Marketing Procurement Category Specialist- Experiential Marketing/Customer Marketing

Marketing Procurement Category Specialist-  Experiential Marketing/Customer Marketing

Location: London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin or Madrid
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
 

Join our Procurement Team
As the custodians of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year, across 180 markets globally. The commercial challenges here are large, diverse and endlessly fascinating. Never more so than in Procurement.

As an organisation, we spend over £5 billion per year. And as the driving force in this expenditure, our Procurement teams make a far-reaching contribution to our business, productivity and growth goals – right across the globe. Premium quality and end-to-end, sustainable value are how we measure our success – across services, partnerships and products. We always want to be the best and, along with engaging the best talent to work with the best products, this is how we attempt to do it. Ultimately, this is about people as much as numbers. We build great relationships internally and externally – so we understand our needs and how to meet them. Every time. Join us in Procurement and, if you’re driven, resilient and share our pioneering spirit, there’s a world of opportunity here for you.

About the Role

As part of our Europe Procurement team you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.

The Diageo Europe Marketing Procurement team has always been a significant contributor towards Diageo productivity and growth goals and considered a trusted and respected partner internally and externally.

Experiential Marketing includes sampling, events/roadshows and at/in home events to drive memorable engagement and experiences with consumers and value for customers. The Category Specialist Experiential Marketing will be a member of a team of Category Specialists working directly with Europe Category Managers and Global Category Managers.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• To apply strategic procurement excellence, through creation and deployment of Europe Category Strategy built on Diageo’s best methods, standards, and tools, to deliver procurement value and embed a cost consciousness culture that supports investment optimisation in Experiential Marketing categories.

• 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.

• To deploy category management techniques to avoid wastage and pursue outstanding spend practices.

• Lead and implement ongoing supplier performance initiatives through key performance indicators and service level agreements and application of a robust supplier review mechanism within a total contract ownership approach.

• Driving category excellence through execution of improve projects in line with the categories strategic objectives.

• Pro-actively Collaborate with partners building towards full engagement across all Europe markets.

• Adhere to and always promote the highest standards of compliance. This includes risk management processes and contract management.

• Generate insights and have good commercial foresight to objectively challenge established practice to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making.

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