Job Description :

　　Global Category Specialist, Liquids (Neutral Spirit & Rum)

　　Location: UK preferred

　　Permanent

　　Closing date: January 5, 2024

　　Deliver Procurement outcomes for Diageo within one or more categories of spend, through effective business partnering and collaboration across Procurement CoEs. This includes (but is not limited to):

　　Applying strategic procurement excellence through creation of or support in creation of category strategies built on Diageo’s best methods, standards, and tools to deliver procurement value.Leading or supporting Sourcing activities for specific categories of spend procured Globally.Developing subject-matter expertise for specific spend categories, supporting collection and leverage of supply market expertise and clear direction to Analysts for development and application of supply market data and information to strategy development and sourcing.

　　The Global Category Specialist is accountable for driving and active participation in a global community of procurement professionals in one or more spend categories, including joining regular meetings, driving alignment around strategy, supporting development of own and others’ capabilities & expertise and sharing of best practices.

　　About You

　　This is an exciting opportunity to develop your intrapreneurial potential and proactive leadership style in an exciting space for the business and society moving forward.

　　A systems thinker and strategist, comfortable with creating credible new opportunities from a blank page, you will be a key change agent in translating the unknown into real business practices. As a basis, you will have developed a track record of leading change with Diageo’s global value chain, ideally with an innovation lens.

　　As a leader, you will often be first into the unknown, and your responsibility will be to pull the organisation with you, whilst making a success of others in the business and our value chain.

　　With the broadness of the role, you will be able to demonstrate a leadership approach to global strategy development, sourcing projects and critical major negotiations with clear decision-making proficiency and effective communication behaviours

　　Accountabilities

　　General

　　Applied expertise. Build, manage and grow expertise in one or more spend categories, including understanding of supply markets, suppliers, partners and how to negotiate supply and demand. Become a subject-matter expert and share with others in a global community of category professionals. Apply expertise and standards to identify and win new value for Diageo.Category excellence. Lead development of best-in-class market intelligence and knowledge, category strategies and sourcing events by applying Diageo standards for category excellence. Contribute to improvement of existing and development of new tools & techniques.

　　Category strategy

　　Business partnering. Develop and grow relationships with stakeholders, partners, and suppliers for deeper insights into needs and capabilities; articulate requirements and deliver insights for greater value from partner collaboration.Strategy development. For one or more spend categories, support development and evolution of category strategies by (1) capturing, articulating, and confirming business requirements; (2) researching and analysing market dynamics; and (3) assessing opportunities and proposing solutions.Best in class capabilities. Generate insights and opportunities from internal and external benchmarking, develop cost models to consider scenarios with suppliers and partners and build & evolve analytics capabilities that allow regular review and improvement of strategies.Support to Market CoEs. Support Market CoEs with strategy execution.

　　Sourcing

　　Sourcing. Implement sourcing activities for Global and above-market leverage spend categories. Engage community members as required, apply Diageo Procurement best practice standard.Contracting. For relevant sourcing projects, ensure effective planning, preparation, and application of the Negotiation Toolkit. Negotiate and close contracts. Implement contracts into the system. Manage contracts and contract compliance (Diageo partner compliance and Supplier compliance) through contract lifecycles.

　　Risk management

　　Mitigate strategic risks. As part of category strategy execution, identify, record and follow-up risk mitigations in line with category strategies and best practice.Mitigate sourcing risks. Identify corporate, supply, supplier and other risks associated with sourcing activities, put mitigations in place and implement them, engaging all relevant stakeholders, partners, and suppliers to ensure the mitigations are successful.Apply and improve tools & techniques. Apply Diageo best practice standard, ensuring the most recent and relevant approaches are always applied; use formal governance and peer review to ensure the quality and efficacy of risk management; contribute to development of standards.

　　Supplier relationship management

　　Supplier relationship. Establish standards, ways of working and trust relationships with Global suppliers in relevant categories; ensure Diageo standard processes are applied and that there is a good foundation for strong performance, risk mitigation and rapid resolution of issues.Supplier performance. Support Market COE’s with driving consistency across suppliers and markets, improving the value of data generated.Supplier development. In line with Procurement strategic supplier strategies, collaborate with suppliers to unlock breakthrough opportunities for the business; stimulate supplier capabilities to generate ideas for the future.

　　To be successful in this role you will need:

　　Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body, e.g., CIPS.Experience in Procurement, Finance, FMCG Commercial or other relevant role, with subject-matter expertise in supply markets and spend categories relevant to the role.Demonstrated performance in projects and in cross-market teams, experience developing and driving category and procurement strategies, managing, and negotiating with suppliers.Strong analytical and financial awareness including a strong understanding of AOP requirements and financial goals & value drivers relevant to the categories in scope.Track record of generating insights to influence decision-making; good commercial savvy.Good systems knowledge (esp. SAP, M/S Office, E-collaborate or similar systems & tools).Strong verbal, written and presentation skills; strong interpersonal skills.Proven track record of consistent performance and delivery.Clear track record working within a standard, end to end process, preferably ‘Source’ (generically, Source-to-Pay); proven track record in adherence to Core Process and Standards.Experience working within KPI-led performance management structures and rigorous tiered reporting and performance review structures.Proactively demonstrates the learning curriculums and materials on Learning Hub and other sources to continuously grow and develop in role.

　　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, 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 activitiesContributary pension schemeShare 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 these, 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:

　　1HQ

　　Additional Locations :

　　Edinburgh Park, St James Gate

　　Job Posting Start Date :

　　2023-12-07