Job Opportunities at Diageo

• Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future.
• Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you’ll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• To lead our Ready to Drink, Ready to Serve and Cider strategy and delivery with strategic partners across SWC. To deliver share and value growth for Diageo South, West and Central Africa through the leadership of RTD+Cider.
• Develop and maintain strong and professional relationships with supply and commercial partners to lead the charge for RTD+Cider market share in Africa, co-ordinate JUBP development and ensure marketing strategies and key performance indicators are well captured.
• Build purposeful and distinctive brands, identifying strategic growth opportunities and translating them into competitive Marketing Business Plans that drive growth and make our brands beacons within culture. Guide and review the deployment of all advertising and promotion resources.
• Use insights to sell more: be externally focused, culturally curious and knowledgeable about culture influencers and use these insights to develop brand strategies.
• Delivering integrated execution: partner with GBTs to produce ground-breaking creative work, guide the team in developing their experience, expertise and instinct to help them make the right marketing judgment calls and decisions at the right time, thereby maintaining focus on high quality, timely delivery.
• Forge powerful partnerships: leverage the power of Diageo expertise combined with that of a broad range of external partners who have the skills, knowledge and influence to help us achieve our brand vision more effectively and efficiently. Manage the senior relationships with our commercial partners ensuring they provide us with the best teams to support the creation of outstanding solutions.
• Driving Marketing Performance: implement robust brand performance analysis using the mix of consumer, customer, and internal and external data to identify the key issues and opportunities that brand strategies and plans must address.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree

Experience

• Minimum 7 years’ experience working in sales, customer marketing, retailing or planning functions.
• Project Management Experience
• Financial decision-making experience.
• Strategic thinking - A strategic and visionary leader able to make bold strategic choices that deliver for the short and long term.
• Commercial acumen – An understanding of business end to end and providing robust counsel to executive team.
• Performance driven - Has an acute focus on performance and results, is highly accountable and determined to win.
• Agile - Demonstrates pace and urgency, responding quickly to emerging threats and opportunities,
• Influencing – can navigate a matrix organisation and build brilliant relationships internally and externally.
• Personally resilient – able to maintain emotional balance in the face of pressure and high-performance expectation.
• Externally focused - Great external radar to spot opportunities and challenges and strongly networked into key communities of experts to understand market and legislation trends.
• Invest in Talent – Track record of leading leaders and ability to build and nurture high performing teams and insightful into what drives performance.

Deadline:30th January,2026

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• Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future.
• Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you’ll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Lead the development of a comprehensive Shopper Marketing strategy that aligns with overall brand objectives and market trends.
• Responsible for the development of all BTL (Below The Line) toolkits and Point of Sale Materials (POSM) for their brand, ensuring alignment with the Marketing Business Plan (MBP).
• Take ownership of the Performance, Ambition, and Review (PAR) inputs for the MBP, ensuring accuracy and relevance collaborating efficiently with in market commercial teams.
• Partner with Brand Managers on brand performance metrics (Product Management Review/Business Plan Management/Strategic Business Review) /Manage agency relationships to ensure high-quality execution.
• Facilitate Cross Functional Team meetings, effectively managing stakeholders to ensure alignment and collaboration across departments.
• Collaborate with Customer Marketing to track and monitor the progress and effectiveness of BTL plans and campaigns, optimizing where necessary.
• Continuously explore innovative approaches to enhance shopper engagement and sales, employing insights and feedback from trade.
• Manage the non-working budget for all BTL initiatives, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and increasing return on investment.
• Maintain oversight of the BTL activity calendar, coordinating with Customer Marketing to ensure alignment and timely execution of all planned activities.

Experience / skills required:

• 5 years + experience in marketing in IPS (International Premium Spirits) and/or FMCG/Luxury good categories. Candidates should have had similar roles in peer companies.
• Proactively defines and communicates growth opportunities. Takes the lead in understanding consumer and market contexts. Finds opportunities and threats for brands across short and long-term horizons. Effectively communicates these insights.
• Consumer Insight: Actively seeks innovative methods to engage with consumers by delving deeper into their motivations and understanding their evolving needs.
• Developing plans: Builds strong plans and briefs based on a detailed understanding of consumers and market trends, with a clear focus on promoting balanced growth.
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Guides the business in identifying and prioritizing impactful growth drivers while discontinuing less effective strategies, ensuring resource allocation is aligned with strategic objectives.

Deadline:2nd February,2026