Diageo

Quality Executive - Reading

Reading, England Full time

Job Description :

Job Title- Quality Executive - Reading and surrounding areas

(Field Based)

 

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-

Our Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and vibrant markets where they can thrive. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year.

 

We’re operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you’ll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We’ll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realise your fullest potential.

Role Dimensions

Here at Diageo we take the quality of our Beer very seriously, we are globally renowned for making quality liquids and ensuring each pint is poured with perfection every time. The role of a Quality Executive is to deliver our beer and draught product quality agenda across the given territory including targets for Quality upgrades and interventions. The primary responsibility is to install the optimum range of dispense solutions in every account ensuring Great Looking Great Tasting (GLGT) Beer in every call.  To deliver this you will be expected to work to a planned call structure and detailed installation/service standards and have the ability to lone work but maintain the highest executional, organisational and administration standards. This is a hybrid Technical beer dispense capability role coupled with influencing and sales capability that makes you the GUINNESS Ambassador in the territory.

Top Accountabilities

  • Work to the Highest Standards - Install & Maintain dispense equipment at the point of purchase across a significant geographical account base delivering work tasks to the required specifications and standards  through a specific call structure.

  • Positively Influence the On Trade – Be an expert at selling the benefits of Great Quality to customers leaving a legacy of improvement post call to the consumers next pint

  • In Outlet Execution - Take every opportunity to drive GUINNESS Quality, Visibility + Distribution in each call visited

  • Managing your Workload - Self schedule calls both Proactive Service and Breakdown work and prioritise calls based on Service Level Agreements and strategic importance

  • Delivery of Role Objectives - Work to set targets across calls completed, coverage and specific Sales and Technical Dispense upgrade work.

  • One Team Ways of Working - Work as part of a team delivering Regional/National events and bespoke activity. Support the region by stepping into gaps in coverage

  • Administration – manage the ordering and return of equipment needed to carry out all jobs and monitor van stock levels. Ensure proficient in iPad based systems and have great hygiene with inputs of clear data into these systems pre and post call

  • Work cross functionally – You are part of the Field + Technical team with various commercial roles to partner with and deliver great outcomes. Be an Ambassador for GUINNESS Quality both internal/external 

Ideal Experiences / Qualifications / capabilities

  • Knowledge of the On Trade gained through working in the sector preferred

  • Established Beer Quality/Technical dispense experience preferred

  • Passion for the Diageo beer portfolio

  • Confidence in delivering outlet staff training to step change brand standards

  • Well organized and able to prioritise a varied portfolio of work

  • Team player – will be a key member of the team contributing to performance results for total territory

Please note you must demonstrate you have the right to work in the UK, be over 21 years of age and hold a full, clean driving license and proof of driving experience of at least 1 year. 

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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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

1HQ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-03-19