Global Category Specialist, Global Brand Teams

Job Description

Global Category Specialist – Global Brand Teams

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

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.

As the custodians of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year, across 180 markets globally. The commercial challenges here are large, diverse and endlessly captivating. Never more so than in Procurement.

As an organisation, we spend over £5 billion per year. And as the driving force in this expenditure, our Procurement teams make a far-reaching contribution to our business, productivity and growth goals – right across the globe. Premium quality and end-to-end, sustainable value are how we measure our success – across services, partnerships and products. We always want to be the best and, along with engaging the best talent to work with the best products, this is how we attempt to do it.

Ultimately, this is about people as much as numbers.

We build great relationships internally and externally, so we understand our needs and how to meet them. Every time. Join us in Procurement and, if you’re driven, resilient and share our pioneering spirit, there’s a world of opportunity here for you.

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…