Job Description
Job description
Job Description :
Marketing Procurement Category Specialist- Experiential Marketing/Customer Marketing
Location: London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin or Madrid
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Join our Procurement Team
As the custodians of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year, across 180 markets globally. The commercial challenges here are large, diverse and endlessly fascinating. Never more so than in Procurement.
As an organisation, we spend over £5 billion per year. And as the driving force in this expenditure, our Procurement teams make a far-reaching contribution to our business, productivity and growth goals – right across the globe. Premium quality and end-to-end, sustainable value are how we measure our success – across services, partnerships and products. We always want to be the best and, along with engaging the best talent to work with the best products, this is how we attempt to do it. Ultimately, this is about people as much as numbers. We build great relationships internally and externally – so we understand our needs and how to meet them. Every time. Join us in Procurement and, if you’re driven, resilient and share our pioneering spirit, there’s a world of opportunity here for you.
About the Role
As part of our Europe Procurement team you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.
The Diageo Europe Marketing Procurement team has always been a significant contributor towards Diageo productivity and growth goals and considered a trusted and respected partner internally and externally.
Experiential Marketing includes sampling, events/roadshows and at/in home events to drive memorable engagement and experiences with consumers and value for customers. The Category Specialist Experiential Marketing will be a member of a team of Category Specialists working directly with Europe Category Managers and Global Category Managers.
Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
• To apply strategic procurement excellence, through creation and deployment of Europe Category Strategy built on Diageo’s best methods, standards, and tools, to deliver procurement value and embed a cost consciousness culture that supports investment optimisation in Experiential Marketing categories.
• Leading sourcing activities, cost modelling, contract management, supplier relationship management, supplier innovation and supplier development activity using best in class processes and ways of working.
• To deploy category management techniques to avoid wastage and pursue outstanding spend practices.
• Lead and implement ongoing supplier performance initiatives through key performance indicators and service level agreements and application of a robust supplier review mechanism within a total contract ownership approach.
• Driving category excellence through execution of improve projects in line with the categories strategic objectives.
• Pro-actively Collaborate with partners building towards full engagement across all Europe markets.
• Adhere to and always promote the highest standards of compliance. This includes risk management processes and contract management.
• Generate insights and have good commercial foresight to objectively challenge established practice to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making.
Skills and Experience Required:
• A dynamic individual with the ability to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment while finding clarity in ambiguous situations by stimulating alternative thinking. We want you to show high levels of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals.
• Significant experience in Procurement, Finance, FMCG Commercial or another relevant role. Subject-matter expertise in Marketing spend categories, Experiential Marketing / Events, or other relevant areas such as C&E or PR field within an FMCG environment would be advantageous.
• Proven performance in projects and in cross-market teams, experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies, managing and negotiating with agencies/suppliers including forecasting and benchmarking.
• You can demonstrate consistent performance and examples of implementing projects and driving strategic change. You use industry knowledge and research to drive improvements.
• Strong communication skills are a key strength and you have the ability to articulate across all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to identify and problem solve independently.
Working with Us
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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.
We believe the most diverse and inclusive culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.
Around the world we have a number of inclusive Business and Employee Resource Groups known as BRGs and ERGs. These influential groups, made up of our people, represent various viewpoints, experiences and communities who generate thought-provoking work to enhance our business and workplace, creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for all.
Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:
• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Contributary pension scheme
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Annual bonus
• Share options
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.
Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, ****** orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands.
Join us and you’ll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll build brands consumers love.
We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you’ll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
1HQ
Additional Locations :
Edinburgh Park, Madrid, Onyx, Glasgow, St James Gate
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-0+-1+
Job Description :
Marketing Procurement Category Specialist- Experiential Marketing/Customer Marketing
Location: London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin or Madrid
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Join our Procurement Team
As the custodians of iconic brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, at Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of world-leading products every year, across 180 markets globally. The commercial challenges here are large, diverse and endlessly fascinating. Never more so than in Procurement.
As an organisation, we spend over £5 billion per year. And as the driving force in this expenditure, our Procurement teams make a far-reaching contribution to our business, productivity and growth goals – right across the globe. Premium quality and end-to-end, sustainable value are how we measure our success – across services, partnerships and products. We always want to be the best and, along with engaging the best talent to work with the best products, this is how we attempt to do it. Ultimately, this is about people as much as numbers. We build great relationships internally and externally – so we understand our needs and how to meet them. Every time. Join us in Procurement and, if you’re driven, resilient and share our pioneering spirit, there’s a world of opportunity here for you.
About the Role
As part of our Europe Procurement team you'll play a pivotal role in not only contributing to performance but also building and protecting Diageo's reputation across our supply base. This involves delivering outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain through our commercial leadership, offering innovative supplier solutions, and driving our sustainability agenda across our partners and suppliers.
The Diageo Europe Marketing Procurement team has always been a significant contributor towards Diageo productivity and growth goals and considered a trusted and respected partner internally and externally.
Experiential Marketing includes sampling, events/roadshows and at/in home events to drive memorable engagement and experiences with consumers and value for customers. The Category Specialist Experiential Marketing will be a member of a team of Category Specialists working directly with Europe Category Managers and Global Category Managers.
Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
• To apply strategic procurement excellence, through creation and deployment of Europe Category Strategy built on Diageo’s best methods, standards, and tools, to deliver procurement value and embed a cost consciousness culture that supports investment optimisation in Experiential Marketing categories.
• Leading sourcing activities, cost modelling, contract management, supplier relationship management, supplier innovation and supplier development activity using best in class processes and ways of working.
• To deploy category management techniques to avoid wastage and pursue outstanding spend practices.
• Lead and implement ongoing supplier performance initiatives through key performance indicators and service level agreements and application of a robust supplier review mechanism within a total contract ownership approach.
• Driving category excellence through execution of improve projects in line with the categories strategic objectives.
• Pro-actively Collaborate with partners building towards full engagement across all Europe markets.
• Adhere to and always promote the highest standards of compliance. This includes risk management processes and contract management.
• Generate insights and have good commercial foresight to objectively challenge established practice to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making.
Skills and Experience Required:
• A dynamic individual with the ability to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment while finding clarity in ambiguous situations by stimulating alternative thinking. We want you to show high levels of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals.
• Significant experience in Procurement, Finance, FMCG Commercial or another relevant role. Subject-matter expertise in Marketing spend categories, Experiential Marketing / Events, or other relevant areas such as C&E or PR field within an FMCG environment would be advantageous.
• Proven performance in projects and in cross-market teams, experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies, managing and negotiating with agencies/suppliers including forecasting and benchmarking.
• You can demonstrate consistent performance and examples of implementing projects and driving strategic change. You use industry knowledge and research to drive improvements.
• Strong communication skills are a key strength and you have the ability to articulate across all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to identify and problem solve independently.
Working with Us
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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.
We believe the most diverse and inclusive culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.
Around the world we have a number of inclusive Business and Employee Resource Groups known as BRGs and ERGs. These influential groups, made up of our people, represent various viewpoints, experiences and communities who generate thought-provoking work to enhance our business and workplace, creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for all.
Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:
• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Contributary pension scheme
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Annual bonus
• Share options
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.
Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, ****** orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands.
Join us and you’ll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll build brands consumers love.
We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you’ll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
1HQ
Additional Locations :
Edinburgh Park, Madrid, Onyx, Glasgow, St James Gate
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-0+-1+
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Marketing Procurement Category Specialist| Experiential Marketing|Customer Marketing position is now open for candidates interested in the Marketing Executive Jobs sector. This role in London offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Marketing Executive Jobs is a plus.
