Job Description :
Job Title: Assistant Manager - Procurement
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 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 role:
Roles within category management are responsible for building relationships with suppliers and providers to deliver the goods, services and materials which support Diageo s operational requirements and performance ambition. Typical skills and expertise include stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, analytics and financial and business acumen.
This role is responsible for managing and optimizing the cost base across Travel and other Indirect categories. The objective is to ensure cost-efficient, compliant, and fit-for-purpose business solutions that meet stakeholder needs while driving value across the indirect spend portfolio. The Procurement Manager will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into well-defined scopes of work. The role involves aligning these needs with market capabilities and leading end-to-end sourcing processes to identify and onboard the most suitable supplier partners. In addition to driving the sourcing and contracting agenda, the manager will also be responsible for ongoing supplier relationship management including Supplier Performance Management (SPM) to ensure consistent service delivery, contract compliance, and continuous improvement across the relevant categories. Key indirect spend areas may include, but are not limited to, Travel, Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES), Professional Services, Facilities Management, and IT services.
Role Responsibilities:
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.
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.
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Bangalore HO
Additional Locations :
2025-07-25