Head of Supply Chain

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers worldwide. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

Key Outcomes:

A highly open supply chain leadership role for the full end to end Supply Chain for Colombia, and as part of the market´s leadership team.  Supply chain involves various processes including but not limited to demand planning, supply planning (DRP, MPS, MRP), procurement (demand, supply, indirect), manufacturing (co-packers), logistics (impo/expo, warehousing, transport), customer service (OTC), customer collaboration, innovation and brand change, technical, corporate real state services, finance and strategy.

In addition, will lead maintaining and improving business reputation, supply chain relationship with strategic customers, participation in industry chapters/chambers, industry partnership forums, while also building positive relationship with internal centers of perfection (CoEs) and external suppliers. The role is also in charge of the efficiency of the supply chain, aligned to the market´s strategic imperatives of market share, sales, cash, margin, cost, customer and service.

Key areas of focus:

• Full responsibility of Colombia Supply Chain and Procurement operations including: Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Customer, Technical, CRES (facilities).

• Efficiently navigate current global supply chain challenges while delivering against market´s outcomes.

• Run, Improve, and Transform the end-to-end Supply Chain operation to continuously enable the market´s ambitions – with short-, mid-, and long-term strategic plans to ensure top-line growth while improving efficiency year on year.

• Drive the customer partnership agenda with focus in efficiencies/alignments maximization (selling more with less) while securing the best service experience (preferred supplier as per customer satisfaction surveys).

• Accountable for full end to end COGS (product cost and logistic cost) and is the key point of contact for the business. Controlling and optimizing end to end cost to serve and focus on value creation across Supply categories

• Optimization of the inventory level to support the business and reduce cash exposure.

• Delivery of key KPI´s (Case fill, OTIFNE, Sales Forecast Accuracy, Inventory targets, cost)

• Ensuring that the Cash, margin, cost & Service objectives set by the organization are delivered compliantly.

• Deliver the Brand Change & Innovation pipeline through technical and commercialization strategies.

• Responsible for the local production agenda (including co-packers governance, what-if analysis, partnerships, etc.)

• Responsible for all procurement processes (direct and indirect).

• People agenda: Recruit, retain, engage, and develop talents, build culture of high-performance team and improve value survey scores year on year.

• Lead risk management, compliance agenda for Supply and for company and business partners.

• Accountable for the End-to-End OTC process for the market

• Supply network design

• Coordinated Business Planning

• Local production footprint

• Suppliers´ network

• Make/Buy/Ally

• COGS spend

• Product flow end-to-end

• Portfolio optimization

• RTC and Cost to serve

• Customer segmentation and service catalogue

• Team development and functional expertise

• Brand Change & Innovation Supply Gate Keeper

Top 3 functional capabilities for this role:

• Validated knowledge, experience and track record in End-to-End Supply Chain in FMCGs

• Planning, Logistics, Manufacturing, Procurement

• Commercial savvy, intuition for business

Top 3 leadership:

• Strong and distinctive leadership and influence

• Agile learner

• Critical thinking while thoughtfully execution the short-mid term

• Unlocking people full potential

Qualifications / knowledge / experience required / languages:

• +10yrs of experience in leadership roles within supply chain

• Master’s degree in supply chain, science or business

• Spanish, English proficiency

• Exponential growth businesses

• Demonstrates an accurate, structured and creative approach to delivering outcomes (over tasks)

• Track record in selling more with less without compromising service experience

• Route to consumer solutions delivery

• Leading outsource operations

• Demonstrates a strong analytical and logical approach to problem solving that generates cost-effective and commercially viable solutions

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace 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 and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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

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