Procurement Specialist - Indirects

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.

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• IT

• Applying strategic procurement excellence, by leading execution of and defining Market-specific category strategies built on Diageo's best methods, standards and tools to deliver procurement value for Diageo.
• Coordinating end-to-end execution of category strategies ensuring that Market are aligned and working in line with strategy do deliver productivity and value expected
• Serving as Market subject-matter expert for specific spend categories, ensuring collection and leverage of supply market expertise and close engagement with stakeholders for value-adding procurement

• Strategy execution: Take accountability for end to end execution of Indirects categories strategies, track and monitor progress and keep aligned with global strategy making the right adjustments that can comes from the implemented process, that will improve the results in alignment with business leads. Ensure close collaboration of teams aligned behind strategies and resolve Market-wide escalations. This strategic implementation needs to be reflected in the different KPIs of the Tequila business and LAC, such as Productivity, Cash, Innovation & Development, and Carbon Reduction.
• Enhanced Market Performance: Achieve measurable improvements in service levels, cost efficiencies, and market growth through effective procurement strategies executions.
• End to end category excellence: Take Market-wide ownership for maximizing procurement value for Diageo from Indirects categories, including application of best in class market knowledge, stakeholder engagement, global community support in Market, tools & techniques. Provide clear to global category leads markets needs
• Partnership with Global Category leads with market sourcing activities through provision of best practices, Market data and information, feedback from execution and lessons learned. Aligned with strategic objectives.
• Business partnering. Develop and grow relationships with stakeholders, partners and suppliers for deeper insights into needs and capabilities; establish a position to advise on how to gain greater value from close engagement with Procurement. Bring global capability to the Market.
• Mitigate strategic risks. As part of category strategy development and execution, identify and design mitigations for potential risks, in line with Diageo risk and governance standards.
• Mitigate sourcing risks. Identify corporate, supply, supplier and other risks associated with sourcing activities and put mitigations in place, engaging all relevant stakeholders, partners and suppliers to ensure the mitigations are successful.
• Supplier relationship. Establish standards, ways of working and trust relationships with suppliers in relevant categories across Markets; ensure Diageo best practices are applied and that there is a good foundation for strong performance, risk mitigation and rapid resolution of issues. Elevating to strategic levels implementing Top to Top sessions and alignment.
• Supplier performance. In collaboration with GCMs and contract leads, set KPIs, driving consistency across suppliers and markets, improving the value of data generated and applied and resolving chronic supplier performance issues. Direct which supplier issues should be addressed by the Procurement team and which by other parts of Diageo, for best results.
• Supplier development. In line with Procurement key supplier strategies, collaborate with suppliers to unlock breakthrough opportunities for the business; stimulate supplier capabilities to generate ideas for the future.

• Previous experience in Procurement ( 5 years ) and Supply Chain (Plan, make, source, deliver).
• Minimum 2 years experience in Procurement Indirects, FMCG/Spirits, with subject-matter expertise in supply markets and spend categories relevant to the role
• Demonstrated performance in leading projects and teams, managing and negotiating with suppliers and experience developing and executing category and procurement strategies
• Languages: Portugues, Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
• Strong analytical and financial awareness including a comprehensive understanding of AOP requirements and financial goals & value drivers relevant to the categories in scope
• Senior or middle manager or senior specialist role experience with track record influencing and managing senior stakeholders and budget holders and driving cross-border teams
• Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written and presentation; strong interpersonal skills

• Not afraid to challenge the status quo, challenge complacency, develop ambitious plans and bring clarity to others.
• Drives collaboration in reaching a common understanding of the future, leading change management as a natural business partner, enrolling stakeholders.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop long-term strategies that align with organizational goals. Restless in creatively thinking outside of the box and taking thoughtful risks, always working to bring others with you. Amplifies Diageo's purpose.
• Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis tools, financials analysis, E2E (End-to-End) supply chain management analytics and optimizing inventory levels.
• Negotiation Skills: Strong negotiation skills for securing favorable terms with suppliers.
• Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written and presentation; strong interpersonal skills
• Experience leading strategic partners and digital transformation.