Global Supplier Excellence Manager

Global Supplier Excellence Manager
Location: London or Edinburgh
 

About us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character, and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the diversity of our talent and strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

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.
 

About the role

This is a global leadership position that sits within Diageo’s Procurement structure under our Global Supply, Diversity & Excellence Pillar. You will collaborate with both regional and global leaders to develop and implement strategies with our key suppliers. The role will be crucial in achieving Diageo’s sustainability goals, including our ‘Spirit of Progress’ and ‘Grain to Glass’ initiatives.

This team is an enabler to developing external roadmaps with a prime focus on sustainability and environmental goals (scope 3 / ESG). We are focused on developing world class category strategies and in-market Procurement resources focused on excellence in execution of category strategies and supplier performance management.

• The purpose of the role is twofold: First is to create, lead and embed transformational external roadmap strategies into our holistic global category strategies, which in turn become embedded into our market implementation plans.

• Secondly is to Lead, support and inspire a team of 4 ‘Supply Excellence Sourcing Leads’, who will own the external roadmap transformation plans of our most critical suppliers. They will draw on the experience gained from our internal sustainability efforts and ensure the necessary visibility, planning, and investment to achieve our Grain to Glass strategy.

• Although the role will sit within the Supply Diversity & Excellence team, which represents the whole of the procurement organisation, the individual will work very closely with the Grain to Glass Strategy Teams to embed strategy into the roadmaps.
   

About you

We are looking for an individual with a drive to be the best: a brilliant influencer and a global leader that can bring our internal procurement and sustainability teams together through the enablement of external road maps & joint business plans with the prime objective of delivering Diageo’s 2030 Spirit of Progress ambitions through our external eco-systems.

Key accountabilities include

• Attend the ‘Global Supply & Sustainable Procurement’ monthly leadership meeting to demonstrate progress against our initial critical supplier segmentation model.

• Establish and lead Diageo’s supplier excellence procurement governance with a high focus on Scope 3 / ESG ways of working through the development and deployment of external roadmaps.

• Coach and Inspire the Supplier Excellence team and influence the broader Procurement stakeholders to align workstreams with the new ways of working, ensuring we have the detail, rigour, support and acceleration required to reach our overall strategy.

• Lead the agenda and strategy for developing a digital reporting system for scope 3 roadmaps, data governance to deliver our Grain to Grass Strategic outcomes through Procurements external eco-system.

• Support the GSSP (Global Supply & Sustainable Procurement) leadership team with bold, radical ideation to develop reporting transparency across our critical supply base and bring alive the 2030 ‘Spirit of Progress’ and ‘Grain to Glass’ deliverables.

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