Procurement Category Specialist, Indirects

Job Title: Procurement Category Specialist, Indirects

Contract: Permanent

Location: London / Edinburgh / Glasgow / Dublin / Madrid / Amsterdam / Hamburg / Turin / Paris / Budapest

Closing date: 3rd November

About the team

As part of our Europe Procurement team you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.

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 we want to be the best, in terms of the partnerships we foster and the results we deliver.

Diageo Europe includes the market clusters of Great Britain, Ireland, DACH, Benelux & Nordics, Poland, France, Greece, Iberia, Italy, MENA and Eastern Europe, as well as our Corporate and Global Brand Supply Indirects spend within geographical Europe.

About the role

The Europe Indirects procurement team is responsible for the management of circa $450m spend across the categories of Real Estate & Facilities Management, HR Services, Travel, Professional Services and outsourced services.

This particular role will be responsible for the HR Services category including talent, learning & development, payroll, outplacement, & relocation.

This role is about people as much as numbers. Building relationships internally, so you know what we need; and externally, so you know what can be achieved. Then, you'll find the right matches for our requirements - and see those deals through.

In this role you will be responsible to:

• Deliver financial and non-financial targets
• Deploy Europe/Global category strategies
• Deliver excellence through sourcing, demand management, supplier relationship management, supplier development and supplier innovation.
• Lead and implement ongoing supplier performance through the setting of rigorous performance KPI's and SLA's and through the application of a robust supplier review mechanism.
• Key collaboration with stakeholders ensuring full engagement
• Promote the highest standards of compliance consistency

Experience, skills and capabilities required

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Significant indirects procurement experience, preferably with experience in HR related categories
• Strong analytical skills including data interpretation to enable development and implementation of category strategies
• Ability to find opportunities, identify and balance risks and benefits and take action to deliver the most beneficial outcome for the business
• Forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value.
• Ability to identify and problem solve independently
• Commercial competence, understanding of the business and judgment
• Ability to work in an agile, fast moving environment and ability to keep up with pace of change and prioritise according to business needs.
• Strong communication and influencing skills with stakeholders
• Objectively challenge established practice to stimulate alternative thinking
• Degree educated or equivalent relevant work experience
• Fluent in English. Fluent in other European language is a benefit.

Working with us

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!

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Client-provided location(s): Glasgow, United Kingdom, Dublin, Ireland, Paris, France, Madrid, Spain, Budapest, Hungary, Hamburg, Germany, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Job ID: Diageo-JR1119018

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-17T19:00:35