Global Category Specialist, Global Brand Teams

Job Description

Global Category Specialist – Global Brand Teams

Location: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York or Amsterdam

Job Type: Permanent

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. Join us and you’ll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll build brands consumers love. We value each other and celebrate different perspectives.

In our inclusive culture, you’ll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people.

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

This role is incredibly exciting, as you will drive our Global Marketing Procurement strategic objectives and empower our Global Brand Teams (GBTs) with delivery of their critical brand ambitions through exceptional business partnerships across all A&P categories. As part of this role, you will manage sophisticated, multi‑brand A&P portfolios, across multiple locations and time zones with consistency, pace, and with commercial and strategic leadership.

Passionate about shaping the future of global marketing procurement and enabling the growth of our Global Brand Teams? Excited to partner with brand teams to deliver key business ambitions through our Conscious Create Teams (CCTs) and Agile Brand Communities (ABCs)? Energised by innovation and eager to bring fresh thinking and smarter solutions across our marketing categories? Motivated to maximise A&P spend and ensure our brands invest in the most effective, growth‑driving ways?

Fluent in digital procurement tools, workflow systems, and AI‑enabled productivity platforms—and experienced in piloting and driving adoption of new technologies? Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

• Build influential relationships across the Global Brand Teams, shaping strategic and investment decisions and enabling delivery through CCTs and ABCs. Position Procurement as a trusted, long‑term strategic partner in the GBT landscape.
• Architect and optimise the GBTs’ integrated agency ecosystem, ensuring the right capabilities are aligned to brand ambitions. Lead brand ecosystem design to support wider global marketing transformation initiatives.
• Lead the RCP across specific brands with the ongoing two‑way flow of insights into global marketing procurement category teams strengthen global partner strategies and long‑term agency relationships.
• Drive best‑in‑class sourcing across critical spend categories—for brands by leading negotiations, shaping strategic plans, managing agency selection processes, and ensuring robust contracting that delivers value and impact for Diageo.
• Partner with global category teams to co‑create and activate category strategies, ensuring seamless end‑to‑end execution that advances GBT and business priorities.
• Accelerate the adoption of digital procurement tools, workflow technologies, and AI‑enabled productivity platforms. Act as a digital ambassador, collaborating with cross‑functional digital and technology teams to enhance ways of working.
• Work collaboratively across the procurement team to ensure delivery against all work streams and interdependencies, supporting both day‑to‑day priorities and high‑impact strategic projects.
• Contribute to strategic development within Global CoEs, ensuring market realities, local nuances, and GBT‑specific needs are fully reflected in global approaches.
• Uphold the highest standards of compliance through rigorous risk management, spend monitoring, segmentation, savings tracking, performance reporting, and best‑practice…