Procurement Business Partner, European Spirits

Job Description :

Procurement Business Partner, European Spirits

Closing date: 11th May

About the team

As part of our Supply Categories Procurement team, you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.

There’s a rich variety of commercial challenges for you to immerse yourself in as part of the procurement team. We want services, partnerships, and products that meet our needs today and tomorrow. We have high benchmarks for sustainability, and we want to be the best in terms of the partnerships we foster and the results we deliver.

So this is about people as much as numbers. Building relationships internally, so you know what we need; and externally, so you know what can be achieved. Then, you’ll find the right matches for our requirements – and see those deals through.

About this role

This role is part of the Supply Categories Procurement team. You will be responsible for the delivery of both the Europe Spirits Category AOP and the Supply Categories Procurement AOP.

You will be a member of the Supply Category Procurement LT and the Europe Spirits Category LT and will leverage these relationships to create the conditions for great integration of our suppliers and partners into the wider Europe Spirits end-to-end Supply chain.

You will be responsible for partnering with a diverse set of key stakeholder relationships across Europe Spirits and Procurement. In Europe Spirits, you will develop great relationships with Planning, Innovation & Brand Change, Finance, and the Manufacturing teams. In Procurement, the Market Category Managers, the Global Procurement, and CPRM teams.

You will be the key engagement point for the Europe Spirits Category into Procurement and will oversee the brilliant execution of the Procurement delivery within the Europe Spirits AOP. You will leverage your Europe Spirits category relationships to create the conditions for success and resource prioritization to enable the maximum possible Procurement impact.

Your leadership on the above will deliver:

This role is pivotal in leading the development of the Europe Spirits Category AOP and ensuring that Procurement and Europe Spirits collaborate efficiently to maximize the delivery of productivity. Our aspiration is to transform from 3% delivery per annum to 5%.

You will collaborate with Procurement Sustainability teams and the Europe Spirits Category to deliver a 15% Scope 3 carbon reduction by 2026 ensuring end-to-end alignment of our Scope 1, 2, and 3 plans.

You will leverage Europe Spirits category insights and the expertise of the Procurement community to implement innovative & transformational supply solutions across the end-to-end supply chain of Europe Spirits that are not currently in our outlook.

About you

• You'll have an excellent understanding of the Procurement Category Management process including Category Strategy Development and Supplier Performance Management.

• The ability to build and sustain great relationships with multiple stakeholders and to collaborate efficiently.

• Strong analytical and financial awareness including an understanding of Total Cost of Ownership and end-to-end value delivery. Use of advanced data and analytics (cost modeling & projection) to drive best-in-class strategies and negotiation plans is beneficial.

• Experience of supply chain management in different business functions.

• Demonstrated performance when both leading and working on projects with cross-functional teams, experience in executing projects aligned to category and Procurement strategies.

• Track record of generating insights to influence decision-making and inform transformational opportunities.

• Ability and credibility to build a business case and influence stakeholders.

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, and flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

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

• Competitive base salary and bonus scheme.

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.

• Contributory pension scheme.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.

• Share options.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality, or ethnicity.

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.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people.

We're looking for people with creativity, boldness, and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

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

Worker Type : Regular

Primary Location: Edinburgh Park

Additional Locations : 1HQ, Onyx, Glasgow, St James Gate

Job Posting Start Date : 2025-04-15