Job Description :
Market Category Manager - Marketing (SEA) (6 Month contract)
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.
Join our Procurement team!
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximizing 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.
What does this role look like for you?
As the Market Category Manager for the A&P Marketing category for the South East Asia Region, you will join our incredible APAC Marketing Procurement team, with ownership in the development and ownership of the A&P Category Strategy for Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, driving deep business partnership with the marketing team to build joint value creation in order deliver their strategic commercial growth objectives while ensuring our business remains commercially competitive and our Advertising remains World Class. As the Category Manager for one of our largest categories, you will build strong cross-cultural relationships with key marketing partners to optimize our A&P investment across the region.
Where will you grow in this role?
- Develop and implement the long-term category strategy in alignment with the appropriate partners;
- Drive BAU category management aspects such as sourcing, contract management, risk management, and supplier performance and collaboration management;
- Grow and lead supplier relationship management activities with strategic suppliers;
- Collaborate with Market leads and key partners to understand market demand, objectives, priorities, challenges and opportunities; and
- Deliver financial and non-financial objectives which include risk and governance and our Society 2030 ambitions.
What you need to bring to this role?
- An experienced Procurement Category Manager that has a positive and collaborative mentality, with the gravitas and leadership capability to establish and build senior internal and external collaborator relationships and lead best in class category management execution;
- Can do broad critical thinking as well as detailed hands-on execution;
- Highly resilient and energized by challenges and white spaces;
- A positive change agent that thrives in ambiguity and matrixed environments;
- Highly organized multi-tasker that is skilled at prioritization and delivering through others when appropriate;
- Clear communicator and able to articulate a vision;
- Objectives focused and hold yourself accountable to deliver at a very high standard, delivering on promises and commitments; and
- Dedicated and able to work with autonomy requiring only light-touch senior support.
Working with us
Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we’ll work together so that you’re supported from day one.
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
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.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
Worker Type :
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)
Primary Location:
Ocean Financial Centre
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-03-19
Top Skills
What We Do
Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry.
With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future.
To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet
