Celebro Supply Chain Director

Job Title: Celebro Supply Chain Director

Location: London, Other Europe locations can be considered

Time type: Full time

Reports to: General Manager Celebro

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.

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About the function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the Role:

A unique and exciting opportunity to be the Supply Chain Director of Celebro, a newly created business unit within Diageo Europe. Celebro will be the European hub for the development of Nurture Brands and will manage the end-to-end marketing, distribution and supply of current small-scale brands in the Diageo portfolio, selected for their growth potential. The initial core brands in the unit will be Don Papa and Ron Santiago De Cuba. Further brands will be added to the portfolio after a process of analysing future growth potential.

The Supply Chain Director will be leading the Supply Chain and Procurement of the newly created Celebro unit. The role will report into the General Manager and will be part of the Celebro Leadership Team, playing a key leadership role in bringing topline, bottomline, cash and organizational ambition to life.

The future role holder is accountable to lead the Planning, Logistics, Customer Service and partner with all others (including Brand Change and Innovation) as needed to be able to deliver the service, inventory, forecast accuracy/bias and cost savings.

• lead all the dimensions such as run, improve, and transform
• lead and manage the Celebro supply organization
• will be the custodian for process, people, and digital capabilities, and operationalizing all the learnings and insights. 

Interfaces:

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

• Production hubs in Cuba and Philippines with external partners
• Third party bottler and dry goods suppliers in Europe
• Multiple route to market through third party distributors across Europe and other global markets
• With the addition of new brands, additional supply chain responsibility across multiple product categories

Top Accountabilities:

• Deliver Supply Chain Strategy for Celebro, supporting the growth of the brands in the business unit.
• Run the Celebro Logistics operation, at the right service (on time, in full, no error), cost (logistics cost per case), compliance. Partner with Commercial, Procurement and Supplier(s) to ensure the physical distribution network is fit for purpose.
• Leading and coaching the in-market supply organization
• Simplifying and streamlining processes and controls
• Ensuring the IBP process within the market works to the right standards
• Ability to work outside of standard Diageo systems and processes. Ability to think out of the box and strong creative problem solving

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities

Previous Successful Experience:  

• Minimum 12 years’ experience working within progressive positions within the end-to-end Supply Chain function, within multiple disciplines
• 5+ years first hand planning experience in Customer Engagement, IBP, S&OP, S&OE, Demand Planning is crucial.
• Has developed and successfully implemented strategies
• Has led cost savings in the past
• Experience in multiple routes to markets including e-commerce
• Having directly worked with senior business leadership

Skills/Capabilities:

• Growth Mindset
• Innovative thinking.
• Passion for data and performance culture. Very strong analytical skills.
• Collaboration:  Demonstrated ability to foster and maintain strong working relationships and influence at all levels of the organisation. At ease working effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders and business cultures.
• Team Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, motivate and grow teams.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written combined with the ability to engage effectively at all levels in the organisation.

Desirable:

• Experience with direct operational accountability of delivery on outcomes in a market of a group of markets working in a multinational CPG / FMCG
• BSc in industrial engineering, supply chain, data science/statistics/applied mathematics, economics. Additional MBA or MSc in Supply Chain Management or similar would be desirable.

Flexible Working Statement:

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.

Diversity statement:

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. 

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