Job Description

: Who are we? Diageo Australia has one simple, but focused mission – to Celebrate Life, Every Day, Everywhere. In order to do this, we are supported by our incredible portfolio of market leading brands, some of which are in your home now. As the largest spirits manufacturer in the world, with brands including Johnnie Walker®, Smirnoff®, Gordon’s®, Baileys®, Captain Morgan® and our homegrown heroes Bundaberg Rum® and UDL®, we are focused on bringing consumers together, giving them opportunities to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. What about the role? As the Market Category Manager for the A&P Marketing category for the South East Asia Region, you will join our incredible APAC Marketing Procurement team, with ownership in the development and ownership of the A&P Category Strategy for Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, driving deep business partnership with the marketing team to build joint value creation in order deliver their strategic commercial growth objectives while ensuring our business remains commercially competitive and our Advertising remains World Class. As the Category Manager for one of our largest categories, you will build strong cross-cultural relationships with key marketing partners to optimise our A&P investment across the region. Where will you grow in this role?

• Develop and implement the long-term category strategy in alignment with the appropriate partners;
• Drive BAU category management aspects such as sourcing, contract management, risk management, and supplier performance and collaboration management;
• Grow and lead supplier relationship management activities with strategic suppliers;
• Lead the onboarding and the successful transition markets to a newly appointed POS supplier in F23;
• Collaborate with Market leads and key partners to understand market demand, objectives, priorities, challenges and opportunities; and
• Deliver financial and non-financial objectives which include risk and governance and our Society 2030 ambitions.

What will you bring to the table?

• An experienced Procurement Category Manager that has a positive and collaborative mentality, with the gravitas and leadership capability to establish and build senior internal and external collaborator relationships and lead best in class category management execution;
• Can do broad critical thinking as well as detailed hands-on execution;
• Highly resilient and energized by challenges and white spaces;
• A positive change agent that thrives in ambiguity and matrixed environments;
• Highly organized multi-tasker that is skilled at prioritization and delivering through others when appropriate;
• Clear communicator and able to articulate a vision;
• Objectives focused and hold yourself accountable to deliver at a very high standard, delivering on promises and commitments; and
• Dedicated and able to work with autonomy requiring only light-touch senior support.

What is the culture like? Are you prepared to take risks in the pursuit of greatness? Do you hold yourself to the highest standards with real accountability for results? Would you treat the business as if it is truly your own – because you want your legacy to be worthy of that of our founders? Then, let’s talk! We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. We work in a flexible way to ensure that you can fit work around your life commitments – this may be a different location and/or flexible hours. We are a future focused organisation, that is constantly wanting to perform better and to continue our growth. Our commitment to inclusion and diversity: Diageo is committed to building a workplace culture that values inclusion and diversity. We actively promote the employment of people with disability, LGBTI and other diversity groups. Diageo encourages applications from people with disability and will provide reasonable adjustments in our recruitment processes and in the workplace. If you need an adjustment in the recruitment process, please let us know when submitting your application and we will tailor our process where practical. At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture. In order to ensure we’re supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 15th July 2022. Worker Type : Regular Primary Location: George Street Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date : 2022-06-27-07:00