Global Procurement Category Specialist – Customer Marketing
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Location and Contract
Contract: Permanent. Locations: London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin (Hybrid, 2–3 days a week in office).
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.
About The Role
As a Global Procurement Category Specialist within Customer Marketing, you’ll help Diageo spend marketing budgets wisely, save money and use cash efficiently. You’ll support the decision making behind where our marketing investments should go, ensure suppliers deliver as expected and collaborate globally with Marketing, Sales, Finance and Procurement teams to grow our brands and align on strategy.
Key Responsibilities
* Contribute to Diageo’s $625m cost savings target by delivering productivity improvements and establishing a pipeline of value for future years across Customer A&P.
* Support Diageo’s $3b free cash flow target by identifying cash opportunities across Customer A&P and developing a robust delivery pipeline.
* Optimise Diageo’s Customer A&P (55/35/10) to maximise growth and performance, reducing inefficient and ineffective spend, leveraging investment insights, data, and strategy across the ‘35’ and shopper ‘10’.
* Collaborate with Global Customer Marketing Procurement and Marketing Effectiveness teams to deliver a ‘One Customer’ effectiveness strategy, enhancing data and insights globally and across markets.
* Strengthen strategic partnerships and business value between Global Commercial and Procurement functions by actively driving core workstreams.
* Apply strategic procurement excellence through creation or support of category strategies, using Diageo’s best methods, standards, and tools to deliver procurement value.
* Lead or support global sourcing activities, ensuring agency commercial terms, capabilities, and contracts align with Diageo’s performance ambitions.
* Develop subject‑matter expertise in specific spend categories, leveraging external market/industry knowledge to inform strategy development and sourcing.
* Adhere to and promote the highest standards of compliance, including risk management, contract management, and cost modelling/benchmarking.
* Work dynamically across categories, proactively identifying opportunities for flexible resourcing.
* Actively participate in the global procurement community, including attending and leading meetings, supporting strategy alignment, developing capabilities, and sharing best practices.
* Collaborate with Finance, Data & Analytics to enhance spend analytics, A&P investment insights, and cross‑category collaboration in line with investment optimisation strategy, including enhancing core systems such as Nucleus and adoption of DSC strategy.
About You – Ideal Candidate
* Significant experience in Procurement, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, or related roles.
* Membership of CIPS or another professional procurement organisation preferred.
* Skilled at building and maintaining strong partnerships externally with agencies and suppliers, and internally with business, commercial, and marketing teams.
* Experience delivering projects and working in cross‑market teams, including developing and delivering category and procurement strategies and managing supplier relationships.
* Strong analytical, financial, and commercial awareness, with clear understanding of business requirements, financial goals, and value drivers relevant to the categories.
* Ability to generate insights that influence decision‑making, with a strong commercial perspective.
* Technically literate, with experience using systems effectively.
* Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate and communicate across markets and time zones.
* Comfortable challenging established practices, using insights, benchmarks, and external market knowledge to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decisions.
Working with Us
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, attitudes, and more.
Feel Inspired? This May Be the Opportunity for You!
If you are excited to apply your procurement expertise to drive cost efficiencies, generate insights that shape marketing spend, and build lasting partnerships in a global, collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply.
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