Scotch Planning Improvement Lead

Diageo; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Diageo is seeking a Scotch Planning Improvement Lead to drive digital adoption and enhance supply chain excellence. This mid-senior level role involves leading process improvements, ensuring data governance, and collaborating with stakeholders to optimize planning strategies. Ideal candidates will possess expertise in supply chain planning systems and strong communication skills.

Benefits

Contemporary work life balance policies

Comprehensive health insurance

Annual bonus

Qualifications

• Expertise in supply chain planning (preferably within DRP/MRP/MPS).
• Strong written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to drive change and build capability within teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive digital adoption and process improvement.
• Ensure compliance with global data governance standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance planning effectiveness.

Skills

Digital technologies

Supply chain planning

Communication

Change management

Relationship-building

Problem-solving

Tools

OMP

SAP

Job description

Diageo Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Job Description

Role Profile: Scotch Planning Improvement Lead

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and 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.

About The Role

The Scotch Planning Improvement Lead (DRP/MPS/MRP) plays a critical role in advancing Diageo’s digital and supply chain excellence journey. This role is responsible for driving digital adoption, change management, process improvement, data governance and quality, as well as leadership and stakeholder collaboration within the Scotch category supply planning function.

Act as the category expert for advanced supply planning, ensuring system functionalities align with business needs through training, troubleshooting, and adoption support. Additionally, the Scotch Planning Improvement Lead is responsible for executing global master data standards and governance frameworks within the function. You ensure that master data is maintained accurately and in compliance with global standards.

Collaboration is key in this role to drive effective change management; therefore, the Scotch Planning Improvement Lead works closely with various stakeholders across planning teams, global process owners, project teams, and planning & logistics teams to uphold data integrity and drive continuous improvement.

Role Responsibilities

Systems & Digital Adoption

• Be the Key User for Digital Tools: Ensure seamless functionality and serve as the primary liaison between planning function users and global teams. Address technical and process-related issues, lead troubleshooting activities, and actively participate in the Global and Local Key User Networks.
• Drive Adoption and Effectiveness: Promote best practices to enhance planning effectiveness and adoption of our tools. Ensure that all end-users follow set governance standards to ensure process and digital compliance. Monitor compliance with key procedures and parameters, proactively addressing any deviations to maintain operational efficiency and system accuracy.
• Train and Support Users: Enable teams to adopt new tools through training and guidance and provide ongoing system support for both new and existing users. Guide and support stakeholders on system best practices to improve capabilities and adoption.
• System improvements: Drive system enhancements by defining priorities, engaging stakeholders, and overseeing successful adoption.

Change Management & Process Improvement

• Drive Continuous Improvement: Monitor and analyse process performance, identify areas for improvement, lead enhancements, manage waste force programs to prevent recurring issues through proper root cause analysis. Develop & roll out training and documentation for new processes/tools. Collaborate with planning teams to align improvement initiatives with operational needs.
• Lead and roll out Supply Chain Maturity Assessment: Initiate functional improvements and conduct loss analysis to achieve and sustain higher level of maturity and uphold global standards.

Data Governance & Quality

• Establish Data Governance Framework: Establish data governance policies and procedures; ensure compliance and consistency across various planning tools and teams. Ensure parameter settings align with global standards, operating strategies, and SLAs for category and markets.
• Monitor and Improve Data Quality: Define key metrics to assess data quality, implement regular audits, and corrective actions to ensure accuracy and compliance. Translate business requirements into effective planning parameters and processes in Tier processes.

Leadership & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Optimise Planning & Execution: Define planning strategies and align with cross-functional teams to drive execution, coordinate business transformation programs/initiatives, and ensure seamless integration of data and systems across planning teams by delivering through others.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate effectively with teams across various functions. Work closely with planners to assess capabilities, standardize processes, and drive continuous improvement.
• Effective Change management: Define change management strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and tools.

Experience / Skills Required

• Demonstrated passion for digital technologies.
• Expertise in supply chain planning (preferably within DRP/MRP/MPS) with in-depth knowledge of planning systems (OMP and SAP) and processes.
• Strong written/verbal communication skills; with attention-to-detail.
• Ability driving change and building capability within teams. Promotes best practices within their team and with stakeholders.
• Proficiency in relationship-building/teamwork across diverse geographies and cultures.
• Flexible, agile, and resilient, with a proactive approach to completing deliverables.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and problem-solving in unstructured environments.
• Ability to meet deadlines and key project milestones.

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
• 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 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.

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Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location:

Amsterdam

Additional Locations :

Edinburgh Park, Leven Processing, Onyx, Glasgow, Shieldhall

Job Posting Start Date

2025-05-16

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Beverage Manufacturing

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