Category Specialist

3 weeks ago

Greater London, United Kingdom Diageo Full time

CapEX Category Specialist

12 Month Fixed Term Contract



Join our Procurement Team

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 fascinating. 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.


Purpose of the Role

Within category teams, implement the AOP program. Manage projects risks, deliver planed savings, identify and deliver additional opportunities.

  • Support the category leads in strategy refresh – performance and spend insights.
  • Lead or support the execution on key strategic projects. Focus will be on large Capital projects, Utilities CapEx but also opportunity for involvement across all spend areas including CapEx and MRO and utilities.
  • Support risk management activities, market risk assessments.
  • Work in collaboration with in-market teams - sharing supplier performance data; building supplier improvement plans.
  • Project delivery – on time, to budget (including savings delivery), to specification.
  • SPM program lead for sub-category key suppliers​.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body, e.g. CIPS
  • Several years experience in CapEx Procurement
  • Strong analytical and financial awareness including a strong understanding of financial goals & value drivers
  • Need to be technically literate with proven record of using systems successfully
  • Strong verbal, written and presentation; strong interpersonal skills
  • Proven track record of consistent performance and delivery
  • Strong track record of category management, sourcing & relationship management
  • Ability to engage and collaborate with technical teams
  • Ability to work with in-market teams colleagues to share insights and good practice
  • Ability to complete Pan-regional and global sourcing exercises with multiple business partners. Analyse, recommend and secure business alignment.
  • Ability to work with regional teams in the execution of sourcing recommendation and ongoing supplier performance management.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

General

  • Applied expertise. Work with internal partners (Procurement and business) to ensure RFP’s focus on key business and commercial outcomes.
  • Category excellence. Strong understanding of category and sourcing outcomes. Lead development of best in class market data 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.

Category strategy Sourcing delivery

  • Business partnering. Work with business partners to ensure sourcing exercises delivery required outcomes whilst managing all risks and assuring program value is achieved.
  • Business partnering. In close alignment with category managers, 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 partner collaboration.
  • 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. Learning shared and adopted into practice across Procurement team.
  • Strategy development. Support the 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.

Sourcing

  • Develop and implement sourcing strategies to support the transition to net zero / Spirt of Progress (SoP) 2030 targets.
  • For relevant sourcing projects, support effective planning, preparation and application of the Negotiation Toolkit. Support category managers in negotiating and closing contracts. Manage contracts and contract compliance through contract lifecycles.

Risk management

  • Mitigate risks. Support risk management activities with data inputs.
  • Apply and improve tools & techniques. Apply Procurement best practice standard, ensuring the most recent and relevant approaches are always applied.

Supplier relationship management

  • Supplier relationship. Utilise supplier relationship management frameworks to assess supplier performance, highlight areas for improvement and build action plans with suppliers.
  • Supplier development. Develop supply base to support SoP 2030 targets. In line with Procurement strategic supplier strategies, collaborate with suppliers to unlock breakthrough opportunities for the business; stimulate supplier capabilities to generate ideas for the future.
  • Supplier relationship. Establish standards, ways of working and trusted relationships with global & regional suppliers; in relevant categories; ensure best practices are applied and that there is a good foundation for strong performance, risk mitigation and rapid resolution of issues.

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