Job - APAC Market Category Manager (Procurement)

Market Category Manager, POS & VAP(APAC)

Join Our APAC Procurement Team!

The Global Procurement function at Diageo plays a key role in fueling growth and value, every day, everywhere.

Our global Marketing Procurement ambition is to be the Gateway to the Agency ecosystem, connecting the Marketing and Commercial teams with the best talent and expertise of the outside world and ensuring seamless integration into the Diageo ways of working. The global Marketing Procurement COE is fundamental to the A&P efficiency agenda, driving growth by eliminating inefficient spend and waste from the system, using insights and commercial expertise to deliver value, managing risk and agency performance and championing Diageo’s 2030 goals.

This role forms part of the APAC Marketing Procurement Team and Diageo global category community,  instrumental in the development and implementation of our Category Strategy for POS – Point of Sales Materials consisting of Displays, glassware, premiums, prints, textile and logistics. and VAP – Value Added Packaging in APAC. The category is highly complex and influential omnichannel with varying stakeholder needs which require building and managing relationships in a matrixed environment that includes the Diageo One Procurement Community, and the APAC in-market marketing leadership teams. The prime accountability for the role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in this category are executed brilliantly with our agency partners.

This role reports to Market Category Director, Marketing & Indirect APAC

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role will be responsible for:

Own Category Performance through AOP – Annual Operation Plan/Business Reviews/Deployment and Market Initiatives.

The KPIs are

1. Cost Savings – Drive sustainable cost efficiencies through category strategic initiatives, managing demand, as of AOP and alignment with finance and business.

2. Cash Improvement – Deliver cash benefit and contribute to cooperate cash flow.

3. Compliance to procurement policy including sourcing guidelines, contract coverage for a targeted spend %, supplier risk management, supplier diversity, etc.

4. Supplier Relationship/Performance Management based on the supplier segmentation.

Category Strategy Development

• Externally curious and keep supplier market intelligence updated.

• Always challenge the status quo and drive transformation by keeping the supplier base right with capabilities fit for business, the commercial model with transparency and competitiveness, the supplier performance measured.

Business engagement with key stakeholders

• Always understand business needs along with the ever-changing business context. Make Category strategies be well catering to the business-needs/context, translated to category performance needs. Ensure presence of procurement support, driving alignment, consensus, and recognition at different levels of stakeholders.

Connection with global category leaders

• Being around with the global category community and keep learning and sharing.

• Understand the global strategy under global context and Diageo’s business environment, input APAC regional business context and needs, and contribute possible leavers in global category strategy development.

Collaboration with GBO (global business operation) such as sourcing operations, Vendor master team, etc.

• Collaborate with GBO team in driving user experience, efficient STP (source to payment) cycle.

• Embrace and pioneer new trends such a digitalization in sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management. Etc.

Spirit of Progress

Drive progress toward Diageo’s ambition Society 2030. In November 2020, Diageo launched an ambitious 10-year action plan to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world. 

Society 2030: Spirit of Progress is designed to make a positive impact on the world by 2030, building on the strong track-record Diageo has built in recent years, which includes

• Promote positive drinking

• Champion inclusion and diversity

• Pioneer grain-to-glass sustainability

• Doing business the right way

You can also read more on Diageo's website about our Society 2030 Action Plan: https://www.diageo.com/en/esg/society-2030-spirit-of-progress-plan

Qualifications & Experience required:

• 10+ years with Procurement experience, 5+ years in category management in an FMCG environment or other relevant.

• Categories exposure to marketing categories or other indirect categories.  

• Cross market experience with understanding culture difference without bias

• Spirit of change and transformation

• Lead for purpose – Result driven and dada/fact aptitude.

• Comfortable with fast changing environment and ambiguity.

• Optimistic, resilient, and brave while facing fluctuation, frustration and difficulties.

• High integrity

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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