Market Category Manager, Indirects, Europe

Job title: Market Category Manager, Indirects, Europe

Locations: London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Madrid

Permanent

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

As part of our Global Procurement team you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.

There’s a rich variety of commercial challenges for you to immerse yourself in as part of the procurement team. We want services, partnerships and products that meet our needs today and tomorrow. We have high benchmarks for sustainability. And we want to be the best, in terms of the partnerships we foster and the results we deliver.

So this is about people as much as numbers. Building relationships internally, so you know what we need; and externally, so you know what can be achieved. Then, you’ll find the right matches for our requirements – and see those deals through.

About this role

The Diageo Europe Indirects Procurement team has always been a significant contributor towards Diageo productivity and growth goals and considered a trusted and respected partner internally and externally.

Most recently, total Europe Procurement Team came together to review its ambition for the next 2-3 years and has a very clear strategy to exponentially increase the value it brings to Diageo, and also very importantly, how it brings that value.

The new strategic priorities have been clearly identified as next generation of investment optimization, continuing to build the appropriate networks, driving a step change in stakeholder sufficiency, enhancing digitalization opportunities, and very prominently accelerating the delivery of our ESG ambition.

The Category Manager for Indirects Europe is a critical leadership role as part of the Europe Procurement Leadership Team that will steer this next chapter and will also be expected to play a business partnering role with key European exec members.

The Indirects category scope includes Facilities and Real Estate, Fleet, HR, outsourced services to enable our Route to Customer/Consumer model, Legal, CR and Consultancy.

The spend of direct influence for this role is ca. $450m and in addition to delivering the strategic priorities, this role also has accountability and responsibility for delivering financial and non-financial targets for this spend through the deployment of Global and Europe category strategies.

The core activities/deliverables of this role are:

• Responsible for managing the total Indirects procurement scope through brilliant execution including sourcing and supplier relationship management and development

• Responsible for managing and developing a direct team of category specialists

• Deliver financial and non-financial critical metrics

• Ownership of the annual planning cycle for Europe Indirects as part of the overall global process

• Drive and support best practice and innovative models for sourcing, cost models, benchmarking, SRM/SPM and e-sourcing – working closely with Global Procurement and other in-market Procurement teams.

• Lead and support on the DSC roll-out in Europe including embedding Fairmarkit and supporting the integrated ecosystems improvements.

• Partner with Global Procurement Category teams on relevant market insights, input and builds for all category strategy and benchmarking work.

• Lead local market sourcing and support global sourcing and supplier relationship management activity across Indirects categories

• Ultimately accountable for key external suppliers/agencies in the defined categories to improve commercial advantage, minimize risk and assuring quality of delivery and performance.

• Lead procurement productivity agenda identifying and implementing transformational behavioral changes beyond immediate functional responsibilities.

About you

• To be successful in role you will have Procurement or Commercial or Consultancy experience in an FMCG environment.

• Proven experience in key procurement skills including, strategy development, negotiations (Complex / multi-country negotiations), analysis (cost drivers), forecasting and benchmarking, ideally in a Marketing Procurement context.

• Strong knowledge of financial drivers to shape procurement strategies.  Proven experience in taking informed, calculated risks to achieve substantial strategic gains.

• Strong analytical skills. Forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value.

• Ability to work in an agile, fast moving and ambiguous environment and ability to keep up with pace of change and prioritize according to business needs.

• Strong communication and influencing skills and personal impact to gain credibility quickly with senior stakeholders and generate followership.

Working with us

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.

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, outlooks, 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 the next level 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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