Global Travel IBP Leader

Job title: Global Travel IBP Leader

Location: London

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 14th October 2026

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world’s most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life’s moments - from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.

Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.

Join us and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.

About the Function

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. 

With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. 

It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love. 

About the Role

The IBP Lead role is a key market role and the face of Planning and Logistics within the respective market.  The IBP Lead maintains a management and leadership role to ensure the Integrated Business Planning is managed and delivered in line with the Diageo requirements The role interacts with senior leaders within the market and supports the leadership team by ensuring timely decision making in response to changing business plans.

Within the market the role of the IBP lead is ensure sufficiency in the top and bottom line where gaps between the latest estimate are clear. This will come through in a holistic understanding of the E2E business process and early identification of risk and opportunities that will enable Diageo to come up with the right gap closing options, decision making and action plans, in addition to driving value through effective partnership with commercial, marketing and the GM to ensure robust execution of the business plan and joint value creation through the IBP process.

In addition, they are also accountable to coordinate and facilitate the monthly IBP process with Marketing, Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning and Logistics, to deliver the service, inventory, forecast accuracy/bias volume plan, NSV, innovation and cost savings.

• They will lead all the meetings within the IBP Cycle and Weekly S&OE meeting.

• They will be ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard. Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation.

• They will ensure the continuous change management and elimination of parallel processes that hinder the effectiveness of the IBP Meetings and Decisions.

Dimensions

Interfaces:

This role operates within a very complex and evolving network with the following dimensions:

• Monthly cross functional collaboration with interdisciplinary departments and country Exec including Marketing Director, Finance Director, Commercial Director, Customer Service Director and Managing Director.
• All SC&P interfaces (function, category)
• Global IBP Process Owners
• Digital tools such as APO/OMP, Anaplan

Top Accountabilities:

• Accountable for ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard through the PMR, DMR, SR and MBR.

•  Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation.

• Facilitates IR Review with Finance, including driving the agenda, focus and level of escalation.

• Manages the monthly reconciliation cycle and is tasking the development and alignment of key decisions and gap closing scenarios.

• Coordinates the delivery of the overall business plan to deliver its objectives by combining the IBP plan with business activity and key drivers. Influences decision focus and executive alignment.

• Supports business performance management through exception-based root cause and escalation.

• Delivers key IBP performance metrics to the standard required.

• Full integration with finance to deliver a single business plan, with clearly identified gaps and actions.

• Works with Demand and Finance to facilitate decision and actions in response to changes in business assumptions and plans.

• Ensures the effective coordination if the monthly S&OE cycle and related meetings, including process implementation and management coordination.

•  Is seen by the business as an extension of the executive team with clear influence and access.

• Can prioritise the management agenda, in a way that ensures trust in escalation and focus. Can present clearly defined decisions, including scenarios.

•  Has the ability to work within the dynamics of a leadership team.

• Supports the category process with pro-active integration as needed.

• Drives process and tool enhancement, and advanced design foundations. Uses business tools and process, with resistance to informal workarounds.

• Drives continuous improvement using established process methodologies, including formal assessments, the Diageo Playbook, and formal meeting review, as well as their role as a business leader and influencer.

• Prepare value adding visual information and recommendations to support business planning and decision making. This includes conforming to Diageo standards for reporting and presentation, and the ability to clearly show an audience what is important when presenting information. Includes the ability to add clear and meaningful narration to visual presentations and the use of appropriate visual techniques (such as graphs and images) to maintain interest and focus.

• Develop and design (or support the development and design) of information management processes (such as Business Intelligence reporting or dashboards) to ensure they deliver business value and focus.

•  Influence business executives to make changes to their plans by providing insight and support as needed based on information developed through the IBP process.

• Articulates insights and outcomes in a way that can lead to an agreed executive decision / outcome.

• Support business executives in delivering their business objectives through the preparation of plans and scenarios as needed, the reporting of key information and exceptions, and the completion of analysis and review of past performance and future.

• Takes ownership and accountability for the business planning / budgeting cycle on behalf of the Market executive team and coordinates the activity to deliver a formal business plan / budget.

• manage the delivery of strategic plans to support business objectives in response to changing market and business requirements where accountable. This includes delivering to agreed plans and managing change and risk.

• Understand the key components of financial reports, including related metrics in a way that allows the appropriate review of financial numbers to identify areas of concern that might require review and explanation, and to bridge key gaps between planned and current performance.

• Prepares and presents decision recommendations into appropriate IBP reviews, clearly articulating options, and impact in terms of volume, value, and resource requirements, and have developed a trusted position within the team to ensure appropriate support.

Experience / Skills rRequired:

• Experience working directly with senior business leadership.

• Practical experience of Demand Planning, to analyse demand performance and trends, marketing, and sales activity impact (including pricing), and reach conclusions on what that might meant about current and future demand plans.

• Has practical experience of IBP in a similar role and / or business, which can be used to support the current role and challenge

• Can manage an appropriate change management process to ensure market adoption of IBP, using Diageo principles, processes, and resources, as well as their own skills, capabilities, and position.

• Experience working in IBP/S&OP

•  First hand planning experience in IBP, S&OP, S&OE, Demand Planning.

• Has developed and successfully implemented strategies and IBP programs at a market and regional level.

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.

Our purpose is crafting iconic drinks chosen for life’s moments. And it’s our people, with their different experiences, perspectives and talents, who make that possible.

We value diversity in its broadest sense and want everyone to feel they can belong, contribute and strive for their personal best. You’ll work alongside people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives — challenging, supporting and learning from one another as one

outstanding team.

Together, we’re constantly learning and improving, combining the strength of our people, capabilities and iconic brands to raise the bar, grow and win. Wherever you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute, make an impact and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.

Ready to bring your best? This could be your opportunity.

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