Job Description :

　　Global Category Manager, Talent, Influencer, Partnerships and Sponsorship

　　Location: London, UK

　　6 Month Full Time Contract

　　Closing date: November 15, 2023

　　About the Role

　　As the Global Category Manager, you will join the fantastic Global Marketing Procurement team responsible for setting the procurement strategy in how we work with partners to deliver optimized relationships within our talent, influencer partnership and sponsorship marketing activities. This role will work alongside our culture and sponsorship marketing teams as well as our local procurement category teams but also interact with other multiple touch points within our business.

　　Diageo see talent, influencer, partnership and sponsorships as critical to helping us drive scaled reach of our brand such as Guinness and Jonnie Walker as well as making sure they are in the center of the consumers cultural experience.

　　You will be responsible for setting the strategy on how we procure these services to meet the needs of the business and brands and then working with the stakeholder group and local procurement teams to execute this strategy. You will be seen as the subject matter expert for the category through the setting of these strategy, leading negotiations where relevant and managing relationships.

　　This role is part of Diageo’s Global Procurement structure, as an above-market resource focused on developing world class category strategies as well as leading global and in market execution and performance management.

　　As part of the wider Global Procurement team you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to your own category 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.

　　About You

　　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.

　　So, this is about people as much as numbers. Building relationships internally, so you know what we need; and externally, to enable you to bring to us solutions on what is possible and industry leading.

　　You will be responsible for:

　　Create the Category Strategy for Talent, Influencer, Partnerships and Sponsorships, ensuring that plans consider market insights, deliver excellence benefits and drives value in line with targets.Leading sourcing activities, cost modelling, contract management, supplier relationship management, supplier innovation and supplier development activity using best in class processes and ways of working.Build credible sustainable relationships with agencies and partners to drive opportunity identification in line with business goals.Establish improved ways of working, tools, data and insights to embed a cost consciousness culture that supports the optimization of the Diageo A&P.Driving category excellence through execution of improve projects in line with the categories strategic objectives.Delivery of our Society 2030 ambition.Partnering with team members across strategic business areas; Customer Operation, Innovation, Finance, Legal and Supply, ensuring full engagement to improve commercial advantage, minimize risk and assuring quality of delivery and performance.

　　To be successful in this role you will need:

　　We are looking for a dynamic individual with the ability to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment while finding clarity in ambiguous situations by stimulating alternative thinking. We want you to show high levels of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals.

　　Experience in a Procurement, finance, Marketing or other relevant role is required as we would expect you to hit the ground running in this role.You will have strong analytical skills, including forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value. Have commercial skill, understanding of the business and judgment.You can demonstrate consistent performance and examples of drivig strategy, but also seeing it through to implementation. You need to bring industry knowledge and research to drive data led improvements and as such good knowledge and understanding of brand partnership landscape would be necessary.Strong communication skills are a key strength, and you have the ability to articulate across all levels of the organization.Experience in high-spend negotiations in commercial / marketing context is necessary good knowledge and understanding of brand partnership landscape would be advantageous but not essential.

　　Working with Us

　　Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

　　Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

　　Competitive base salary and bonus scheme Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activitiesContributary pension schemeComprehensive health insuranceShare options

　　Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

　　We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

　　Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

　　We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

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

　　Worker Type :

　　Regular

　　Primary Location:

　　1HQ

　　Additional Locations :

　　Job Posting Start Date :

　　2023-11-01