Diageo
Global Procurement Specialist | Ingredients
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Job Title: Global Procurement Specialist | Ingredients
Location: England, Scotland, Ireland
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 23rd September 2026
About the Function
Procurement shapes how we build and grow our brands through the partnerships, services, and materials that support our business. Managing over £12bn of spend, this team works across our global supply chain to create value, drive efficiency, and support sustainable growth. From supplier partnerships to innovation, their work has a direct impact on the quality and success of our brands. You’ll collaborate with teams and partners around the world, helping deliver solutions that meet today’s needs while shaping what comes next.
About the Role
As a Global Procurement Specialist - Ingredients, you'll play a key role in supporting the development and delivery of Diageo's global ingredients category strategy. Working closely with the Global Procurement Manager and a broad network of internal and external partners, you'll help deliver sourcing excellence, build strong supplier relationships, and identify opportunities to create value across the category.
You'll lead and support competitive sourcing activities from end to end, including RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, commercial evaluations, contract implementation, and supplier onboarding. Using market intelligence, spend analysis, and supplier performance data, you'll identify opportunities to optimise costs, improve productivity, mitigate risk, and drive continuous improvement.
Collaboration is central to the role. You'll work with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to support governance, performance reviews, and Joint Business Planning, ensuring strong partnerships that contribute to the successful delivery of the category strategy.
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You'll also harness digital procurement tools, AI, analytics, and reporting to enhance sourcing effectiveness and support data-driven decision-making. Alongside this, you'll help ensure compliance with Procurement governance and contribute to delivering Diageo's Procurement 2028 priorities across Simplify, Scale, and Orchestrate.
In this role, you will:
- Support the development and execution of Diageo's global Ingredients category strategy, driving sourcing excellence and commercial value.
- Lead competitive sourcing activities, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, commercial evaluations, contract implementation, and supplier onboarding.
- Analyse spend, supplier performance, and market intelligence to identify opportunities for productivity, cost optimisation, value creation, and risk mitigation.
- Build collaborative relationships with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders, supporting governance, performance reviews, and Joint Business Planning.
- Leverage digital procurement tools, AI, analytics, and reporting to improve sourcing effectiveness and procurement performance.
- Ensure compliance with Procurement governance while supporting the delivery of Diageo's Procurement 2028 strategy and priorities.
Experience / Skills Required
- Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in Procurement, Supply Chain, Business, or a related discipline.
- Experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management, including sourcing events, tender management, and contract implementation.
- Strong commercial, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, with proficiency in procurement systems and data analysis.
- Digital procurement tools, AI, or advanced analytics desirable.
- Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
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Our Purpose
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
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 new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
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Worker Type: Regular
Primary Location: 1HQ
Additional Locations: Edinburgh Park, Onyx, Glasgow, St James Gate
Job Posting Start Date: 2026-08-26
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