We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry. With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands ou...
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To be successful in this role:
We’re looking for people with character: driven, resilient and open-minded. Are you passionate about customer service and driving excellence within your team? We certainly hope so!
We’re looking for someone with experience leading elite teams whilst ensuring excellent customer service standards are adhered to at all times. You’ll value the importance of working in a team and demonstrate the ability to build strong working relationships with customers as well as key partners.
You'll be eager to lead projects and put forward your own ideas to sustain and improve the business ensuring direct contribution to the performance of the Brand Home.
You’ll be experienced working towards targets and have the strive to achieve vital targets whilst subsequently leading the team every day to work towards these targets.
You’ll be flexible as the role requires both evening and weekend work throughout the year and this will be planned in advance. It’d be excellent if you had an understanding of Microsoft office or similar applications however this is not crucial.
Working with Us
Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:
- Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Contributory pension scheme
- Competitive annual bonus (dependent on performance)
- Generous holiday allowance
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.
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About the function
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximising the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.
Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.
About this role
The Customer Marketing Procurement Specialist role is part of our global community of procurement professionals. The global community is responsible for delivering a significant contribution towards Diageo’s business, productivity and growth goals. Within Customer Marketing, the Category is a top investment area across POS, Experiential & Customer A&P spend.
As Category Specialist in our European Procurement team, you will help manage procurement projects across all markets in the European region. This includes Great Britain, Ireland, France, Iberia, DACH (Germany, Switzerland & Austria), Italy, Benelux & Nordics, Greece, Poland, Eastern Europe (EE), and Middle East & North Africa (MENA). You will partner with wider Customer Marketing team, both regionally and globally where required across the following initiatives:
- Building Category Market Implementation Plans: Applying strategic procurement excellence, through feeding into the Global Category Strategy and creation of the Europe Category Strategy/Implementation plan. Your plans should consider market insights, deliver excellence benefits, and drive value in line with targets.
- Strategic Execution: Supporting end-to-end execution of category strategies, working with global and other market category professionals in line with strategy.
- Business Partnering: Cultivate and nurture key stakeholder connections internally and externally to help shape investment decisions, drive commercial advantage, minimize risk, and ensure quality of delivery and performance.
- Agency Ecosystem Management: Drive development and optimization of the agency ecosystem for business and brand needs.
- Sourcing Excellence: Spearhead sourcing activities including negotiating with agency partners, implementing workplans, navigating agency selection processes, and contracting.
- Relationship Collaboration Programme (RCP) Leadership: Drive RCP initiatives across relevant areas.
- Driving the Highest Standards of Compliance: Through risk management processes, spend monitoring, segmentation, savings tracking & reporting, contract management, cost modelling/benchmarking.
- Data-Led Decision Making: Utilize key tools and data to generate insights that enable you to objectively challenge established practices to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making.
- Subject Expertise: Develop deep expertise in specific spend categorie
About you
We are looking for a dynamic individual with high levels of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals. You will be required to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment & always aim to find clarity in ambiguous situations.
Your application will be assessed across the following criteria:
- Significant marketing procurement experience preferably within BTL marketing.
- Independent thinker with strong leadership & communication skills, able to inspire internal marketing team members and external agency partners.
- Strong analytical skills lined to a commercial 'business owner' mindset.
- Deep understanding of cost drivers that can influence the end-to-end value chain.
- Demonstration of consistent performance examples of executing projects that made strategic change for your area.
- Examples of how you drive change through influencing business stakeholders.
- Industry knowledge and 'outside-in' thinking to drive business improvements.
- Your ability to communicate & articulate across all levels of the organization.
- Experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies is advantageous.
- Experience in high-spend negotiations in a Procurement function would be advantageous
- Experience in a Procurement, Finance, Project Management, Marketing, Commercial or other relevant role.
- Experience in FMCG or beverage sector would be a bonus
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About the Role
In this role you will be the personification of Diageo’s ambition: to become the world's best-performing, most-trusted consumer goods company and build category-leading partnerships with industry-leading outlets. We are looking for someone with a sophisticated sense of style, who can present themselves and our products to reflect the luxury brand's image and values.
You will be focused on finding the right distribution and activation opportunities to cut through and create momentum in the luxury on trade. You will be visiting hotels, bars, pubs and restaurants within your region. Your enthusiasm, energy and belief in our powerhouse brands, positive approach and bias to action will help to build a dynamic, creative team culture and forge the right business-building relationship with other commercial teams in Diageo, to leverage route to consumer expertise, unlocks new opportunities and always keep the customer experience at the heart of decision making.
The wide-ranging brand portfolio at Diageo provides the role a huge array of opportunities to match customer needs across the different segmentations of the on trade and in doing so will bring to life our luxury brand identities that are core to the success of Diageo.
Role Responsibilities-
- Brand Building: Enhance brand status and sales in key outlets by achieving monthly, quarterly, and yearly distribution targets.
