Market Category Analyst, Logistics (LAC)

Job Description :

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 About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

 About the Function:

ur Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximising the £12 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.

Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.

 

 About the team:

PURPOSE OF THIS ROLE

Lead procurement in Logistics categories spend, through effective business partnering and collaboration across Procurement CoEs.  This includes (but is not limited to):

·      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 stakeholders for value-adding procurement.

The Market Category Analyst 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,  capability development and shared best practices. 

ACCOUNTABILITIES

General

·      Leadership.  Build, manage and grow the business impact of category professionals focused on common spend categories across the Market.  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 best in class market knowledge, stakeholder engagement, global community support in Market, tools & techniques.

Category strategy

·      Business partnering.  Develop and grow relationships with stakeholders, 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 escalations. 

·      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 stakeholders and build & evolve analytics capabilities that allow regular review and improvement of strategies.

 

 

Sourcing

·      Support to Global CoEs.  Support Global CoEs with market sourcing activities through provision of best practices, 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.

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 stakeholders, partners and suppliers to ensure the mitigations are successful.

·      Apply and improve tools & techniques.  Apply Diageo Procurement best practice standards, 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 relatioships with suppliers in relevant categories across Markets; ensure Diageo best practices 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 KPIs, 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 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.

ENTRY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS (CAPABILITIES, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE)

·      Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body, e.g., CIPS

·      Minimum 5 years’ experience in Procurement, Finance, FMCG Commerical or other relevant role, with subject-matter expertise in supply markets and spend categories relevant to the role

·      Demonstrated performance managing and negotiating with suppliers and experience developing and executing category.

·      Strong analytical and financial awareness including a comprehensive understanding of AOP requirements and financial goals & value drivers relevant to the categories in scope

·      Analyst role experience with track record influencing and communication with senior stakeholders and budget holders and driving cross-border teams

·      Exceptional communication skills:  verbal, written and presentation; strong interpersonal skills

·      Proven track record of consistent performance and delivery.

English Fluid.

• Analysts are individual contributors

• Requires conceptual knowledge in own area of expertise; develops practical experience

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

• No supervisory responsibilities but may provide guidance to new analysts/associates

• Solves standard problems by identifying solutions based on standard practices

• Impacts quality of own work; works within guidelines and policies

• Explains information to others in straightforward situations

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. 

 Rewards & Benefits Statement:

 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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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Guadalajara

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-04-27