Director Planning, Innovation and Future Spaces

Job Description :

This is a fixed term contract role for 10 months.

Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of over 200 brands in over 180 countries globally, including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness!

Our performance ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. We are proud of the brands we make and the enjoyment they give to millions. We are passionate about alcohol playing a positive role in society as part of a balanced lifestyle. It is central to our purpose to celebrate life, every day, everywhere!

The Role:

This Director of Innovation and Future Spaces will report to the Vice President, Consumer Planning head, and will work closely in collaborating with their colleagues in Brand Marketing, Consumer Planning, Ideation Innovation, Commercial and Corporate Strategy, among many cross-functional collaborative partners. This director will also manage a team of two Senior Managers in the Innovation and Future Spaces team.

In this role, this Director will help shape, activate and evolve our agenda for Innovation and Future Spaces. This is a functionality within the Consumer Planning community focused on illuminating consumer-led white-spaces that will unlock medium-term and long-term growth opportunities for the total Diageo portfolio. This means identifying, crafting and implementing consumer-led insights on Total Beverage Alcohol industry, Consumer Culture, Macro Trends that will inform the future of consumer occasions, motivations and behaviors.

Qualifications:

12+ years working as a Strategy, Planning or Insight Professional, in a leading consumer goods company, a Branding/Comms/Creative Agency, or a consumer research consultancy, or within more than one of these areas

Skills & Knowledge:

A powerful strategic problem solver and strategic leader
Proven track record of using consumer and shopper insights to deliver empirically successful commercial action
Supremely comfortable with both qualitative and quantitative data sources, their analysis and use as sources of consumer insight
Analytical rigor, thought discipline and the ability to evaluate the power in multiple different sources of layered data simultaneously
A healthy challenging outlook on all new information, with high standards for the credibility and value of data
Expertise with the most up-to-date theories of Brand growth and decline, and an interest in how these are evolving
Ability to inspire and influence a team of experienced Brand Marketers and Consumer Planning Directors as well as a wide range of partners
Excellent facilitation skills –able to lead a team to unlock creative solutions to consumer issues
Ability to manage complexity. Distills and simplifies consumer and market knowledge from multiple sources into relevant priorities and then into clear, actionable implications

Behaviors:

A proactive collaborator who can draw strength from the involvement of others without ego getting in the way
Can direct and lead a broad team, including direct reports
Can successfully manage at all levels of the organization with equal integrity, commitment, effort and care
Passionate and curious about consumers –exhibit a constant thirst for discovering consumer insights and ability to communicate the insight and its importance to the business
Practical, pragmatic, results driven, outcome oriented, efficient operator, good multi-tasker. Will need to keep many plates spinning simultaneously.
Inspires others to be passionate about consumers
Loves comms and creative; cares about what consumers see from our Brands and how that lands with them.
Passionate about selling
Seeks simplicity and commonality ensuring that Brand strategies are applied widely, consistently and effectively
Sensitive to a diverse range of audiences; able to adapt quickly and make it look effortless
Strong presentation skills across materials (data visualization, inspiring decks, multi-media) and delivery
A powerful, positive Ambassador for Diageo in the world

Worker Type :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-05-14

Salary Range:

Minimum Salary:

$140588

Maximum Salary:

$234313

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.