Logistics Manager - Korea

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Plant, TN, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Manufacturing
The Role
Lead end-to-end logistics operations for Diageo Korea, managing customs, 3PLs, warehousing, transportation, rework and customer deliveries. Ensure compliance with local regulations and food safety, control logistics costs and inventory, drive continuous improvement, manage one direct report, and support regional projects and sustainability initiatives.
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Logistics Manager - Korea

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. 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

Supply Chain and Manufacturing 

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. 

With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. 

It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love. 

About the role

This role is a part of MOVE Center of Excellence (above market) for Diageo, and is responsible for all logistics activities in Diageo Korea.

  • This role is responsible in managing end-to-end Logistics operational activities (customs forwarder / warehousing /rework and domestic customer order delivery . This role also manages the running scope for customer service, including customer delivery on-time, customer logistics communication and customer supply network optimization.

  • Ensure local quality and food safety of product are delivered to satisfy customer.

  • Delivery of strategic objectives in managing Logistics operations to meet our key measurement.

  • Handling and managing additional customer/consumer complaints, including coordinate with products track and trace, equipment reverse logistics.  

  • Support in market specific activities, including annual stuffs sales, etc.

  • Manages the operation under Korea local regulation, e.g.. manage the RFID automation rework line.

Complexity and Scope

  • As a part of APAC Centre of Excellence (COE), this role will partner with regional stakeholders across the global organization.

  • Diageo Korea has 1 contracted warehouse in Incheon while warehouse and rework operation is managed by 3rd party logistics company.  

  • This role will sure Diageo Korea is committed to complying with Korea local regulations for operating the logistics process as well as DIAGEO’s standards and code of business conduct (COBC)

Role Responsibilities

Financial / Revenue Responsibilities

  • Propose, manage, and control the agreed budget in Operational Expenditures (Move cost) by working closely with the related stakeholders (Supply Financial Team, Procurement, supply, and others) to ensure agreed budgets are delivered effectively and efficiently.

  • Provide regular analysis and review to the management for the risks and opportunities in delivering efficient financial performance, prioritising on Logistics cost.

  • Review and manage inventory level and logistics RCCP as targeted in yearly AOP

  • Ad Hoc Project Manager to drive productivity and savings aligned with given targets.

Role Responsibilities / Accountabilities

  • Management of business process in Logistics based on the Diageo Best Practice Standard.

  • Take on the responsibility of a people manager managing 1 headcount

  • Ensure demand fulfilment and customer satisfaction related to the Logistics process, which includes resolving customer/consumer complaints.

  • Implementation of continuous improvement projects as a regional requirement and optimization of logistics costs as well as carbon footprint management and driving of sustainability agenda.

  • Implementation of Controls Assurance and Risk Management (CARM), and Local Regulation forTransportation and Warehousing activities.

  • Implement the Diageo Standard in customs clearance / Transportation and Warehousing activities.

  • New innovation project in logistics area e.g. Route-to-customer, warehouse supply network design.

  • Extensive contact and close collaboration with the APAC Planning & Logistics Team and related stakeholders in market (SCDs, FDs) to meet the main goal of the business.

  • Management of 3PL and Logistics Service Provider effectively, to meet the main goal of the business

  • Champion cooperation and partnership to provide integrated solutions to problems

Experience / skills required

Qualification & Job Requirement

  • Bachelor's degree at minimum, background in Logistics is preferred

  • At least +5 years of experience in Logistics activities, specifically in Transportation and Warehousing.

  • Possess critical thinking skills and ability to manage large database and multiple systems concurrently

  • Effectively bilingual in both English and Korean.

  • Proven track record in leading business improvement and transformation projects

  • SAP system knowledge is a must have.

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

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.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.

Recruitment Scam Warning

Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Icheon Plant

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-08-13

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least 5 years of logistics experience in transportation and warehousing
  • SAP system knowledge
  • Effectively bilingual in English and Korean
  • Proven track record leading business improvement and transformation projects
  • Possess critical thinking skills and ability to manage large databases and multiple systems concurrently
  • Background in logistics

Diageo Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Diageo and has not been reviewed or approved by Diageo.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive and often described as top-tier, particularly in manufacturing and salaried roles, with many indicating they feel fairly compensated. Compensation is frequently cited as a strong reason to join and stay despite pressures in some parts of the business.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave is widely recognized as a flagship offering, equalized across parents and inclusive of adoption and surrogacy, with benefits and bonuses maintained during leave. This family-friendly approach is highlighted as industry-leading and a standout element of the package.
  • Retirement Support Pension schemes are described as generous, with notable employer contributions enhancing long‑term financial security. In key markets such as the UK and U.S., offerings like pensions and 401(k) plans are presented as core components of total rewards.

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The Company
HQ: London
32,334 Employees

What We Do

Diageo's official LinkedIn account. 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 out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future. To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet

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