Job Description :
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
In your role as Supply Chain Director (SCD), Northern Europe (NE), you are the face of Supply Chain and Procurement to the Managing Director and the Executive Team as well as external collaborators, such as customers.
You will be part of the NE Executive Team, playing a key leadership role in bringing topline, bottomline, cash and organizational ambition of Diageo NE to life.
Within the Executive Team, the most important role of the SCD is to make NE Diageo the #1 supplier in the Total Beverage Alcohol (TBA) market. This will come through taking customer collaboration to the next level, delighting our customers, every case, every day, everywhere, and driving value through effective partnership with customers resulting in strong joint business plans and joint value creation.
In addition, you will be accountable to coordinate the works with Planning, Logistics, Brand Change and Innovation and partner with all others as needed to be able to deliver the service, inventory, forecast accuracy/bias, innovation and cost savings.
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You will lead all the dimensions such as run, improve, and transform,
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You will lead and manage the market specific supply organization,
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You will be the custodian for process, people, and digital capabilities, and operationalizing all the findings and insights. This role will report to the Managing Director, Northern Europe, with a key seat on their leadership team and will also work in close partnership with regional markets, categories, Digital & Technology organization.
Experience, Skills & Capabilities Required
Previous Successful Experience:
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Having directly worked with senior business leadership.
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External collaboration, ideally in the customer space.
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This is a senior leader role requiring strategic depth of experience working within progressive positions within the end-to-end Supply Chain function, within multiple areas.
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First hand planning experience in IBP, S&OP, S&OE, Demand Planning is crucial.
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Leading change across the supply chain, through value driven collaborative partnership.
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Proven track record in designing, shaping and implementing complex change agenda and transferring work from one location to another.
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Has developed and successfully implemented strategies.
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Has led cost savings in the past.
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Experience in multiple routes to markets including e-commerce.
Skills/Capabilities:
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Growth mindset
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Passion for data and a performance culture. Very strong analytical skills.
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Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to foster and maintain strong working relationships and influence at all levels of the organisation. At ease working effectively with a diverse group of collaborators and business cultures.
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Team Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire and motivate teams.
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Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written combined with the ability to engage effectively at all levels in the organisation.
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Digital dexterity. Previous experience (and hunger to learn) on advanced planning tools, digital control towers, BI, etc.
Desirable:
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Experience with direct operational accountability of delivery on outcomes in a market of a group of markets working in a multinational CPG / FMCG
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BSc in engineering, supply chain, data science/statistics/applied mathematics, economics. Additional MBA or MSc in Supply Chain Management or similar would be desirable.
Work With Us
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, 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 bas