Global Procurement Category Manager - Culture and Partnerships

Global Procurement Category Manager - Culture & Partnerships

About Us
Global Marketing Procurement is committed to deliver significant contribution towards Diageo’s growth goals, enabling brands and markets to win through using breakthrough procurement category strategies, sourcing execution and vendor relationship management to deliver and support competitive advantage.
 
The Culture & Partnerships category is multifaceted engaging a broad spectrum of collaborators (Consumer and Customer, Marketing, Sales, Corporate Relations) and diverse group of rights holders, agencies and suppliers. Stakeholder needs are often complex, unique and strategically important, requiring executive level engagement within Diageo and externally. 

About the Role
The prime accountability for the role is to ensure that our brands have the opportunity to engage with the most relevant and powerful cultural and partnership platforms, helping to drive effective creative excellence across Diageo’s brand portfolio, and ultimately driving brand performance. The role will engage a global community of passionate leaders in this category area, across procurement and marketing, to develop a One Diageo approach to Culture and Partnership engagement.  In addition, the role focuses on ensuring the commercial elements of the investment in this category are implemented brilliantly and in service of minimising duplication, delivering economies of scale and maximising the value and usage of creative output. 
 Key Accountabilities

• Partner with our marketing and brand teams to develop a cultural collaboration model for Diageo, that identifies through a needs-based approach, optimal cultural collaborations and partners for our brands, ensuring leading edge measurement and evaluation.

• Nurture a preferred roster of the world’s biggest cultural powerhouses, rights holders and agencies

• Drive brilliant commercial partnership outcomes for our brands, creating maximum value through innovative commercial constructs.

• Oversee and consult on the annual culture and partnership work plans for Diageo brands, building for optimal value

• Establish a global Diageo culture & partnerships community, creating a one Diageo approach to the category

• Actively engage and immerse in the world of culture to identify current/future trends and what is on the horizon, bringing this back to Diageo and informing our future strategy where appropriate

 About You

This is the perfect position for someone with experience in marketing, marketing procurement or with a marketing serviced company (agency).

You will be able to demonstrate strong marketing and culture understanding and ability to engage marketing stakeholders with a passion for creativity and good understanding of how creativity engages and builds brand saliency.

Your creativity will also extend to how you identify and develop smart commercial relationships that focus on optimising value.

Proven leadership credentials, influential skills and strong project and change management capabilities will set you up for success in this role.

We have a saying here – that character is everything. We’re looking for enthusiastic, curious, endlessly energetic people. Self-motivated, tenacious team-players who want to learn and grow – and fast.

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

• Contributary pension scheme

• Comprehensive health benefits

• 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.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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