What will your role be?

Diageo's ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer Products Company in the world. The Diageo Performance Ambition clearly outlines the business strategy with focus in Australia on growing our core, Ready to Drink business (RTD), exploding reserve, increasing third party co-packaging and brilliantly executing innovation.

Diageo Australia is an integrated Supply (Distilling, Technical, Bottling, Supply Chain, Warehousing) & Demand (Commercial, Marketing, Finance, HR, CR/ Legal) business with local manufacturing in Queensland and NSW and field sales teams in each state.

In Supply our intent to be Australia's number one drinks supply chain delivering the best value, service & innovation to win with our customers. We do this through supporting our in market local and regional strategic activities, and leveraging supply chain efficiencies by creating a lean supply chain to deliver the highest customer service at optimal cost.

Australia market continues to grow and diversify. Movement towards a more centralised and integrated value chain.

As a key member of Diageo Australia Supply Leadership Team the Head of Planning role provides leadership across both Supply and Demand in all areas through the sales and operations planning processes.

What does this role look like for you?

• Lead the S&OP / IBP process for Diageo, co-coordinating all functions to deliver a best practice process that is owned and valued.
• Custodian of quality of each of the processes in S&OP / IBP, clearly setting formats, goals, and expected outcomes. Bring trust & transparency to the demand planning process and numbers.
• Drive Continuous improvement to achieve improved forecast accuracy; better service; optimized inventory and reduced waste by analyzing trends and developing insights, both with internal customers and through collaborative forecasting with customers.
• Outcome: Engage, lead and develop the planning team, developing talent and strong succession plan to retain knowledge within the team.
• Build and maintain exceptional relationships with internal and external customers to support our national sales strategy.
• Lead and promote efficient and effective collaboration network across E2E Supply Leadership Team, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, among others relevant people and processes, fostering an ambitious and encouraging attitude for breaking barriers with a breakthrough mindset to achieve excellence at all challenges.

What will you bring to the table?

• Business Degree in a Discipline related
• Strong understanding of supply / demand planning processes, inventory management, forecasting
• Proven experience in process definition and implementation, as well as in change management
• Experience in leading and developing teams
• Proven high standard of presentation, negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, as well as strong skills as a negotiator to reach consensus, buy-in and commitment
• Able to deliver results through others and on own, unlock barriers to success and create the right environment for sustainable performance.
• Working with SAP & APO an advantage

What are the benefits?

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.

You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.

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.