Insights and Planning Manager

Insights and Planning Manager

Who are we?

Our Brands, Australia

While the name Diageo may be unfamiliar to you, our brands have most likely been with you while you create unforgettable moments of connection and celebration. Imagine crafting the future some of the most well-loved spirits brands across the world, including Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Bundaberg Rum and building possibilities within growing brands such as Don Julio, Ciroc, Ello and Aviation Gin. By joining Diageo Australia, you will inspire an exceptional team around you, with offices and teams working from 8 locations across Australia, to build incredible performance and unleash your own potential.

What about the role?

Our Insights & Planning Manager sits as part of our incredible Marketing Transformation team, focused on leading the consumer insights and planning for our iconic brands, including Bundy Rum, Smirnoff and Don Julio. Partnering closely with our broader brand and innovation teams, the role is responsible for uncovering, building and developing key insights to lead our brand teams in the strategic development of brand plans, innovation opportunities and business plans and measurements of success.

Where will you grow in this role?

• Lead partnerships with our Brand teams to expertly build the integral insights required to develop winning brand strategies and execution plans;

• Lead and partner with the Innovation team to build a robust innovation pipeline for our brands ensuring the evolution of our key brand is linked to consumer insights;

• Be the champion of foresights and macro trends within our business, using them to identify and embed future growth opportunities for our business and brands;

• Build Insights capability across the broader marketing team; and

• Manage relationships with key data and insights agencies in order to ensure high levels of effectiveness in our working relationships, leading our Brand Guidance System relationship locally.

What will you bring to the table?

• Experience in insight development and consumer research, ideally from an in-house or potentially agency background;

• Proven experience in generating insights and driving their acceptance through a business to drive growth;

• Leadership experience of internal and external stakeholders to drive accountability and effectiveness; and

• A natural curiosity and engagement in connecting dots between various data sources and building simplicity out of complexity.

What is the culture like?

Are you prepared to take risks in the pursuit of greatness? Do you hold yourself to the highest standards with real accountability for results? Would you treat the business as if it is truly your own - because you want your legacy to be worthy of that of our founders? Then, let's talk!

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. We work in a flexible way to ensure that you can fit work around your life commitments - this may be a different location and/or flexible hours. We are a future focused organisation, that is constantly wanting to perform better and to continue our growth.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity:

Diageo is committed to building a workplace culture that values inclusion and diversity. We actively promote the employment of people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTI and other diversity groups.

Diageo encourages applications from people with disability and will provide reasonable adjustments in our recruitment processes and in the workplace. If you need an adjustment in the recruitment process, please let us know when submitting your application and we will tailor our process where practical.

Client-provided location(s): Sydney, Australia

Job ID: Diageo-JR1118829

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-24T19:03:07