LAC Marketing Procurement Manager

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.

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:

 The main purpose of the role is to become a more strategic business partner by having a broader and more comprehensive overview of the consumer categories enabling a more efficient and integrated supplier ecosystem (improving connectivity, promoting alignments and avoiding scopes’ overlap). 

Role Responsibilities:

Procurement Consumer Manager will be responsible for approx. USD 150M across LAC A&P Consumer Categories. The main initiatives are: 

Implement Media & Scale Reach strategy in LAC, by handling Regional Media Agency relationship and performance; 

Develop Sponsorships & Partnerships/Influencers strategy for LAC markets together with Market leaders and connect its strategy to concrete business critical metrics and measurement (M&E);  

Ensure Creative Strategy and partners are aligned with other co-related initiatives like Content Studio, Media/Digital first, Conscious Creation; 

Support the region to work in line with A&P shape guidance, sharing data, insights and recommendations to senior leadership; 

Work closely with Catalyst tool to connect same brand critical metrics with investment and supplier performance. 

Ensure great influence with key partners and procurement teams (Local, Regional and Global). 

Experience required:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience

• Preferable in CPG companies within Marketing categories and projects

• Experience in leading regional projects with positive impacts for the business

• Senior Stakeholder management and engagement and participation on executive forums.

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re

Supported to handle your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

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 new heights 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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