Procurement Category Specialist, Glass

1 month ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Diageo Full time

Job Description:
Procurement Category Specialist, Glass

Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, London

Permanent

Closing date: 09/05/2023

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

Scope of the role:

- Procurement is a key global business function within Diageo, Source being a fundamental part of our end to end supply chain within Diageo
- Sustainable delivery of high performance from all suppliers is imperative and requires focussed resource to manage
- Strategic sourcing activity is mainly led at a global level but the in-market glass team play a pivitol role in this activity. There is also a small amount of local sourcing led directly by the in-market glass team
- Performance is managed at a regional market level
- The role covers Global Brand Supply (GBS) Scotland glass and has specific responsibility for ongoing management of supplier performance, including delivery of goods/services to agreed service levels plus, value delivery and an element of continuous improvement management
- The category specialist must be an effective business partner to key functions including plan, technical and make
- Our ESG agenda with continue to be a key part of our category agenda. The role will include a developing knowledge in this area and delivery of key KPI’s in partnership with our supplier.

Core responsibilities:
Leverage knowledge and experience across Glass supply base to find solutions To support development of category strategy and execute at an in-market level Manage end to end sourcing activity for local categories of spend Manage all aspects of supplier performance and identify continuous cost improvement opportunities Collation of project performance against annual operating plan (financial delivery and tracking) Management & maintenance of category price data including supporting Brand Change project costing activity

About you

To be successful in role you will have Procurement experience or equivalent role with transferrable skills

Ability to embed sustainable change via improve projects and CI plans

Capable project lead that can manage multiple projects and conflicting workloads

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

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.

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