Category Manager Content Creation & Media

Category Manager Content Creation & Media

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 the role

This role is a critical member of the European Procurement Leadership Team and is accountable for working across multiple markets and functions including Marketing, Commercial and Finance to deliver core business outcomes and strategy aligned to our Procurement and Marketing business strategies. This includes optimising our Development investment and delivering effective and efficient scale reach investment across Media, Sponsorship and Influencer. Our European organisation includes the Market clusters of GB, Ireland, Central and Eastern Europe, DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Italy, France, Greece, Iberia and MENA (Middle East North Africa).

In this role you will also lead a team of European Category Specialists across Media, Brand Partnerships, Data and Insight, Content Creation and Production and oversee our Marketing and Indirect investment across both Scottish and Irish Brand Homes (homes of our most iconic brands).

Top Accountabilities:

• Managing the marketing procurement scope through brilliant execution including sourcing and supplier relationship management and development

• Delivering financial and non-financial targets across Diageo's total balanced scorecard.

• Driving an optimised shape of Diageo's A&P to maximise growth and performance by reducing areas of inefficient and ineffective spend using investment insights, data, and strategy

• Effectively partnering with business stakeholders across Europe markets (Marketing, Procurement, Sales, Finance, Sustainability, Legal, etc) to drive transformation and value in line with Diageo's performance ambition

• Driving end-to-end execution of category strategies, ensuring that business partners are aligned and working in line with strategy.

• Driving and supporting standard methodologies and innovative models for sourcing, cost models, benchmarking, SRM/SPM and e-sourcing - working closely with Global Procurement and other in-market Procurement teams.

• Partnering with Global Procurement Category teams on relevant market insights, input and builds for all category strategy and benchmarking work.

• Leading local market sourcing and supporting global sourcing and supplier relationship management activity across Marketing categories

• Leading external agency partnerships effectively, leading pitch processes, agency negotiations, and agency collaboration plans to enhance commercial value, minimize risk, and assure quality of delivery and performance.

• Degree educated or equivalent relevant work experience

• Fluent in English

• Procurement or Commercial experience in an FMCG environment. Proven experience in key procurement skills including, strategy development, negotiations (Complex / multi-country negotiations), 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 the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value.

• Strong commercial competence, understanding of the business and judgment.

• Ability to work in an agile, fast moving and ambiguous environment and ability to keep up with pace of change and prioritize according to business needs.

• Strong communication and influencing skills and personal impact to gain credibility quickly with senior team members and generate followership

• Experience of making tough decisions and prioritizing delivery in a complex and difficult environment.

• Practiced in objectively challenges to stimulate alternative thinking.

• Strong leadership, coaching and inter-personal skills with team performance management experience

• Excellent communication skills with sound commercial awareness and the ability to contribute to the wider business process outside immediate functional responsibilities.

• Good influencing skills and personal impact to gain credibility quickly with senior team members

• Authenticity, the ability to create possibilities, consistently deliver great performance and connect to Diageo Purpose.

• Ability to hold multiple perspectives and show mental agility in approaching problems.

• Display high levels of energy and commitment; is relentless is the pursuit of their goals.

• Ability to work within a constantly changing environment

• Bring clarity and leadership to an ambiguous situation to enable progress

• Manage people for success.