Europe Marketing Procurement Specialist, Brand Partnerships (Sponsorship, Talent, Culture and E[...]

Overview

Europe Marketing Procurement Specialist, Brand Partnerships (Sponsorship, Talent, Culture and Entertainment). The Europe Marketing Procurement Specialist Procurement Market 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. Within Marketing A&P, the Brand Partnerships category is a top investment area with multiple partnerships across music, sport and talent. As Category Lead in Europe you will join the fantastic Europe Marketing Procurement team. Scope of Europe region includes Great Britain, Ireland, France, Iberia, DACH (Germany, Switzerland & Austria), Italy, Benelux & Nordics, Greece, Poland, Eastern Europe (EE), and Middle East & North Africa (MENA).

Responsibilities

• Building Category Plans: Applying strategic procurement excellence, through feeding into the Global Category Strategy and creation of the Europe Category Strategy/Implementation plan. Plans should consider market insights, deliver excellence benefits, and drive value in line with targets.
• Strategic Execution: Supporting end-to-end execution of category strategies, working with global and other market category professionals in line with strategy.
• Business Partnering: Cultivate and nurture key stakeholder connections internally and externally to help shape investment decisions, drive commercial advantage, minimize risk, and ensure quality of delivery and performance.
• Agency Ecosystem Management: Drive development and optimization of the agency ecosystem for business and brand needs.
• Sourcing Excellence: Spearhead sourcing activities including negotiating with agency partners, implementing workplans, navigating agency selection processes, and contracting.
• Relationship Collaboration Programme (RCP) Leadership: Drive RCP initiatives across relevant areas.
• Driving the Highest Standards of Compliance: Through risk management processes, spend monitoring, segmentation, savings tracking & reporting, contract management, cost modelling/benchmarking.
• Data-Led Decision Making: 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: Develop deep expertise in specific spend categories. In addition to category delivery, the Specialist will play a key role with the rest of the team to drive us against the wider Procurement Ambition and vision.
• Team Collaboration: Work with the broader team to support a dynamic, agile and fast-paced environment.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in a Procurement, Marketing, Project Management, Commercial, Sponsorship role or industry expertise across the brand partnerships category (sports, entertainment, music, culture and talent). Sector experience similar to ours is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, including a forensic understanding of cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value. Commercial savvy with business understanding and judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver projects and drive strategic change through influencing stakeholders. Use of industry knowledge and research to drive improvements.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate across all levels of the organization. Experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies is advantageous.
• Independent thinker with strong leadership and communication skills, able to inspire internal marketing team members and external agency partners.
• Experience in high-spend negotiations in a Procurement function is advantageous; familiarity with negotiations at a business or Marketing level is encouraged.
• Ability to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment, with energy, commitment, and a relentlessness in pursuing goals.

About Diageo and Diversity

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. Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo\’s purpose of \”celebrating life every day everywhere\”. This purpose is inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

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. 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. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world\’s very best people. We\’re looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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. Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• Competitive base salary and bonus scheme
• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Contributory pension scheme
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
• Share options