Procurement Category Director, Indirect APAC

4 weeks ago


Shanghai, China Diageo Full time

Description

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Purpose of the role

The Global Procurement function at Diageo plays a key role in fueling growth and value, every day everywhere. This role sits in the APAC Procurement Team and is key to driving the transformation innovation and deliverables of business service and expansion programs in the APAC region. The role reports into the (Sr.) Procurement Category Director - Marketing & Indirect Procurement - Asia Pacific.

APAC is one of the strategic and growing regions for Diageo. With many exciting business expansions, we are looking for a seasoned procurement profession to lead APAC indirect procurement with 3 category managers covering HR Services, Travel & Entertainment, Professional & Corporate Services, Facility Services & Real Estate in 10 major markets across APAC.

You will be responsible for:

Own Indirect Category Team KPIs through AOP (Annual Operation Plan/Business Reviews) -

Cost Savings – drive sustainable cost efficiencies through category strategic initiatives, managing demand, as of AOP and alignment with finance and business. Cash Improvement – Deliver cash benefit and contribute to cooperate cash flow Compliance to procurement policy including sourcing guidelines, contract coverage for a targeted spend %, supplier risk management, supplier diversity, etc. Supplier Relationship/Performance Management based on the supplier segmentation.

Category Strategy Development

Always challenge the status quo and drive transformation by keeping the supplier base right with capabilities and leading competence fit for business, the commercial model with transparency and competitiveness, the supplier performance measured, reported and relevant to commercial.

Provide coaching and develop team capabilities

Provide daily base coaching in dealing with complexities to the team, make team development plan focusing on opportunities through conversations, train the trainers, leveraging every resource internal and external.

Business engagement with key stakeholders

Always understand business needs along with the ever-changing business context. Make Category strategies be well catering to the business-needs/context, translated to category performance needs. Ensure presence of procurement support, driving alignment, consensus, and recognition at different levels of stakeholders.

Connection with global category leaders

Being around with the global category community and keep learning and sharing.

Collaboration with GBO (global business operation) such us sourcing operations, Vendor master team

Collaborate with GBO team in driving user experience, efficient STP (source to payment) cycle. Embrace and pioneer new trends such a digitalization in sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management. Etc.

Spirit of Progress

Drive progress toward Diageo’s ambition Society 2030,

In November 2020, Diageo launched an ambitious 10-year action plan to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Society 2030: Spirit of Progress is designed to make a positive impact on the world by 2030, building on the strong track-record Diageo has built in recent years, which includes Promote positive drinking; Champion inclusion and diversity; Pioneer grain-to-glass sustainability ; Doing business the right way.

You can also read more on Diageo's website about our Society 2030 Action Plan.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

Proven record with regional Procurement experience in an FMCG environment or other relevant industry.

Categories exposure in at least 3 of the indirect categories: HR Services, Travel & Entertainment, Professional & Corporate Services, Facility Services & Real Estate.

Inspiring and inclusive leadership to head up a mature indirect category team, lead by example and purpose.

Spirit of change and transformation, and comfortable with ever-changing environment and ambiguity.

Undoubtable and flawless integrity.

Working 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 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.

About Us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

We're looking for people with 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 :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

Shanghai

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-04-15

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