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.
About the team: (TE)About the role:
Job Title: Junior Manager-Source to Pay - Procurement Operations
Reports To: Sourcing Manager_ P-ops
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.
The role will support the overall Sourcing process, both for spend owned by GBO end-to-end and Marketing category spend managed by regional procurement. The role will be responsible to deliver productivity savings (both hard and mitigation) through efficient and effective sourcing processes
This role will work with the marketing Category Managers and Specialists and suppliers and will interface with business users and senior stakeholders.
These relationships may encompass people based in a variety of locations and across multiple cultures, languages, seniority levels and time-zones.
Prior experience and understanding of sourcing and contracting processes and practices is essential.
c) Leadership Responsibilities
This role has no line management responsibilities, but the role will be expected to lead and manage sourcing activities that will need the candidate to show strong leadership qualities.
This role is required to engage, manage & influence the different stakeholder groups associated with Strategic Sourcing processes to deliver a timely and cost-effective sourcing. It requires the incumbent to have advanced knowledge of tendering systems and tools such as Coupa/CSO and end to end procurement processes.
The role will be expected to share best practice across Procurement and Sourcing teams and to seek out insights for improvements to processes, ways of working and opportunities for consolidation of sourcing requirements.
To be effective, a broad understanding of contractual concepts will be helpful.