Global Process Lead - Commercial Foundations

Global Process Lead - Commercial Foundations (West)

12 months opportunity, full-time

Location: London

Closing date: 28th October 2025

Please note language mandatory requirement: English and Portuguese/Spanish

About the role

This role requires solid commercial cross functional expertise, and experience working in different market archetypes.

Responsibilities:

- Working with Global Process Leads and markets to identify the most critical capability gaps across both M&E and Customer Contract Management;

- Supporting the market as they address these gaps

- Co-Create and design solutions across all enablers to address gaps and review how we Measure & Evaluate our Customer Investments

- Work with local commercial leaders to Deploy these solutions in specific markets

- Once deployed, continue to drive the continuous improvements required to reach the desired capability standard

You will be given support and guidance by the incumbent Global Process Leads, and there will be dedicated GPO training to build your own capability.

This role partners with various stakeholders, including GPOs, in-market commercial, and operational teams to drive process improvements.

About You

• Demonstrate solid understanding of commercial processes
• 10+ years of Commercial (Sales Ops, RGM, Senior Customer Management, and/or Customer Marketing) experience in TBA / FMCG
• Ability to inspire teams through influencing skills and stakeholder management
• Ability to collaborate efficiently and foster strong relationships cross functional/ cultural/ regional teams with in a fast-moving complex environment
• Be externally curious to anticipate trends, and adopt quickly
• Ability to deep dive in specific topics as well as think on strategic level
• Proven change management and project management skills
• Process improvement and standardization experience is essential
• Ability to design, document new processes and define effective roll-out and embedment/ adoption while acting decisively

Ideally candidates would have broad commercial experiences, including:

- Strategy Development

- Market Analysis

- Sales and Revenue Management

- Customer Relationship Management

- Supply Chain Optimization

- Financial Management

- Team Leadership

- Cross-Functional

- Compliance and Risk Management

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:

• 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.