Global Joint Ventures Lead - European Spirits

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Job Description :

Job Title

Global Joint Ventures Lead - European Spirits

Permanent

Closing date: 2nd May

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

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role

This role requires an ability to lead and deliver through broad based end-to-end supply chain teams, as well as a significant amount of time operating within the Diageo JV business structure (which is based in Amsterdam) and with our JV business partners of the Nolet family (Schiedam) and Zacapa RCP and ILG (British Virgin Islands and Guatemala).

Ketel One sits in the “super premium+” sector of spirits, with Zacapa operating in the “ultra-premium” sector. Both brands operate within the Luxury Portfolio of Diageo. Each brand has a very unique business design and JV operational structure.

Diageo has a clear ambition and priority to accelerate further growth in the Luxury segment. It is critical that we create and operate a seamless and effective E2E supply chain across both Diageo and our JV partners and operations. This role will ensure best-in-class processes are in place across the supply chain, and further build strong and value-creating relationships across the JV supply chain to drive the future ambitions.

The role will require an entrepreneurial approach to building joint value creation and solutions beyond Diageo’s immediate supply chain. Highly effective influencing skills nested within a diverse stakeholders (both internal and external) are a requirement for successful delivery of this role. The role will also look to ensure learning loops and synergies are built across the JV’s.

The Joint Ventures Lead will be a member of the Ketel One JV Exec, the Zacapa JV Exec and the Diageo Global Category Supply Chain Leadership team for Gin, Rum and Vodka (“European Spirits”).

Key Responsibilities

The activities that the role will undertake include:

• Partnering closely with the commercial organization to shape the future of the JV businesses as a member of the JV’s Exec, whilst delivering the business growth plans and associated innovations.
• Building a clear supply chain strategy for both JV’s, which reflects inputs from each business as well as Diageo SC&P.
• Ensuring safe and effective processes, resiliency and productivity across the E2E supply chain operations.
• Responsibility for delivering Scope 1, Scope 2 and Water goals for the Zacapa sites in Quetzaltenango.
• Partnering closely with the JVs and GBTs to deliver Scope 3 goals on both brands.
• Responsibility for Zacapa operations in Guatemala which include various Supply functions such as Brand Change, Planning, Procurement, Operations, Quality, Compliance.
• Responsibility for team members in BVI, and E2E accountability for the broader SC across both brands.
• Building effective data dashboards across Diageo and JV supply chains to enable internal / external analytical insight driving improvements.
• Ensuring robust and effective IBP processes in place.
• As an active member of the wider European Spirits Category Leadership Team, evolve and execute the category transformation strategy, leading from the front in the everyday.
• This role requires an ability to deliver through both a significant direct team FTE as well as numerous dotted line team members within and beyond Diageo (eg planning, finance, innovation, logistics). It is an exciting unique role for a strong leader to shine and springboard their leadership capabilities in a highly visible role.

Experience, capabilities & skills required

With the exciting growth ambitions of our Joint Ventures (JV) portfolio, this role is accountable for the leadership, design and delivery of all aspects of our global JV supply chains. This role will enable the delivery of Ketel One and Zacapa Rum business development with potential for further breadth of brand scope into the future.

We are looking for a Global JV Lead who has a broad base of experience across the supply chain and is at ease working effectively with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders, and with a diverse geography of stakeholders and business cultures. This is an exciting leadership role which is anticipated to bring significant value to these fast paced, growth brands. The Global JV Lead will operate confidently and autonomously using their experience and entrepreneurial spirit to ensure strong, efficient and safe operational delivery, as well as demonstrate thought leadership to shape the future, deliver innovation and evolve the supply chain as the brands further expand scope and scale.

• A strong understanding of the commercial organization, with a hunger for understanding and meeting customer needs.
• A curiosity and entrepreneurial approach to learning and leadership.
• Experience leveraging data and analytical insight to create mid to long term strategic plan for a function/business.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and energise direct team and wider business partners/stakeholders across a broad geography and diverse business landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across numerous Supply Chain disciplines either within a functional or market role.
• Evidence of creating simplicity and structure within a complex environment.
• Demonstrated ability driving continuous / transformative improvement within a business unit or market.
• Experience of establishing / managing performance routines for a market or function.
• Ability to understand, lead and communicate on supply chain and business finance is key due to the joint venture nature of this business.
• Competence with Spanish language is not essential but would be helpful.

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 offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• 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 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.

Around the world we have a number of inclusive Business and Employee Resource Groups known as BRGs and ERGs. These influential groups, made up of our people, represent various viewpoints, experiences and communities who generate thought-provoking work to enhance our business and workplace, creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for all.

Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

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

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Edinburgh Park

Additional Locations :

1HQ, Amsterdam

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-04-17