table?
- Well established experience within category and proven track record of driving performance and results to achieve category growth.
- Prior experience working in a sales/retail or marketing role would be an added advantage.
- Prior knowledge and expertise with working tools such as Scan/Panel Data and space planning tools and high proficiency in Microsoft office
- Strong analytical skillsets and proficient with numbers to leverage and utilize insights to drive category growth.
- Prior experience working in a heavily matrix organization with strong stakeholder management skills across all levels and functions.
Our Commitment To Inclusion And Diversity
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.
At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture. In order to ensure we're supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 18th Oct 2024