Category Manager, Demand

Job Description :

Job Title: Category Manager, Demand

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 Function:

Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive! We’re dedicated to maximising the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.

The team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

North America Marketing Procurement plays a significant role in achieving Diageo North America's business productivity and growth goal! The Customer Marketing VAP (Value-Added Packing), Coupons, and Graphic Services categories seek an individual who will deliver substantial value to our business and ensure that Diageo’s marketing investments fuel brand growth.These categories are critical to achieving our Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and 2030 goals. The primary accountability for this role is to drive value by ensuring the commercial aspects of spending in these categories are driven brilliantly with our vendors.

This role will lead sourcing decisions with key stakeholders and support the delivery of value-driving initiatives. Additionally, this individual will manage supplier relationships, compliance and risk, financial reporting, and critical metric reporting.

The successful candidate will bring procurement and marketing experience to enhance our understanding of the supplier landscape, innovations, technologies, and processes that deliver value and reduce risks. The role involves contributing to key areas such as coupon value chain enhancements, VAP design & sustainability planning and execution, supplier capabilities assessment, value chain efficiencies identification, effective programming implementation. We seek a candidate who can help determine how value is captured and measured.

Role Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

Develop category strategies

Develop a solid understanding of industry landscapes, business trends, and navigation strategies.

Deliver year projects that drive savings, cost avoidance and value add

Demonstrate strong commercial competence and judgment to bring value.

Establish agency partnerships and structure deals effectively.

Exhibit robust project management skills along with operational change management capabilities.

Develop team profiles as authentic business partners within a global enterprise.

Build trust quickly with partners through credibility.

Devise and carry out category strategies for VAPs/Coupons/Graphic Services.

Maintain personal accountability for excellent performance and brilliant execution.

Collaborate with Marketing, Customer Marketing, Legal & Finance teams at Diageo North America; engage with NA/Global Procurement colleagues to drive continuous improvement agendas.

Create annual operating plans that meet or exceed value delivery targets.

Set joint objectives with partners; conduct agency business reviews reflecting achievements against critical metrics; analyze performance gaps; actively manage continuous improvement efforts.

Complete category programs under their responsibility through great execution.

Deliver excellence benefits via sourcing strategies: demand management; supplier relationship management; contract management; supplier development/innovation initiatives.

Serve as a key interface ensuring full stakeholder engagement maximizing commercial advantage minimizing risk assuring quality delivery/performance consistently promoting the highest ethics/compliance standards.

Additional Responsibilities:

Freight:

Manage logistics operations optimizing freight costs ensuring timely deliveries across all customer marketing categories (POS, Experiential, VAP, Coupons)

Implement standard methodologies improving transportation efficiency reducing carbon footprint.

Fulfillment:

Oversee inventory levels ensuring product availability meeting customer demands.

Streamline fulfillment processes enhancing order accuracy/speed.

Warehousing:

Optimize warehouse space utilization implementing efficient storage solutions.

Ensure compliance with safety regulations maintaining high standards.

Complexity of the Role:

This role involves working across various complex projects involving multiple partners requiring financial knowledge for budget/savings recognition, influencing communication skills and bringing partners, and suppliers onboard successful project implementations.

Qualifications & Experience Required:

Bachelor's Degree required; MBA preferred.

Minimum three years’ procurement experience within FMCG or agency environments.

Proficiency in procurement skills including strategy development negotiations forecasting benchmarking required.

Strong analytical abilities forensic cost driver understanding targeting influencing cost reductions end-to-end.

Ability working agile fast-paced environments prioritizing according business needs.

Strong communication influencing skills internal external stakeholder engagement.

Top Leadership Capabilities Required:

Authenticity creating possibilities consistent great performance connecting Diageo Purpose imperative.

High energy commitment and relentless goal pursuit.

Commercial awareness alongside strong communication abilities.

Flexible Working Statement:

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.

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 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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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-12-20

Salary Range:

Minimum Salary:

$112125

Maximum Salary:

$186875

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.