Procurement Manager

4 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Diageo Full time

From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of ambitious possibilities. From our iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Don Julio, to our local homegrown heroes Bundaberg Rum, UDL and Reeftip, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of ambitious, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating.

What will your role be?

Are you seeking next challenge outside of comfort zone? We might have a pivotal career opportunity for you - we are looking for an individual with media agency or corporate performance media background to join our regional procurement role.

Our 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 seamless integration into the Diageo ways of working. 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’s Society 2030 goals.

This role forms part of the APAC Marketing Procurement Team and is instrumental in the development and implementation of our Media Category Strategy for APAC. The category is complex with varying stakeholder needs which require building and managing relationships in a matrixed environment that includes the Diageo One Procurement Community, the global marketing function and the APAC in-market marketing leadership teams. The prime accountability for the role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in this category are executed brilliantly with our agency partners.

This category is complex, with varying stakeholder needs, and engaging senior stakeholders (which includes Managing Directors, Marketing Directors, Finance Directors). The prime accountability for the role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in this category are executed brilliantly with our agency partners. This role will lead sourcing decisions with key stakeholders and will support the maximisation of value as well as ROI, whilst minimising risk, from all external spend - assuring quality of delivery and performance.

The marketing category is additionally going through a period of transformation.  Digital media is growing in importance, with data and technology becoming strategically more integrated in our planning and creative decision making. The role will play a key part in developing and driving the Diageo Future Media transformation for APAC, going from media client to media leader, and transitioning to new agency ways of working and development of a strategic agency partnership.

What does this role look like for you?

  • Develop close partnerships with key stakeholders in the APAC region.
  • Connect with global category leaders, keeping them informed about APAC market’s nuances and downloading global view and expertise.
  • Manage Agency’s performance though structured governance framework in various levels such as strategy alignment in the top as well as the operational level in each market.
  • Drive BAU (business as usual) category management aspects such as such as RFX (Request for quotation/proposal), contract management, risk management, supplier performance management.
  • Deliver financial and non-financial KPI’s which include risk and governance, societal and sustainability targets (Diageo’s Society of Progress 2030 ambition)
  • Promote the highest standards of ethics and compliance consistently, displaying the Diageo Leadership Standards

What will you bring to the table?

  • 5 years+ Procurement, Marketing experience in an FMCG environment or Media agency experience.
  • Experience in CRM, Content Platform and other AI enabled Digital Marketing Experience would be preferred.
  • Categories exposure in marketing – creative agencies, media, digital, relationship marketing, social media, events/experiential, PR, sponsorship, POS, etc
  • Regional or Global experience, working with multiple markets or regions would be highly preferred.
  • Technical aptitude or expertise to be able to run RFPs to assess and finalize on the vendor solutions such as in the area of AI capabilities for chatbot, mar-tech solutions to extend our consumer engagement capabilities or measurement of marketing effectiveness.
  • Able to work effectively across remote cross-functional teams, and to influence and build relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders virtually.
  • Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written and presentation; strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence a senior audience.
  • Resilient and able to work in an agile, fast-moving environment and to keep up with pace of change and prioritize according to business needs.
  • Demonstrated performance in leading projects and teams, managing and negotiating with suppliers and experience developing and executing category and procurement strategies.

What are the benefits?

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this.  At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.

You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity:

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’t let anything stop you from applying.

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 25th May 2024.


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