Job Description

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About Us

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we\xe2\x80\x99re the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 27,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you\xe2\x80\x99ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you\xe2\x80\x99ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people\'s individual passions, commitments and specialist skills. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard, and you\xe2\x80\x99ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we\xe2\x80\x99ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

About the Function

The Global Procurement function at Diageo plays a key role in fueling growth and value, every day everywhere.

Globally, Diageo invests \xc2\xa32.4 billion of A&P into our brands to drive long-term brand building and short-term sales conversion. The global Marketing Procurement ambition is to be the Gateway to the Agency Ecosystem, connecting the Marketing and Commercial teams with the best talent and expertise of the outside world, and ensuring that when the outside comes in, it works. The global Marketing Procurement COE is fundamental to the marketing productivity agenda, driving growth by eliminating inefficient spend and waste from the system, using insights and commercial expertise to deliver value, managing risk and agency performance and championing Diageo\xe2\x80\x99s 2030 goals.

About the Role (8 Months Contract)

This role forms part of the APAC Marketing COE and is responsible for supporting the APAC A&P Category Strategies and deliverables across the markets- SEA, AUS, North Asia, and GC. A&P is a critical investment in fueling commercial growth in the region, driving both operating margin improvement and competitive advantage for Diageo. This is an individual contributor role which reports into the Market Category Director- Marketing & Indirect APAC. This will be an 8-month paternity cover.

This role is accountable for execution across the A&P categories in APAC, working closely with the APAC Marketing Category team on the delivery of strategy and sourcing, as well as driving and coordinating supplier performance in conjunction with Marketing.

Additional to the Marketing category remit, this role is primarily responsible for business partnering with the leadership team to ensure market focus on financial and non-financial KPIs performance, representing procurement at the BPM forums with oversight for the coordination of team updates and inputs into projects, shaping the local business agenda.

This role will also a have a role to play in accelerating our progress with Suppliers in respect to Diageo\xe2\x80\x99s Society 2030 goals. i.e., Grain to Glass sustainability, championing inclusion and diversity, as well as promoting positive drinking.

The categories are broad and complex with varying stakeholder needs and market challenges. This requires building and managing relationships in a matrixed environment that includes the Diageo One Procurement Community, the broader APAC Procurement Team and the various market Marketing & Commercial teams. The successful Market Category Manager in this position is expected to form strong partnerships with key market stakeholders to enable the implementation of category excellence within the procurement governance framework.

The core activities/deliverables of this role are:

Business Engagement with marketing team across APAC to collect and translate business needs to category performance needs. Make sure category strategy in line with business priorities.

Lead a team that consists of 4 market category managers to delivery financial & non-financial KPIs. Ensure market driven category strategy for Data & Insight, Sponsorship & Partnership in place and initiatives been taken.

Work closely with Procurement Operations to drive user satisfaction and sourcing efficiency via continuous content development.

Lead VAP (Value Added Packaging) Category including category strategy development/Supplier performance management.

Qualifications & Experience required:

10+ years with marketing categories in FMCG industry

5+years\' experience of people management experience

Stakeholder engagement skills. Esp. with Senior Commercial Leaders.

Diversity Statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo\xe2\x80\x99s purpose of \xe2\x80\x9ccelebrating life every day everywhere\xe2\x80\x9d. 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.

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\xe2\x80\x99t let anything stop you from applying.

Worker Type : Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location: Ocean Financial Centre

Additional Locations : Shanghai

Job Posting Start Date : 2023-10-30

Diageo