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Head of Tequila
Head of Tequila-March 2024
Mexico City
Mar 22, 2025
ABOUT DIAGEO
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits and beer.
10,000+ employees
Consumer Goods & Services, Food & Beverage
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About Head of Tequila

  Job Description :

  Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Don Julio, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.

  As the #1 brand in equity, Don Julio is the most loved Tequila in Mexico with a huge heritage and relevance in the local marketing and in consumers hearts. It’s a brand where we want to win with consumers, customers, partners and all other key team members that make this the biggest power brand in Mexico. In this journey, we will be consolidating the brand as the undisputed leader in the category achieving greater scale behind a strong positioning, communication platforms and confirmed growth drivers.

  Whilst the role is a Marketing role that requires marketing flair and commercial competence, given the priority that DJ has for the business both locally and globally, we are seeking for a big business leader who will handle and lead the brand through strong commercial skills and understanding as well as leading global, regional and local business conversations with key multi-functional team members, integrating all parts of the business behind the brand’s strategy and outstanding execution of all plans, including innovation that is key in accelerating recruitment, premiumisation and overall brand’s performance.

  Capabilities

  Win through execution: You have a “ hunger” and a big aim to make things happen. Your bias for action moves teams and organizations forward, and have clear evidence of how you have brought bold strategies to life.

  Invest in talent: You are passionate and have experience crafting teams , developing and mentoring people, and raising the bar to build hard-working environments.

  Shape the future: You are a self starter at heart. You build your own path forward, feel comfortable taking risks and not having all variables in place to make decisions, and you like experimenting and testing before scaling at #speed.

  Inspire through purpose: You have confirmed capabilities to Influence and encourage the organization and partners at different levels to move forward and get to a common ambition.

  Top 3-5 Accountabilities:

  Beat Annual Operating Plan (Turnover & Profit)

  Beat the competition (in terms of Value Share and Brand Strength Score - Equity)

  Drive accelerated and balanced value, recruitment and constant penetration.

  Lead the business in developing brand’s annual strategies & plans leading and encouraging multifunctional teams.

  Qualifications and Experience Required:

  Experience in CPG and / or luxury industry

  Graduate with 12yrs Marketing & Sales experience, with confirmed experience building leading brands.

  Outstanding relationship skills: consistent record to influence across functions and markets.

  Comprehensive marketing and financial decision-making experience.

  Shown success in building powerful emotional-benefit brands.

  Shown success in leading a business in delivering a demanding P&L.

  Lead and implement budget and A&P planning wisely and effectively.

  Strategic problem solver with deep consumer understanding.

  High Energy, “can do” personality who takes strong ownership of the business. Results oriented with a huge drive.

  Comfortable working in fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, able to navigate a clear path forward even at times of ambiguity and uncertainty.

  Strong at building, coaching and leading teams.

  Strong commercial competence & customer understanding (On & Off Premise).

  Good at leading innovation strategies and detecting clear spaces of opportunity to capitalize in new occasions.

  Direct external agencies on the development, execution and measurement of marketing comms and activation plans.

  Excellent analytical and management skills with the ability to handle multiple priorities, across multiple functions.

  Proficient in English & Spanish

  Flexibility

  This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways,. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

  Diversity statement

  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

  Worker Type :

  Regular

  Primary Location:

  Mexico City

  Additional Locations :

  Job Posting Start Date :

  2024-01-11

  With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

  Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

  With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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  What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)

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