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.

Sales Graduate Programme
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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.

Find out more about working in Sales at Diageo

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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.

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“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 Ribeiro
Direct to Consumer Platforms & Partnerships Manager, Amsterdam

Sales graduate programmes

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.

Applications are now open.

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.

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.

Applications will open in September 2024.

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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. 

Applications will open in September 2024.

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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.

Applications will open in September 2024.

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Joining our Sales Graduate Program is the opportunity of the lifetime to work with Industry leaders across a 2-year rotational program.

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 will open in April 2024. 

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From Guinness, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker to Baileys, Captain Morgan and Gordon’s, Diageo has a stable of premium drinks brands enjoyed the world over. Our Marketing teams play a big role in ensuring our brands live and breathe their purpose and we remain at the heart of celebrations everywhere.

You’ll help create compelling and powerful stories to make our existing brands even stronger, and perhaps even launching new ones. Developing creative platforms that will be activated all over the world, you’ll use your creativity, vision and pioneering spirit to bring our brands to life.

Through working on iconic and innovative brands you will be inspired to excel and build the foundations of your Marketing and Commercial Capability. These foundations will help you to advance at an accelerated pace, where you’ll be ready to specialise in an area of Marketing within Diageo after the programme.

Throughout the programme, you’ll have a combination of formal training with a 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.