Job Description :

Category Development Manager

Please note this is a 6month contract role, immediate to 1month start.

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.

Top Accountabilities

Functional:

• Establish and fully embed the Adult Drink strategy as the framework for expressing our category, brand, innovation and portfolio plans to customers in GB.

• Lead customer engagement with Diageo’s category vision, strategy and plans to enable and support brilliant activation of Diageo plans

• Establish Diageo as the go to supplier (and most trusted/respected) for category management across all strategic customers by delivering ‘Best In Class’ Category Management to include industry leading insights delivered through unbiased recommendations in a compelling & action orientated way. Establishing category management as a powerful growth engine for Diageo GB.

• Work with senior stakeholders (up to director level) in our customers’ businesses to identify opportunities to grow TBA, strategically partnering with our customers’ teams to analyse the future trends in the market & building collaborative plans focused on growth.

• Make in outlet navigation (assortment, merchandising, pricing, promotion, display) simple and commercially focused, and in doing so, give our customers a compelling point of difference in their range.

• Connect our internal teams across commercial, shopper marketing, activation, NRM & digital to drive tangible actions from insight that will drive the triple win for Diageo, Customer and shopper.

Leadership:

Win through Execution

• Sets and pursues direction without guidance and takes a wide view of their accountabilities

• High energy and ambition to achieve successful outcomes and high standards

• Balances analysis and execution and adjusts thinking in the face of new information

• Actively spots opportunities or issues and identifies which are urgent and important

• Generates a range of workable solutions, decides what should be done and takes action

Shape the Future

• Sees the big picture and possibility from multiple angles and through a creative lens

• Frames issues in a way that creates clarity and incorporates others' best thinking

• Accurately digests large amounts of information and breaks down complex problems thoroughly

• Challenges themselves and others to take on new or unfamiliar tasks and ways of working

Inspire through Purpose

• Finds broader meaning in their work and aspires to make a significant difference

• Reads their environment and understands how culture and context influences people's perspectives

• Is actively aware of the impact they have on others and tunes in to the needs of individuals around them

• Communicates in a compelling, persuasive and impactful way

• Draws on a variety of influencing styles to engage different audiences

Invest in Talent

• Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed

• Maintains belief and optimism and bounces back quickly from setbacks or failures

• Demonstrates a realistic and thoughtful awareness of their own capabilities

• Proactively seeks feedback and development for growth and takes action

About you:

• 4+ years of relevant marketing/commercial experience

• Existing capability to build genuine relationships built on mutual trust & respect

• Successful management of senior stakeholders, resulting in strong and positive outcomes

• Holistic skill set across various marketing growth drivers as well as a track record of delivering transformational business results

• Comfort with dealing with ambiguity, complexity and working within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and matrixed environment

• Demonstrated brilliant execution to high standards

• Deep personal accountability for great performance

• Strong commercial and numerical acumen with attention to detail

Benefits

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including bonus, flexible benefit allowance, product allowance and much, much more!

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

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.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

1HQ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-05-17

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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