Sales graduate programme
Put our brands at the heart of celebrations
Join one of our Sales graduate schemes and reach your fullest potential by selling some of the world's most iconic brands.
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Learn, invent, and sell
Every year, our Sales teams sell 6.5 billion litres of premium spirits and beer in more than 180 countries. And by joining one of our Sales graduate schemes, you'll learn how it's all done.
Together with colleagues from all corners of the world, you'll create and push boundaries as you sell and promote timeless brands like Baileys, Guinness, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff. Using consumer insight and digital platforms, you'll find them new reasons to be purchased, new places to be sold, and new generations of consumers to delight.
In an inclusive culture, you'll be celebrated for your contributions and get all the support you need to kick-start an exciting and rewarding Sales career.
Find your location
Our Sales and Commercial graduate programmes last for two years and are available in Australia, China, Brazil, and across Europe, including Great Britain, Ireland, Turkey, Southern Europe and Northern Europe. In Europe, you may get the opportunity to split the programme across two countries.
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Discover the full breadth
With the chance to work across brands and collaborate with people across regions, our graduate schemes are a brilliant chance for you to learn, gain valuable Sales experience, and create your own network of people from all over the world — from graduates to experienced professionals.
Throughout the programme, you’ll have the opportunity to work in different roles across our sales teams, experiencing everything from Field Sales to Account Management. You'll discover all you need to know about our brands, our competitors, the market, and our customers along the way.
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From day one, you'll be immersed in the Sales process and make a real contribution to our business. You'll spend time building relationships with our partners and working with customers to maximise sales. You'll also promote our much-loved brands, so that they're readily available and well presented.
In other words, you'll not only get hands-on but also help shape the future of our brands and business by driving growth.
“I was worried that being young and relatively inexperienced would get in the way of success, but that really hasn’t been the case. I’ve always been taken seriously here.”
Francisco RibeiroDirect to Consumer Platforms & Partnerships Manager, Amsterdam
Sales graduate programmes
Diageo graduates have the best of all worlds. Our hands-on, accelerated learning programmes are perfect for people who are curious and have an ability to learn. If you want to gain depth and breadth of an organisation to be set up for a career to be proud of, you’re in the right place.
This two-year graduate scheme offers a wide variety of opportunities at the heart of our global organisation. During the programme, you’ll have the opportunity to excel in areas such as Account Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper and Customer Activation, Innovation, and Reserve.
The scheme offers a blended learning approach, combining formal training with a global leadership curriculum, mentoring and coaching from respected colleagues and — most importantly — real-world, on-the-job experience. From the very beginning, you’ll be working on projects that will develop and improve your skillset. You’ll be able to make a real contribution to the business while building a global network of relationships that will support your career, both now and long into the future.
Diageo graduates have the best of all worlds. Our hands-on, accelerated learning programmes are perfect for people who are curious and have an ability to learn. If you want to gain depth and breadth of an organisation to be set up for a career to be proud of, you’re in the right place.
With opportunities across eight vibrant locations in Europe, this two-year graduate scheme offers a wide variety of opportunities at the heart of our global organisation. During the programme, you’ll have the opportunity to excel in areas such as Account Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper and Customer Activation, Innovation, and Reserve.
The scheme offers a blended learning approach, combining formal training with a global leadership curriculum, mentoring and coaching from respected colleagues and — most importantly — real-world, on-the-job experience. From the very beginning, you’ll be working on projects that will develop and improve your skillset. You’ll be able to make a real contribution to the business while building a global network of relationships that will support your career, both now and long into the future.
Diageo graduates have the best of all worlds. Our hands-on, accelerated learning programmes are perfect for people who are curious and have an ability to learn. If you want to gain depth and breadth of an organisation to be set up for a career to be proud of, you’re in the right place.
With opportunities across Southern Europe, this two-year programme has an exciting workplace learning approach that means you will spend your days right at the heart of an enormous global organisation.
Start your Commercial career with some of the most iconic brands in the world. Taking iconic, timeless brands like Baileys, Guinness and Smirnoff and finding them new generations of shoppers, new untapped markets, new reasons to be purchased, and new places to be sold.
You’ll be immersed in the sales process from the beginning. You’ll spend time building relationships with Diageo partners and working with customers to improve sales. You’ll be responsible for ensuring our brands are successfully promoted, readily available and well presented to anyone who wants to buy them.
Over the two-year rotation programme, you’ll have an opportunity to excel in areas across our Commercial teams such as Field Sales, Account Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper and Customer Activation, Innovation and Reserve. You’ll discover everything you need to know about our brands, our competitors, the market and customers.
There may be the opportunity to relocate to another exciting part of our organization within Europe either during or after the programme.
Throughout the programme, you’ll have a combination of formal training with a global leadership curriculum, mentoring and coaching from respected colleagues and, most importantly, real world, on-the-job experience. From the beginning you’ll be working on projects that will develop and improve your skill set. You’ll be able to make a real contribution to the business while building a global network of relationships that will support your career, both now and long into the future.
Who are we looking for?
On the qualification side, you’ll need to have acquired or be expecting to obtain an academic degree and be graduating in 2023 or within the last 5 years.
You must be fluent in English and hold a full clean valid driver’s license. For our graduate opportunities you must be mobile and prepared to relocate geographically during the programme.
Character is everything. You’ll need to be a curious, flexible, self-motivated team-player who loves to turn ideas into action and someone who shows integrity, respect for others and, above all, a passion for learning something new every day.
We have several graduate opportunities across the business. For the best chance of being successful we recommend applying for one programme. Applications are on a rolling process, and we will close roles when we find our graduates for 2023. Here’s hoping it’s you!
Diageo graduates have the best of all worlds. Our hands-on, accelerated learning programmes are perfect for people who are curious and have an ability to learn. If you want to gain depth and breadth of an organisation to be set up for a career to be proud of, you’re in the right place.
Joining our Sales Graduate Program is the opportunity of the lifetime to work with Industry leaders across a 2-year rotational program.
Over the two-year rotation programme, you’ll have an opportunity to excel in areas across our Commercial Sales teams such as Field Sales, Account Management, Category Insights, Shopper and Customer Activation, Innovation and Digital Commerce. Our program is designed to take you where you want to go – with the opportunity to choose your final rotation to suit your career aspirations! You’ll discover everything you need to know about our brands, our competitors, the market and customers.
Throughout the program, you’ll have a combination of formal training with a global leadership curriculum, mentoring and coaching from respected colleagues and, most importantly, real world, on-the-job experience. From the beginning you’ll be working on projects that will develop and improve your skill set. You’ll be able to make a real contribution to the business while building a global network of relationships that will support your career, both now and long into the future.
Applications are now closed.