Supply Finance Manager - Marketing Procurement

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

Job summary

A leading global drinks company is seeking a Marketing Procurement Finance Manager to provide valuable financial insights for procurement teams. This role involves collaborating with procurement heads to enhance performance while managing risks and developing sustainability strategies. Candidates should possess strong financial skills, a degree, and substantial experience in related finance roles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant finance experience required, particularly in procurement or supply finance.
• Ability to distil complex information and communicate effectively.
• Strong analytical skills for financial planning and modelling.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial insights to support procurement target delivery.
• Review and negotiate supplier contracts.
• Analyse procurement performance related to cost and sustainability.

Skills

Commercial competence

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Project management

Education

Graduate or equivalent qualification

Accounting or finance qualification (ACA/ICAS/CIMA/MBA)

Tools

Excel

SAP

Salesforce

Qlik

BFC

Job description

ABOUT DIAGEO:

• Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, Tequila Don Julio and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.
• Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world's very best people.

About the Function-
Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.
Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

ABOUT GLOBAL PROCUREMENT & SUSTAINABILITY FINANCE:

Global Procurement & Sustainability activities are critical to the delivery of Diageo's strategic ambitions for long-term, demonstrated growth and its Spirit of Progress: Society 2030 ambition.

• The Global Procurement & Sustainability finance function reports into the President, Global Supply Chain & Procurement & Chief Sustainability Officer through the Global Supply Chain & Procurement Finance Director.
• The function is responsible for providing financial leadership and business partnering in respect of the Group's ~£5bn COGS and ~3bn A&P and OH spend pools as well as the company's strategic sustainability goals, with a focus on Carbon and Water.
• The function directly supports the Global Procurement function, led by Diageo's Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), and the Group's Sustainability function, led by the Supply Sustainability Director. However, it often partners with other key functions and Regions across Diageo including, but not limited to, Group Strategic Finance & Performance Function, Group Investor Relations, Group Corporate Relations and Global marketing.
• The function is, therefore, at the forefront of empowering leaders with information, advice and support to facilitate effective decision-making across our Supply Chain.

ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Marketing Procurement Finance Manager will provide financial insights and analysis to support Procurement target delivery and performance improvement, whilst ensuring risk and volatility is handled and well-understood.
Specifically, the role will provide finance business support to various procurement teams responsible for various marketing spend categories. This will involve supporting various Heads of Procurement and Category Directors across regions. The role will be encouraged to provide thorough financial and strategic support to guide procurement decision-making, and support developing plans to deliver sustainability roadmaps. Key responsibilities, therefore, include partnering to:

• Develop procurement and CRES strategies and related financial plans
• Review and negotiate supplier contracts
• Support efficiency conceptualization and related financial implications
• Deliver broader procurement-led projects or initiatives, and
• Analyse, track and report overall procurement performance - cost, cash and carbon
• Play an integral role in various financial processes including the 3-Year financial planning process, Annual Operating Plans and monthly reporting exercises.
• Work closely with FP&A teams to bring clarity to how Procurement actions affect P&L and Cash delivery

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages:
The role requires the person to be an ambassador for the standardization and simplification, acting at pace to handle a dynamic external and internal environment. Moreover, the role will play a key role in capability development across finance and procurement virtual communities.
Given its responsibilities, the role will engage and operate cross-functionally requiring the role holder to demonstrate leadership, flexibility, and extensive partner management skills under-pinned by:

• Commercial competence and judgment; an understanding of both the business and external environment to draw from, ability to challenge, influence strategies and guide decisions
• Strong communication and influencing skills, verbal and written; able to distil and communicate complex information clearly
• Strong personal impact - build value relationships quickly across all levels within the organisation in a matrix environment, challenging and holding the teams to account, and being credible in front of senior partners and key strategic suppliers.
• The ability to work at pace with ambiguity and change, develop efficient ways of working and be agile in responding to change

• Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body - Accounting or finance qualification desirable (ACA/ICAS/CIMA/MBA)
• Have at least 5+ years of relevant / related finance experience - procurement or supply finance experience desirable (especially from within FMCG).
• Demonstrated performance in problem solving and project management.
• Strong analytical / financial / discernment for business, including an understanding of organisational financial goals and value drivers. Notably, capable of understanding and explaining concepts of volume, inflation, efficiency, and spend.
• High level of experience in data analysis, financial planning, modelling (excel) and reporting i.e. turning complex data into strategic insights. Significant experience with core financial systems (SAP, BFC, Salesforce, Qlik) including their metrics and data structures is desirable.
• Strong communication skills: verbal, written and presentation; strong interpersonal skills.

LEADERSHIP STANDARD

• Win through Execution. Flexible, agile & resilient, adapting plans in the face of change. Track record of execution in a business undergoing transformation. Always scanning opportunities to simplify.
• Inspire through Purpose. Restless in creatively thinking outside of the box and taking thoughtful risks, always working to bring others with you. Amplifies Diageo's purpose.
• Shape the Future. Not afraid to challenge the status quo, challenge complacency, develop ambitious plans and bring clarity to others. Drives collaboration in reaching a common understanding of the future. A natural business partner, enrolling collaborators in your vision.
• Invest in Talent. Eager to stretch yourself and encourage others to do the same. Pro-actively drives diversity at Diageo in all its forms.

FLEX POLICY

• Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location.
• Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

• Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere".
• This purpose is 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.
• Character Is Everything