Key Account Executive

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 Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and vibrant markets where they can thrive. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year.

We're operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you'll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We'll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realise your fullest potential.

Role Responsibilities

• Achieve sales, revenue, profitability, and market share targets for the assigned customer(s)
• Develop, implement, and monitor annual business plans in collaboration with assigned customers
• Plan and execute promotional activities, campaigns, listings, and shelf management processes
• Regularly analyze sales performance, prepare reports, and develop action plans to drive results
• Lead the negotiation and management of annual commercial agreements and trade terms
• Work cross-functionally with internal departments to ensure customer expectations are met
• Monitor market dynamics, competitor activities, and consumer trends to identify growth opportunities
• Build and maintain strong, sustainable relationships with the customer's head office and regional teams
• Organize and participate in meetings with global teams for customers with global agreements

Experience / skills required

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or Economics (preferred).
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written).
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in Sales within the FMCG sector (preferred in chain stores).
• No travel restrictions.
• Class B driver's license.

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

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 around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Client-provided location(s): Istanbul, Turkey

Job ID: Diageo-JR1122795

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-11T19:03:11