- Customer Relationship Management: Manage day-to-day relationships using negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Profit & Loss Accountability: Ensure profitable growth through strategic ROI decisions aligned with customer priorities.
- Collaboration: Work with the Luxury Marketing Manager on menu creation, activations, and engagement. Maintain proactive communication for standout results.
- Forecasting & Performance Management: Provide accurate forecasts and manage performance metrics. Connect with RTM and supply teams to ensure brand visibility.
- Activation Leadership: Partner with Luxury Marketing and Advocacy teams to integrate brands into culture through effective activations.
Required Experience/Skills
- Early in career experience across commercial roles, including on-trade/account management.
- Insight into influential on-trade GB customers to drive impactful commercial plans.
- Passion for premium brands and strong negotiation skills.
- Proficient in P&L analysis; able to derive insights from data.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and interact confidently with senior collaborators.
- Networking skills to manage external customers while collaborating internally to contribute.
- Entrepreneurial approach for acquiring new customers.
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About the Role
- In this role you will be the personification of Diageo’s ambition: to become the world's best-performing, most-trusted consumer goods company and build category-leading partnerships with industry-leading outlets. We are looking for someone with a sophisticated sense of style, who can present themselves and our products to reflect the luxury brand's image and values.
- You will be focused on finding the right distribution and activation opportunities to cut through and create momentum in the luxury on trade. You will be visiting hotels, bars, pubs and restaurants within your region. Your enthusiasm, energy and belief in our powerhouse brands, positive approach and bias to action will help to build a dynamic, creative team culture and forge the right business-building relationship with other commercial teams in Diageo, to leverage route to consumer expertise, unlocks new opportunities and always keep the customer experience at the heart of decision making.
- The wide-ranging brand portfolio at Diageo provides the role a huge array of opportunities to match customer needs across the different segmentations of the on trade and in doing so will bring to life our luxury brand identities that are core to the success of Diageo.
Role Responsibilities-
- Brand Building: Enhance brand status and sales in key outlets by achieving monthly, quarterly, and yearly distribution targets.
- Customer Relationship Management: Manage day-to-day relationships using negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Profit & Loss Accountability: Ensure profitable growth through strategic ROI decisions aligned with customer priorities.
- Collaboration: Work with the Luxury Marketing Manager on menu creation, activations, and engagement. Maintain proactive communication for standout results.
- Forecasting & Performance Management: Provide accurate forecasts and manage performance metrics. Connect with RTM and supply teams to ensure brand visibility.
- Activation Leadership: Partner with Luxury Marketing and Advocacy teams to integrate brands into culture through effective activations.
Required Experience/Skills
- Early in career experience across commercial roles, including on-trade/account management.
- Insight into influential on-trade GB customers to drive impactful commercial plans.
- Passion for premium brands and strong negotiation skills.
- Proficient in P&L analysis; able to derive insights from data.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and interact confidently with senior collaborators.
- Networking skills to manage external customers while collaborating internally to contribute.
- Entrepreneurial approach for acquiring new customers.
go to method of application »
About the Role
- In this role you will be the personification of Diageo’s ambition: to become the world's best-performing, most-trusted consumer goods company and build category-leading partnerships with industry-leading outlets. We are looking for someone with a sophisticated sense of style, who can present themselves and our products to reflect the luxury brand's image and values.
- You will be focused on finding the right distribution and activation opportunities to cut through and create momentum in the luxury on trade. You will be visiting hotels, bars, pubs and restaurants within your region. Your enthusiasm, energy and belief in our powerhouse brands, positive approach and bias to action will help to build a dynamic, creative team culture and forge the right business-building relationship with other commercial teams in Diageo, to leverage route to consumer expertise, unlocks new opportunities and always keep the customer experience at the heart of decision making.
- The wide-ranging brand portfolio at Diageo provides the role a huge array of opportunities to match customer needs across the different segmentations of the on trade and in doing so will bring to life our luxury brand identities that are core to the success of Diageo.
Role Responsibilities-
- Brand Building: Enhance brand status and sales in key outlets by achieving monthly, quarterly, and yearly distribution targets.
- Customer Relationship Management: Manage day-to-day relationships using negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Profit & Loss Accountability: Ensure profitable growth through strategic ROI decisions aligned with customer priorities.
- Collaboration: Work with the Luxury Marketing Manager on menu creation, activations, and engagement. Maintain proactive communication for standout results.
- Forecasting & Performance Management: Provide accurate forecasts and manage performance metrics. Connect with RTM and supply teams to ensure brand visibility.
- Activation Leadership: Partner with Luxury Marketing and Advocacy teams to integrate brands into culture through effective activations.
Required Experience/Skills
- Early in career experience across commercial roles, including on-trade/account management.
- Insight into influential on-trade GB customers to drive impactful commercial plans.
- Passion for premium brands and strong negotiation skills.
- Proficient in P&L analysis; able to derive insights from data.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and interact confidently with senior collaborators.
- Networking skills to manage external customers while collaborating internally to contribute.
- Entrepreneurial approach for acquiring new customers.
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