Market Category Manager, Indirects, Europe
Locations: London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Madrid
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
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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.
About The Function
As part of our Global Procurement team you’ll play a pivotal role in contributing to performance and building and protecting Diageo’s reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end‑to‑end value across the supply chain through commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda.
There’s a rich variety of commercial challenges for you to immerse yourself in as part of the procurement team. We want services, partnerships and products that meet our needs today and tomorrow. We have high benchmarks for sustainability and want to be the best in terms of the partnerships we foster and the results we deliver.
About This Role
The Diageo Europe Indirects Procurement team has always been a significant contributor towards Diageo’s productivity and growth goals and is considered a trusted and respected partner internally and externally.
Most recently, the total Europe Procurement Team reviewed its ambition for the next 2–3 years and has a clear strategy to exponentially increase the value it brings to Diageo, and, importantly, how that value is realized.
The new strategic priorities are next‑generation investment optimization, continued network building, a step change in stakeholder sufficiency, enhanced digitalisation opportunities, and accelerating ESG ambition.
The Category Manager for Indirects Europe is a critical leadership role within the Europe Procurement Leadership Team and will also play a business‑partnering role with key European executive members.
The Indirects category scope includes Facilities and Real Estate, Fleet, HR, outsourced services to enable our Route to Customer/Consumer model, Legal, CR and Consultancy.
The spend of direct influence for this role is ca. $450m and, in addition to delivering the strategic priorities, this role also has accountability for delivering financial and non‑financial targets for this spend through global and Europe category strategies.
Core Activities / Deliverables
* Manage the total Indirects procurement scope through brilliant execution, including sourcing and supplier relationship management and development
* Manage and develop a direct team of category specialists
* Deliver financial and non‑financial critical metrics
* Own the annual planning cycle for Europe Indirects as part of the overall global process
* Drive and support best practice and innovative models for sourcing, cost models, benchmarking, SRM/SPM and e‑sourcing – working closely with Global Procurement and other in‑market teams
* Lead and support the DSC roll‑out in Europe, including embedding Fairmarkit and supporting integrated ecosystem improvements
* Partner with Global Procurement Category teams on market insights, input and builds for all category strategy and benchmarking work
* Lead local market sourcing and support global sourcing and supplier relationship management activities across Indirects categories
* Ultimately accountable for key external suppliers/agencies in the defined categories to improve commercial advantage, minimise risk and assure quality of delivery and performance
* Lead procurement productivity agenda, identifying and implementing transformational behavioural changes beyond immediate functional responsibilities
About You
* Procurement, Commercial or Consultancy experience in an FMCG environment
* Proven experience in strategy development, negotiations (complex/multi‑country), analysis (cost drivers), forecasting and benchmarking, ideally in a Marketing Procurement context
* Strong knowledge of financial drivers to shape procurement strategies; proven experience in taking informed, calculated risks to achieve substantial strategic gains
* Strong analytical skills; forensic understanding of cost drivers to target and influence costs through end‑to‑end value
* Ability to work in an agile, fast‑moving and ambiguous environment; keep up with pace of change and prioritise according to business needs
* Strong communication and influencing skills with personal impact to gain credibility quickly with senior stakeholders and generate followership
Working with Us
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.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere, and to create an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued and can belong.
We embrace diversity in the broadest sense, welcoming and celebrating who you are. You’ll be part of and help build a culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, and outlooks.
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 worldwide.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.
Worker Type: Regular
Primary Location: 1HQ
Additional Locations: Amsterdam, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, St James Gate
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