Procurement Category Specialist, Customer Marketing

Job Title: Procurement Category Specialist, Customer Marketing

Contract: 12 month FTC

Location: Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Madrid, Hamburg - hybrid working

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.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

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.

Our procurement 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 this role

The Customer Marketing Procurement Specialist role is part of our global community of procurement professionals. The global community is responsible for delivering a significant contribution towards Diageo’s business, productivity and growth goals. Within Customer Marketing, the Category is a top investment area across POS, Experiential & Customer A&P spend.

As Category Specialist in our European Procurement team, you will help manage procurement projects across all markets in the European region. This includes Great Britain, Ireland, France, Iberia, DACH (Germany, Switzerland & Austria), Italy, Benelux & Nordics, Greece, Poland, Eastern Europe (EE), and Middle East & North Africa (MENA). You will partner with wider Customer Marketing team, both regionally and globally where required across the following initiatives:

• Building Category Market Implementation Plans: Applying strategic procurement excellence, through feeding into the Global Category Strategy and creation of the Europe Category Strategy/Implementation plan. Your plans should consider market insights, deliver excellence benefits, and drive value in line with targets.

• Strategic Execution: Supporting end-to-end execution of category strategies, working with global and other market category professionals in line with strategy.

• Business Partnering: Cultivate and nurture key stakeholder connections internally and externally to help shape investment decisions, drive commercial advantage, minimize risk, and ensure quality of delivery and performance.

• Agency Ecosystem Management: Drive development and optimization of the agency ecosystem for business and brand needs.

• Sourcing Excellence: Spearhead sourcing activities including negotiating with agency partners, implementing workplans, navigating agency selection processes, and contracting.

• Relationship Collaboration Programme (RCP) Leadership: Drive RCP initiatives across relevant areas.

• Driving the Highest Standards of Compliance: Through risk management processes, spend monitoring, segmentation, savings tracking & reporting, contract management, cost modelling/benchmarking.

• Data-Led Decision Making: Utilize key tools and data to generate insights that enable you to objectively challenge established practices to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making.

• Subject Expertise: Develop deep expertise in specific spend categories.

About you

We are looking for a dynamic individual with high levels of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals. You will be required to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment & always aim to find clar