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Procurement Specialist - Scottish and Irish Brand Homes

Location: Dublin, Edinburgh, London

Contract: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Closing Date: Friday 13th March 2026

About this role

The Procurement Specialist role is part of our global community of procurement professionals that are responsible for delivering a significant contribution towards Diageo’s business, productivity and growth goals.

As Category Lead you will join the fantastic Europe Procurement team. You will be responsible for leading across all Marketing and Indirects investment within Irish and Scottish Brand Homes, across the following delivery areas:

Our Brand Homes welcome millions of visitors each year - from the Guinness Storehouse and Roe & Co Distillery in Dublin, to Johnnie Walker Princes Street and our network of whisky distillery experiences across Scotland. Sitting as the Category Specialist within the Europe Procurement team, you will be responsible or overseeing all Marketing and Indirects investment that supports our Irish and Scottish Brand Homes. Your delivery areas will include:

Building Category Implementation Plans: Applying strategic procurement excellence and create the Category Strategy/Implementation plan. Your plans should consider market insights, deliver excellence benefits, and drive value in line with targets.
Strategic Execution: Supporting end-to-end execution of category strategies, working with global and other market category professionals in line with strategy.
Business Partnering: Cultivate and nurture key stakeholder connections internally and externally to help shape investment decisions, drive commercial advantage, minimize risk, and ensure quality of delivery and performance.
Agency Ecosystem Management: Drive development and optimization of the agency ecosystem for business and brand needs.
Sourcing Excellence: Spearhead sourcing activities including negotiating with agency partners, implementing workplans, navigating agency selection processes, and contracting.
Relationship Collaboration Programme (RCP) Leadership: Drive RCP initiatives across relevant areas.
Driving the Highest Standards of Compliance: Through risk management processes, spend monitoring, segmentation, savings tracking & reporting, contract management, cost modelling/benchmarking.
Data-Led Decision Making: Utilize key tools and data to generate insights that enable you to objectively challenge established practices to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decision-making.
Subject Expertise: Develop deep expertise in specific spend categories.

In addition to category deliver the Specialist will play a key role with the rest of the team to drive us against the wider Procurement Ambition and vision.

About you

We are looking for a dynamic individual with the ability to thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment while finding clarity in ambiguous situations by stimulating alternative thinking. We want you to show high levels of energy and commitment and a relentlessness in the pursuit of goals.

Experience in a Procurement, Finance, Project Management, Marketing, Commercial or other relevant role. If you have experience in a sector similar to ours then that would be a bonus.
You have strong analytical skills, including forensic understanding of the cost drivers to target and influence costs through end-to-end value. Have commercial acumen, understanding of the business and judgment.
You can demonstrate consistent performance and examples of executing projects and driving strategic change through influencing stakeholders. You use industry knowledge and research to drive improvements.
Strong communication skills are a key strength and you have the ability to articulate across all levels of the organization. Experience developing and carrying out category and procurement strategies is advantageous.
Independent thinker with strong leadership & communication skills, able to inspire internal marketing team members and external agency partners.
Experience in high-spend negotiations in a Procurement function would be advantageous, however if you are familiar with negotiations on a business or at Marketing level this is encouraging too.

Working with Us

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

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

Competitive base salary and bonus scheme
Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
Contributary pension scheme
Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
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We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on havingdiverse 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.

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.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

St James Gate

Additional Locations :

1HQ, Edinburgh Park

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-03-04

Procurement Specialist - Scottish and Irish Brand Homes

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