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Diageo Procurement Lead GLASS & PET (LATAM) in Guadalajara, Mexico
Job Description :
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximising the £5 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.
Procurement Lead GLASS & PET
Lead procurement for Latinamerica and Caribbean in one or more categories of spend, through effective business partnering and collaboration across Procurement CoE. This includes (but is not limited to):
Applying strategic procurement excellence, by leading execution of and defining Market-specific category strategies built on Diageo’s best methods, standards and tools to deliver procurement value for Diageo.
In collaboration with Global Category Managers, coordinating end-to-end execution of category strategies across Markets and above-market where possible, ensuring that Market category professionals are aligned and working in line with strategy.
Serving as Market subject-matter expert for specific spend categories, ensuring collection and leverage of supply market expertise and close engagement with key partners for value-adding procurement.
The Market Category Manager is accountable for mobilising cross-Market procurement professionals in one or more spend categories into the global communities coordinated by relevant GCMs, ensuring their regular contact, strategic alignment, capability development and shared standard methodologies. The MCM is a critical issue for community members across the Market.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
General
Leadership. Build, handle and grow the business impact of category professionals passionate about common spend categories across the Market. Encourage and develop the team and mentor individuals as they develop and grow. Collaborate closely with and drive cross-Market collaboration with global category managers and global communities.
End to end category excellence. Take Market-wide ownership for maximising procurement value for Diageo from one or more spend categories, including application of outstanding market knowledge, key partner engagement, global community support in Market, tools & techniques.
Category strategy
Business partnering. Develop and grow relationships with team members, partners and suppliers for deeper insights into needs and capabilities; establish a position to advise on how to gain greater value from close engagement with Procurement. Bring global capability to the Market.
Strategy execution. Take accountability for end to end execution of all relevant category strategies developed for execution in the Market (including those led by GCMs). Track and monitor progress and keep aligned with global strategy owner. Ensure close collaboration of teams aligned behind strategies and resolve Market-wide partner concerns.
Strategy development. Support Market and Global Category Managers development and evolution of category strategies that match strategic business requirements and well researched and analysed market dynamics to create incremental procurement value for Diageo. Serve as the key point of contact for input of Market-specific expertise.
Best in class capabilities. Generate insights and opportunities from internal and external benchmarking, develop cost models to consider scenarios with suppliers and key partners and build & evolve analytics capabilities that allow regular review and improvement of strategies.
Sourcing
Global sourcing. Lead all sourcing activities for CM2 ( Above-market leverage ) and CM1 ( truly market-specific ) spend categories. Engage Market category team as required, apply Diageo Procurement standards process and engage other category professionals/ DBS as required.
Global contracting. For relevant sourcing projects, deliver the best possible outcomes for Diageo through effective planning, preparation and application of the Negotiation Toolkit. Negotiate and close contracts aligned to relevant category strategies.
Sourcing (cont’d)
Support to Global CoE. Support Global CoE with market sourcing activities through provision of standard methodologies, Market data and information, feedback from execution and lessons learned.
Contract management. Ensure Market-specific requirements are incorporated into all contracts global and market-specific. Review and co-develop contracts with GCMs as required for CM4 and CM3 and lead completion of all contracts for CM2 and CM1 spend categories, partnering with the tactical team as appropriate for all spot-buying.
Risk management
Mitigate strategic risks. As part of category strategy development and execution, identify and design mitigations for potential risks, in line with Diageo risk and governance standards.
Mitigate sourcing risks. Identify corporate, supply, supplier and other risks associated with sourcing activities and put mitigations in place, engaging all relevant team members, partners and suppliers to ensure the mitigations are successful.
Apply and improve tools & techniques. Apply Diageo Procurement standards process, ensuring the most recent and relevant approaches are always applied; use formal governance and peer review to ensure the quality and efficacy of risk management; contribute to development of standards.
Supplier management
Supplier relationship. Establish standards, ways of working and trust relationships with suppliers in relevant categories across Markets; ensure Diageo standard methodologies are applied and that there is a good foundation for strong performance, risk mitigation and rapid resolution of issues.
Supplier performance. In collaboration with GCMs and contract leads, set critical metrics, driving consistency across suppliers and markets, improving the value of data generated and applied and resolving chronic supplier performance issues. Direct which supplier issues should be addressed by the Procurement team and which by other parts of Diageo, for the best results.
Supplier development. 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.
Flexibility
This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
Diversity statement
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.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Mexico City
Additional Locations :
Guadalajara
Job Posting Start Date :
2024-05-21
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
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