Supplier Sustainability Lead

Job Title: Supplier Sustainability Lead

*Please note: this is a 12 month contract*

About the Function

Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximising the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.

Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.

About the role

This role is instrumental in accelerating our delivery of Scope 3 / Carbon & Water goals through the development of external roadmaps of our most influential / critical suppliers. Provide the visibility and glidepath required to meet our Grain to Glass strategy.

Working directly with key suppliers, you will design, launch, and manage Scope 3 Roadmaps. To do this, you will leverage our technology solutions to help the business make data-driven decisions about our decarbonisation & water strategies with suppliers. Your will be the key point of contact and advisor to internal stakeholders: Grain to Glass team, Procurement Category managers, and others.

This role sits in Supplier Excellence & Social Procurement team, the individual will work very closely with the Grain to Glass Strategy Teams & Global and Market Category Managers to embed strategy into the roadmaps.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead on the Design & Launch of Scope 3 Roadmaps for Carbon and Water Supplier engagement programs, leveraging your sustainability expertise.

• Lead workshops with key stakeholders to define programme objectives, KPIs and timelines to successfully deliver Scope 3 Roadmaps for Carbon and Water.

• Build compelling deliverables including Programme Strategy Documents, Supplier Communications Packs and Roadmaps.

• Carry out supplier sessions to ensure suppliers are aligned on programme goals and are set up for success in sharing data via our technology solutions.

• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders: suppliers and internal to Diageo, offering continuous strategic and practical support.

• Conduct quarterly Roadmaps reviews with suppliers and stakeholders to assess progress, refine strategies, and ensure they are on track to achieve the goals

Key Skills, Experience & Capabilities

• Significant experience in a high-performance environment ideally delivering multiple high impact sustainability projects.

• Graduate or equivalent or member of professional bodies e.g. IEMA

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in data analysis (e.g. MS Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, SQL or similar).

• Demonstrated performance when both leading and working on programs with global cross-functional teams, experience in executing programs aligned to category and Procurement strategies.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.

• Ability in leading Supplier Collaboration/Supplier Relationship Management programmes desirable.

Working With Us

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 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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