Procurement Strategy, Ops & Excellence is an integral part of Diageo’s Supply Chain & Procurement. Our Procurement Strategy is enabled by a focus on our people and capabilities, systems, processes and tools, relationship management, Inclusion & Diversity, and Innovation.
Diageo Global Procurement is accountable for the Procurement of Supply, Marketing, and Indirect categories with an annual spend of circa £7bn. Procurement’s vision is to be the “the most trusted and respected business partner, fuelling growth and value everyday everywhere”
Diageo’s Procurement function is structured to take advantage of our global scale through a model based on Globally led Category Procurement and Market led Procurement teams. We operate a strong collaboration model between our market and global category teams, where we work together as One Procurement Community. Our model enables a strategy development for defined categories, with the aim to have 80% of spend across Supply, Demand and Indirect categories controlled globally
Reporting to the Global Head of Supplier Partnership & Diversity, the Global Specialist Supplier Diversity is responsible for supporting the implementation and the expansion of the Value Chain Inclusion & Diversity framework to diversify our supply chain and advance sustainable economic impact in the diverse communities where we source.
The focus of this role is:
Program management:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain the Value Chain Inclusion & Diversity program
- Define plan, activities, risks, interdependencies, communication, governance
- Coordination of the program with multiple partners internally and externally
Change Management:
- Develop, enhance, maintain and embed an inclusive Procurement into the culture of the business, so that is becomes an integral part of the business-as-usual way of working.
- Assess situation, analyse risks, design tactics, implement activities and measure progress
Data & Technology coordination:
- Coordination of data work for audits, reporting, tier 2+ programs, customers supplier diversity, etc.
- Support building and deploying the KPI framework to measure performance; evolution from spend based program to impact on communities, brands, and profit.
- Coordination of supplier diversity technologies, enhancements, and improvements
Supplier Diversity ecosystem management support:
- Internal relevant stakeholder management, advocacy groups, diverse suppliers, relevant peer groups
Robust benchmark to gain new insights and bring them into the program:
- Internal and external
- Performance (quantitative) and practice (qualitative)
Support Developing and implementing supplier’s development programs and activities
- Working with advocacy organizations, start-ups, academia, suppliers, peer companies and internal & external stakeholders.
About you
To be successful in role you will have experience in Procurement, Innovation, or other relevant roles.
- Data and technology knowledge: well informed about current and future technology solutions and can make recommendations. Understand the importance of data driven decisions and can develop practical data insights.
- Critical thinking: problem-solver: Finds creative solutions to problems and challenges, often while working within constraints. Understand biases. Listens and understand business partners to provide fit for purpose solutions
- Communication: storytelling, asking the right questions, synthesizing messages, active listening
- Experience in navigating complex business structures and multiple cultures & dynamics
- Curious: Objectively challenges established practice to stimulate alternative thinking. Understands the big picture, explores trends and implications to see things differently
- Flexible: quick to adapt approach as the broader context around them changes.
- Resilient: Operates well outside their comfort zone and experiments with untested and unproven ideas
Working with Us
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
- Contributary pension scheme
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
- Share options
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 and to reflect our broad consumer base. 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.
Worker Type :Regular
Primary Location:Madrid
Additional Locations :1HQ, Amsterdam, Bangalore HO, Edinburgh Park, Nairobi HQ
Job Posting Start Date : 2023-07-28
