Job - Supply Chain Network Design Specialist

Job Title: Supply Chain Network Design Specialist

About us:

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About the Role

The Supply Chain Network Design Specialist is a strategic technical leader responsible for owning, governing, and evolving sophisticated end‑to‑end supply network models that develop Diageo’s proactive transformation agenda. This role goes beyond technical execution: it requireleadership skillsal, influence without authority, and the ability to partner with senior stakeholders to shape and recommend business‑critical decisions.

You will lead hypothetic modelling, synthesise insights into compelling recommendations, and play a pivotal role in ensuring the organisation makes informed, strategically aligned choices across the 5C metrics (Cost, Cash, Continuity, Customer, Carbon).

Top Accountabilities

1. Data Leadership & Governance

• Accountable owner of all modelling data, acting as the authority for validation, accuracy, and cross‑functional alignment.

• Lead the Data Gate process with Business Requestors and Finance, ensuring full traceability, auditability, and formal sign‑off before modelling begins.

• Challenge assumptions and proactively recommend better inputs where required.

2. Model Ownership & Technical Leadership

• Act as the primary technical leader for constructing, calibrating, and maintaining baseline and scenario models.

• Drive continuous improvement of modelling methodology, tools, and process discipline.

• Coach others in the team in structured modelling techniques and advanced analytics.

3. Strategic Insights & Recommendation‑Making

• Translate complex model outputs into insightful, business‑relevant recommendations that guide senior decision‑makers.

• Lead the analytical grounding of the “size of prize”, ensuring clarity of options, trade‑offs, and financial impact.

• Strengthen and articulate strategic thinking by identifying patterns, risks, and value opportunities across the E2E network.

4. Scenario Creation & Translation of Business Questions

• Proactively challenge and refine hypotheses from stakeholders to ensure scenarios are strategically sound.

• Own and lead creation of scenario designs, resilience testing, sensitivity analyses, and trade‑off modelling.

• Make informed recommendations on scenario prioritisation and viability.

5. Cross‑Functional Influence & Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with functional leaders across Logistics, Procurement, Finance, Manufacturing, and Commercial to shape inputs, align assumptions, and secure buy‑in.

• Demonstrate strong communication and storytelling skills, enabling senior audiences to confidently endorse recommendations.

• Influence stakeholders to adopt best‑practice data, governance, and modelling behaviours.

6. Process & Governance Leadership

• Champion adherence to the SND Gated Governance Framework and lead on ensuring gates are met with high‑quality outputs.

• Actively identify risks and proactively recommend mitigations.

• Contribute leadership thinking to the continuous evolution of SND processes.

7. Continuous Improvement & Technical Innovation

• Identify and lead improvement initiatives in modelling, tooling, workflow automation, and data pipelines.

• Bring forward new methods, analytical techniques, or technologies to enhance team capability.

Experience Required/Skills/Capabilities

• Minimum 9+ + years in Supply Chain Network Design, S&OP analysis, Logistics Strategy, or related fields in FMCG/CPG multinationals.

• Domain experience in Supply Chain from FMCG/CPG is mandatory for this role

• Validated leadership in owning analytical workstreams or modelling deliveries thadviseorm strategic decisions.

• Advanced modelling experience using tools such as Coupa Llamasoft.

• Strong capability in E2E cost reconciliation and bridging operational vs. financial views.

• Highly advanced data manipulation skills (Expertise Excel/VBA/Python/SQL) to cleanse and structure large, complex data sets.

• Track record of presenting analytical recommendations to senior, non‑technical audiences.

Skills/Capabilities

• Leadership Potential: Proven ability to guide, support, or mentor colleagues; able to step into leadership responsibilities in multi‑workstream environments.

• Critical Thinking & Problem‑Solving: Able to form clear recommendations, challenge assumptions, and shape options.

• Stakeholder Management: Strong communicator who can influence cross‑functional partners and senior leaders.

• Analytical Excellence: Advanced Excel, VBA, Python or SQL; ability to analyse large datasets and surface insights.

• Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and strategic planning concepts.

• Agility & Adaptability: Able to operate across multiple projects, shifting priorities, and tight governance timelines.

• Presentation & Storytelling: Capable of synthesising complex modelling outputs into compelling, executive‑level narratives.

Diversity Statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is 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.  

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.  

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