Job description
Job Description :
Market Category Specialist, Logistics
Location: St James Gate, Edinburgh , Glasgow
Permanent
Closing date: 10/09/2022
As part of our Global Procurement team, you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.
There’s a rich variety of commercial challenges for you to immerse yourself in as part of the procurement team. We want services, partnerships and products that meet our needs today and tomorrow. We have high benchmarks for sustainability. And we want to be the best, in terms of the partnerships we foster and the results we deliver.
So, this is about people as much as numbers. Building relationships internally, so you know what we need; and externally, so you know what can be achieved. Then, you’ll find the right matches for our requirements – and see those deals through.
About this role
Procurement is a key global business function, Source being a fundamental part of our end to end supply chain within Diageo.
Sourcing – the in-market team leads local sourcing as well as supporting the Global procurement teams in strategic Warehousing, on site logistics and transport sourcing.
The role covers Global Brand Supply (GBS) Logistics. Specific responsibilities include:
- Ongoing management of supplier performance, with focus on service and quality continuous improvement
- Delivering value, mitigating and managing inflation, using insights to realise opportunities
- Mitigating risks and building resilience in our supply base
- Partnering and working collaboratively across functions to deliver end to end value for Diageo at pace
- Enabling growth
The category specialist must be an effective business partner to key functions including plan, technical, make
and move. We work across all our business category model; Scotch, European Spirits, Beer and Baileys.
Work in partnership with our Global Procurement team and partner functions to shape the strategic direction
of the category.
You will leverage knowledge and experience across Logistics supply base to find solutions at pace
About you
To be successful in role you will have procurement experience or equivalent role with transferrable skills
You will have the ability to embed sustainable change via improve projects and CI plans
You’ll have the ability to deliver and sustain service and quality performance with a range of challenges on capacity, quality and demand volatility
Experienced at influencing cross functional teams/projects
Skilled communicator with a high level of personal impact enabling the rapid establishment of constructive relationships
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, in itself, 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:
St James Gate
Additional Locations :
Dundas House, Edinburgh Park
Job Posting Start Date :
2022-08-26-07:00
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