Assistant Procurement Manager

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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.

Roles & 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

Diversity statement

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 base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.