APAC Market Category Manager (Procurement)

Market Category Manager, POS & VAP(APAC)

Join Our APAC Procurement Team!

The Global Procurement function at Diageo plays a key role in fueling growth and value, every day, everywhere.

Our global Marketing Procurement ambition is to be the Gateway to the Agency ecosystem, connecting the Marketing and Commercial teams with the best talent and expertise of the outside world and ensuring seamless integration into the Diageo ways of working. The global Marketing Procurement COE is fundamental to the A&P efficiency agenda, driving growth by eliminating inefficient spend and waste from the system, using insights and commercial expertise to deliver value, managing risk and agency performance and championing Diageo's 2030 goals.

This role forms part of the APAC Marketing Procurement Team and Diageo global category community, instrumental in the development and implementation of our Category Strategy for POS - Point of Sales Materials consisting of Displays, glassware, premiums, prints, textile and logistics. and VAP - Value Added Packaging in APAC. The category is highly complex and influential omnichannel with varying stakeholder needs which require building and managing relationships in a matrixed environment that includes the Diageo One Procurement Community, and the APAC in-market marketing leadership teams. The prime accountability for the role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in this category are executed brilliantly with our agency partners.

This role reports to Market Category Director, Marketing & Indirect APAC

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role will be responsible for:

Own Category Performance through AOP - Annual Operation Plan/Business Reviews/Deployment and Market Initiatives.

• Externally curious and keep supplier market intelligence updated.
• Always challenge the status quo and drive transformation by keeping the supplier base right with capabilities fit for business, the commercial model with transparency and competitiveness, the supplier performance measured.

• Always understand business needs along with the ever-changing business context. Make Category strategies be well catering to the business-needs/context, translated to category performance needs. Ensure presence of procurement support, driving alignment, consensus, and recognition at different levels of stakeholders.

• Being around with the global category community and keep learning and sharing.
• Understand the global strategy under global context and Diageo's business environment, input APAC regional business context and needs, and contribute possible leavers in global category strategy development.

• Collaborate with GBO team in driving user experience, efficient STP (source to payment) cycle.
• Embrace and pioneer new trends such a digitalization in sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management. Etc.

• Promote positive drinking
• Champion inclusion and diversity
• Pioneer grain-to-glass sustainability
• Doing business the right way

• 10+ years with Procurement experience, 5+ years in category management in an FMCG environment or other relevant.
• Categories exposure to marketing categories or other indirect categories.
• Cross market experience with understanding culture difference without bias
• Spirit of change and transformation
• Lead for purpose - Result driven and dada/fact aptitude.
• Comfortable with fast changing environment and ambiguity.
• Optimistic, resilient, and brave while facing fluctuation, frustration and difficulties.
• High integrity