Job Description :
Media & Consumer Planning- Europe Marketing Procurement Specialist (5B)
Location: London, England
Permanent
Closing date: August 4, 2023
Join our Procurement Team
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 champion and the results we deliver.
So, this is about people as much as numbers. Establishing relationships internally, so you know what we need; and externally, to enable you to bring to us solutions on what is possible and industry leading.
About the Role
As part of the Procurement team you will play a significant contribution towards Diageo’s business, productivity and growth goals. Within the Marketing A&P, the Media category is the largest spend area with ambitions for further growth. There is, therefore, a need to drive efficiency in the spend and ways of operating to deliver value creation to support operating margin improvement and competitive advantage. The Consumer Insights into our business are key to ensuring me make the right commercial and strategic decisions.
The prime accountability for the role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in this category are implemented thoughtfully with our vendors to unlock the value and business performance that procurement can bring. The role is also pivotal is driving a data led approach to our investment decision making, whilst maximising both efficiency and effectiveness of that investment.
The category has a number of partners including the local market Media and Consumer Planning teams, the Marketing Effectiveness function and other digital teams, as well as our agency partners and wider networks. Business partnering is key.
You will be joining the fantastic Europe Marketing Procurement team and working directly with the other Category Specialists and Category Managers Globally and locally. Scope of Europe region includes the Market clusters of GB, Ireland, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, MENA (Middle East North Africa) and Turkiye.
You will become the subject matter expert across Media and Consumer Planning and work closely with our Global Procurement team.
As a key person in our dedicated team, your focus in this role is:
- Applying strategic Procurement excellence, through feeding into the Global Category Strategy and creation of the Europe Category Strategy/Implementation plan. Ensuring that plans considers market insights, deliver excellence benefits and drives value in line with targets.
- Delivery the category program through end to end execution of Category strategy, working to drive strategic projects, optimise innovation and identify untapped areas of opportunity.
- Leading sourcing activities, cost modelling, contract management, supplier relationship management, supplier innovation and supplier development activity using best in class processes and ways of working.
- Ensuring brilliant execution from our agency partners though business partnering as well as ongoing rigorous supplier performance management.
- Building relationships throughout the supply chain with media owners and technology partners for today and for the future.
- Truly understanding the capability requirements across Europe for Consumer Planning and aligning our agency ecosystem to ensure we are set up for success now and in the future.
- Driving a data led approach to our investment decision making within Europe whilst partnering with our Marketing investment team to optimise our A&P.
- Supporting digital transformation and playing a key role within Europe Procurement on this approach.
- Seeking to delivery year on year cost reduction and value creation to support operating margin improvement and competitive advantage.
- Delivery of both financial and non financial Key Performance Indicator's.
- Partnering across strategic business areas; Customer Operation, Innovation, Finance, Legal and Supply, ensuring full engagement to enhance commercial advantage, minimize risk and assuring quality of delivery and performance.
Recently the Total Europe Procurement team came together to review what the next 2-3 years look like and has now a very clear stretching ambition to exponentially increase the value it brings to Diageo, and also very importantly, how it brings that value. The Category Specialist will play a key role with the rest of the team to accelerate us towards that ambition.
About You
For this role we are looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:
- Dynamic individual with the ability to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment while finding clarity in ambiguous situations by stimulating alternative thinking. High level of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals.
- Experience in a Procurement, finance, Marketing or other relevant role.
- Strong commercial acumen, understanding of the business, and judgement; bringing value.
- Excellent stakeholder management.
- Project, operational and change management capabilities.
- Analytical skills, including forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value. Have commercial skill, understanding of the business and judgment.
- You can demonstrate consistent performance and examples of implementing projects and driving strategic change through influencing partners. You use industry knowledge and research to drive improvements.
- Strong communication skills are a key strength and you have the ability to articulate across all levels of the organization. Experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies is advantageous.
- Experience in negotiation to drive value.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Media and Consumer Promotions landscape.
- Degree educated or equivalent relevant work experience.
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
- Product allowance
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 inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. 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.
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, attitudes, 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.
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Join us, and you’ll be celebrated for your work and empowered to be you. Together with people around the world, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a tomorrow worth celebrating.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.
We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
1HQ
Additional Locations :
Edinburgh Park, Madrid, Onyx, Glasgow
Job Posting Start Date :
2023-07-21