Global Procurement Category Specialist, Flavors, Sugar, Enzymes

Job Description :

Job Title: Global Category Specialist, Flavors, Sugar, Enzymes

Permanent

Closing date: 8th February

Location: hybrid working from either London, Edinburgh, Dublin or Plainfield

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximising the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.

Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030:
Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.

Deliver Procurement outcomes for Diageo within one or more categories of spend, through effective business partnering and collaboration across Procurement CoEs. This includes (but is not limited to):

• Applying strategic procurement excellence through creation of or support in creation of category strategies built on Diageo’s best methods, standards, and tools to deliver procurement value.

• Leading or supporting Sourcing activities for specific categories of spend procured Globally.

• Developing subject-matter expertise for specific spend categories, supporting collection and leverage of supply market expertise and clear direction to Analysts for development and application of supply market data and information to strategy development and sourcing.

The Global Category Specialist is accountable for driving and active participation in a global community of procurement professionals in one or more spend categories, including joining regular meetings, driving alignment around strategy, supporting development of own and others’ capabilities & expertise and sharing of best practices.

• Applied expertise. Build, manage and grow expertise in one or more spend categories, including understanding of supply markets, suppliers, partners and how to negotiate supply and demand. Become a subject-matter expert and share with others in a global community of category professionals. Apply expertise and standards to identify and win new value for Diageo.

• Category excellence. Lead development of best-in‑class market intelligence and knowledge, category strategies and sourcing events by applying Diageo standards for category excellence. Contribute to improvement of existing and development of new tools & techniques.

• Business partnering. Develop and grow relationships with stakeholders, partners, and suppliers for deeper insights into needs and capabilities; articulate requirements and deliver insights for greater value from stakeholder collaboration.

• Strategy development. For one or more spend categories, support development and evolution of category strategies by (1) capturing, articulating, and confirming business requirements; (2) researching and analysing market dynamics; and (3) assessing opportunities and proposing solutions.

• Best in class capabilities. Generate insights and opportunities from internal and external benchmarking, develop cost models to consider scenarios with suppliers and partners and build & evolve analytics capabilities that allow regular review and improvement of strategies.

• Sourcing. Implement sourcing activities for Global and above‑market leverage spend categories. Engage community members as required, apply Diageo Procurement protocol standard.

• Contracting. For relevant sourcing projects, ensure effective…