Junior Manager-Source to Pay - Procurement Operations

Junior Manager-Source to Pay - Procurement Operations

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

Global Business Operations keeps our business moving, connecting markets, streamlining processes and keeping everything running smoothly at scale. 

With teams across Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, Gurugram, and Manila, GBO delivers the essential services that support our day-to-day performance, from finance to operations and beyond. It’s a truly global environment, where collaboration across time zones and cultures is part of everyday life. 

You’ll gain exposure to different markets, build skills for the future and develop a broad understanding of how a business operates at scale. It’s a great place to learn, grow and see the bigger picture.

The Supplier Experience Team is responsible to ensure that Source To Pay processes (including Purchase to Pay and Procurement Operations) are working effectively & efficiently, are well controlled and drive value for Diageo, also ensuring control agenda (SOX compliance) across all areas as well.

This role is part of the Supplier Experience Team and reports to the Sourcing Manager_ P-ops 

This role acts as the interface between GBS & Procurement community (accountable for the purchasing strategy) ensuring Diageo buys the right goods and services from the right supplier at the right price.

This is a sourcing specialist role which will directly support the Global and Regional Category Procurement teams, STP systems support and suppliers.

Advanced prior experience and understanding of sourcing and contracting processes and practices is essential.

Potential Barriers for success would be:

• →Lack of prior experience in leading negotiations, sourcing and contracting activity with limited supervision

• →Lack of project management skills

• →Lack of Procurement or market knowledge for their categories and markets

• →Lack of experience of using sourcing tools and systems

• →Lack of motivation and leadership skills

• →Inability and lack of drive to prioritise actions to deliver against tight timelines.

• →Inability to communicate clearly and concisely in a timely and professional manner

Hours of working will be determined by markets supported e.g., Europe, Africa, NAM etc.