Category Specialist - Agile (Marketing Procurement)

Diageo; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Diageo is seeking a dynamic individual to join its Marketing Procurement Team in London. As part of this agile role, you'll be managing significant A&P Development spend, collaborating closely with various stakeholders to ensure optimal procurement strategies that drive sustainable value and growth. If you are passionate about procurement excellence and have a strong commercial edge in negotiations, an exciting opportunity awaits.

Benefits

Contemporary work life balance policies

Contributory pension scheme

Comprehensive health insurance

Annual bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in Procurement or FMCG roles.
• Strong track record in negotiations and sourcing.
• Ability to build impactful partnerships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive optimised A&P spend for growth and performance.
• Lead sourcing and agency selection for marketing categories.
• Collaborate with markets to implement global strategies.

Skills

Negotiation

Relationship Management

Commercial Acumen

Analytical Skills

Education

Degree in Business or relevant field

Job description

Join our Marketing Procurement Team

As the custodians of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year, across 180 markets globally. The commercial challenges here are large, diverse and endlessly fascinating. Never more so than in Procurement.

As an organisation, we spend over $10 billion per year. And as the driving force in this expenditure, our Procurement teams make a far-reaching contribution to our business, productivity and growth goals - right across the globe. Premium quality and end-to-end, sustainable value are how we measure our success - across services, partnerships and products. We always want to be the best and, along with engaging the best talent to work with the best products, this is how we attempt to do it. Ultimately, this is about people as much as numbers. We build great relationships internally and externally - so we understand our needs and how to meet them. Every time.

Join us in Procurement and, if you're driven, resilient and share our pioneering spirit, there's a world of opportunity here for you.

Are you passionate about driving the future of our global marketing procurement categories? Do you have an interest in bringing new ideas and innovative solutions across marketing categories?

We are looking for an individual with a drive to be the best, a hard-working influencer, a negotiator with strong commercial edge and team player. An individual who can deliver exceptional, comprehensive and sustainable procurement strategies. It's an exciting time in this space with lots of opportunity to shape the future.

About the Function

Global Procurement is accountable for the Procurement of Supply, Marketing and Indirect categories with an annual spend of circa $12bn. Procurement's vision is to "Unlock the Power of our Ecosystems to win Sustainable Value", with a broad set of value delivery across Cost, Cash, Carbon (ESG) and Consumer Impact.

Global Marketing Procurement delivers significant contribution towards Diageo business, productivity and growth goals. The function is structured to take advantage of our global scale through a model based on Globally led Category Procurement and Market led Procurement teams, where we operate a strong collaboration model and work together as One Procurement Community. This team plays a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base.

The Role

In this agile role, you will be part of the category team that manages our A&P Development spend, covering Content, Creative Production, Research, Data & Insights and Agency Excellence. This role also provides the opportunity to get involved across various projects and programmes across the wider Marketing Procurement team.

You will drive outstanding end to end value across key marketing categories, through strong commercial leadership, effective business partnering and collaboration across Procurement CoEs. This role requires close collaboration with key partners across the business, to drive best practice, processes and ways of working as well as ensuring optimisation of A&P investment. You will support and collaborate on specific category enhancements projects and programmes that continue to drive our future success.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Working on key programmes across the marketing categories you will help drive an optimised shape of Diageo's Development A&P to maximise growth and performance by reducing areas of inefficient and ineffective spend, leveraging category investment insights, data and strategy. You will be collaborating with markets and global functions, applying strategic procurement excellence, through a category management approach, built on Diageo's best practice, standards and tools, to deliver excellence value and benefits to the business.
• Review and evolve our marketing agency landscape (ecosystem) to ensure it's fit for purpose and meets ongoing business requirements. Leading or supporting sourcing, negotiations and agency selection activities for specific categories of spend.
• Develop subject-matter expertise for Agency Excellence and drive initiatives across the Global Marketing Procurement community, including rolling out best practice across roster management, agency relationship evaluations and joint business partnering.
• Drive Diageo's Relationship Collaboration Programme across relevant categories and feed into Partner performance plans and reviews.
• Support and collaborate with Markets to deliver the implementation of the global strategy / strategies.
• Drive category excellence through execution of improve projects in line with the category's strategic objectives, including leading key negotiations with partners.
• Adhere to and always promote the highest standards of compliance. This includes risk management processes, contract management and cost modelling / benchmarking.
• Generate insights and have good commercial foresight to objectively challenge established practice to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making through industry and external benchmarks
• Collaborate and support in the delivery of Diageo's Society 2030 ambition
• Work dynamically across categories, where required, to collaborate on wider procurement programmes / projects.

Experience / Skills required

A dynamic individual with the ability to thrive in an agile and fast paced environment, able to prioritise according to business need. Who can build long lasting relationships that drive value and create high impact over the short, mid and long term.

• Experience in Procurement, Finance, FMCG Commercial or other relevant roles, with successful experience in negotiations, sourcing, relationship management and business partnering
• Skilled at building partnerships, both externally with our agencies and suppliers, and internally with our business partners / marketing team members.
• Possess strong commercial edge, to lead negotiations and understand the value drivers that can deliver strong outcomes.
• Independent thinker with strong leadership & communication skills, able to inspire internal marketing team members and external agency partners
• Proven performance in projects and driving strategic change. Applying industry knowledge and research to drive improvements and success in inspiring change initiatives to further business performance.
• Strong analytical and financial awareness including an understanding of financial goals and value drivers relevant to the business ambition.
• A clear strategic thinker, who can connect strategy to world class execution
• Proven track record of consistent performance and delivery
• Commercial competence, and strong knowledge of Best in Class Procurement practices and ways of working is also desirable for this role.

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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.

We believe the most diverse and inclusive culture makes for a better business and a better world.We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Contributory pension scheme
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Annual bonus

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.