Procurement Specialist - Scottish and Irish Brand Homes

Job Description

Procurement Specialist - Scottish and Irish Brand Homes

Location: Dublin, Edinburgh, London

Contract: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Closing Date: Friday 13th March 2026

The Procurement Specialist role is part of our global community of procurement professionals that are responsible for delivering a significant contribution towards Diageo’s business, productivity and growth goals.

As Category Lead you will join the fantastic Europe Procurement team. You will be responsible for leading across all Marketing and Indirects investment within Irish and Scottish Brand Homes, across the following delivery areas:

Our Brand Homes welcome millions of visitors each year – from the Guinness Storehouse and Roe & Co Distillery in Dublin, to Johnnie Walker Princes Street and our network of whisky distillery experiences across Scotland. Sitting as the Category Specialist within the Europe Procurement team, you will be responsible or overseeing all Marketing and Indirects investment that supports our Irish and Scottish Brand Homes.

Your delivery areas will include:

• Building Category Implementation Plans
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  Applying strategic procurement excellence and creating the Category Strategy/Implementation plan. Your plans should consider market insights, deliver excellence benefits, and drive value in line with targets.

• Strategic Execution
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  Supporting end‑to‑end execution of category strategies, working with global and other market category professionals in line with strategy.

• Business Partnering
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  Cultivate and nurture key stakeholder connections internally and externally to help shape investment decisions, drive commercial advantage, minimise risk, and ensure quality of delivery and performance.

• Agency Ecosystem Management
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  Drive development and optimisation of the agency ecosystem for business and brand needs.

• Sourcing Excellence
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  Spearhead sourcing activities including negotiating with agency partners, implementing workplans, navigating agency selection processes, and contracting.

• Relationship Collaboration Programme (RCP) Leadership
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  Drive RCP initiatives across relevant areas.

• Driving the Highest Standards of Compliance
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  Through risk management processes, spend monitoring, segmentation, savings tracking & reporting, contract management, cost modelling/benchmarking.

• Data‑Led Decision Making
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  Utilize key tools and data to generate insights that enable you to objectively challenge established practices to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision‑making.

• Subject Expertise
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  Develop deep expertise in specific spend categories.

In addition to category deliverables the Specialist will play a key role with the rest of the team to drive us against the wider Procurement Ambition and vision.

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, Project Management, Marketing, Commercial or other relevant role. If you have experience in a sector similar to ours then that would be a bonus.

• You have strong analytical skills, including forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end‑to‑end value. Have commercial acumen, understanding of the business and judgement.

• You can demonstrate consistent performance and examples of executing projects and driving strategic change through influencing stakeholders. You use industry knowledge and research to drive improvements.

• Strong communication skills are a key strength and you have the ability to articulate across all levels of the organisation. Experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies is advantageous.

• Independent thinker with strong leadership & communication skills, able to inspire internal marketing team members and external agency partners.

• Experience in high‑spend negotiations in a Procurement function would be advantageous, however if you are familiar with negotiations on a business or at Marketing level this is…