While the name Diageo may be unfamiliar to you, our brands have most likely been with you while you create unforgettable moments of connection and celebration. Imagine crafting the future some of the most well-loved spirits brands across the world, including Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Bundaberg Rum and building possibilities within growing brands such as Don Julio, Ciroc, Reeftip and Aviation Gin. By joining Diageo Australia, you will inspire an exceptional team around you, with offices and teams working from 8 locations across Australia, to build incredible performance and unleash your own potential.
What will your role be?
Global Procurement is a dynamic function within Supply Chain, managing > £4 billion of spend annually (across Supply, Demand and Indirect categories globally), fuelling growth and end to end value to the business in support of Diageo's ambition to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.
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APAC Procurement drive the transformation and deliverables of the Supply categories in APAC - a critical enabler to fuel commercial growth and sustainability commitment in the region and beyond.
Currently, there is an exciting opportunity to join the APAC Procurement Centre of Excellence (COE) team within Global Procurement. You will be part of the Global Procurement family of 450 Procurement professionals across the globe.
As the APAC Category Manager, you will be part of the team of 27 Procurement professionals and will support the APAC business with a broad in remit looking after our primary packaging category across Australia, Indonesia, China etc. as well as our third-party operators based in Japan and Thailand etc.
What does this role look like for you?
- Develop and implement procurement strategies for primary packaging category.
- Lead end to end strategic sourcing activities, including source planning, tender evaluations, contract negotiation and contract handovers.
- Build strong business partnering with business stakeholders and suppliers to achieve targeted outcome.
- Identify commercial opportunities and efficiencies within the category to deliver the cost and cash target.
- Drive progress toward Diageo's ambition Society 2030, which includes Promote positive drinking; Champion inclusion and diversity; Pioneer grain-to-glass sustainability; Doing business the right way.
What will you bring to the table?
- Demonstrable experience of successfully delivering game-changing interventions and category management within Procurement with best-in-class procurement technical knowledge
- Solid exposure to Supply and external manufacturing categories. A broader cross functional procurement experience would be an advantage.
- Demonstrable experience in business partnering a senior and complex stakeholder group. With broad business acumen and able to communicate in commercial business language with credibility and demonstrating high levels of EQ
- Experience in operating in matrixed environment is highly desirable
- Ability to clearly communicate and articulate complex situations in simple terms to enable stakeholder engagement and buy-in
- Demonstrable experience working at a regional level and understanding of cultural sensitivities across APAC region.
- Thrives in ambiguous environment and is energised by creating and developing strategic solutions.
- Demonstrable ability for multi-tasking and prioritising effectively whilst managing a high workload
- Experience operating successfully with virtual and remote teams across all levels of seniority
- Demonstrable capability to think at strategic level with a hands-on approach for strategy execution
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. In order to ensure we're supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 18th October 2024.