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, Procurement:
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We're dedicated to maximising the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we're shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs!
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Our team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we're driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we'll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.
About the Role:
North America Marketing Procurement delivers significant contribution towards Diageo North America business, productivity and growth goals. The Customer Marketing VAP, Coupons & Graphic Services categories is seeking an individual who will deliver significant value for our business and ensure that Diageo's Marketing investment is applied to fuel brand growth.
These categories are important to the overall delivery of our AOP & 2030 goals. The prime accountability for the role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in this category are executed brilliantly with our vendors. This role will lead sourcing decisions with key partners and will support the delivery of value driving initiatives. They will also be managing supplier relationships, compliance & risk, financial & critical metric reporting.
This role will bring procurement and marketing experience to the team, enhancing our understanding of the supplier landscape, innovations, technologies and processes, that deliver value and reduce risks. The role will provide input into key areas such as Coupon value chain enhancements, VAP design & sustainability, planning and execution, supplier capabilities, value chain efficiencies, effective and efficient programming. We are seeking a candidate that can contribute to determining how value is captured and how we measure the value.
Role Responsibilities:
- A solid understanding of the industry landscape, business trends and how to navigate is important.
- Strong commercial competence and judgement; bringing value.
- Experience of establishing agency partnerships and the how to structure deals in this area.
- Strong project, operational and organizational change capabilities.
- Confirmed ability to develop team profile as an authentic business partner in a global business.
- Building and sustaining trust and credibility with partners and the team, quickly.
- Development & execution of VAP / Coupon / Graphic Services category strategies.
- Demonstration of personal accountability for great performance and brilliant execution.
- Collaborates and develops strong relationships with Marketing, Customer Marketing, Legal & Finance in Diageo North America and NA / Global Procurement colleagues to drive the continuous improvement agenda.
- Develop and execute yearly annual operating plan that meets / exceeds value delivery targets.
- Jointly set objectives with partners, undertake agency business reviews to reflect achievements against established critical metrics, analyze performance and skill gaps and actively manage continuous performance. Collaboratively identify development needs and action plans.
- Deliver the category program(s) through great execution under their area of responsibility.
- Deliver excellence benefits through sourcing, demand management, supplier relationship management, contract management, and supplier development and supplier innovation.
- Collaborate with partners ensuring full engagement to maximize commercial advantage, minimize risk and assuring quality of delivery and performance.
- Promote the highest standards of ethics and compliance consistently.
Complexity of the Role:
- Working across a range of complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Management and collaboration across multiple departments
- Fast paced delivery
- Requires financial knowledge to understand budgets and savings recognition.
- Influencing and communication skills needed to bring collaborators & suppliers on the journey to successful implementation of projects.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelors' Degree.
- 3 years+ procurement experience in an FMCG or agency environment.
- Experience in key procurement skills including strategy development, negotiations, forecasting and benchmarking.
- Strong analytical skills, including forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value.
- Ability to work in an agile environment and ability to keep up with pace of change and prioritize according to business needs.
- Strong communication and influencing skills with both internal and external partners.
Top leadership capabilities for this role:
- Authenticity, create possibilities, consistently deliver great performance and connect to Diageo Purpose.
- Displays high levels of energy and commitment.
- Strong communication skills with commercial awareness
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.
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 embrace 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, mindsets, 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 the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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