Customer Collaboration Manager

The role offers you the opportunity to work in an international team, experiencing the diversity that is the GT business. Operating in a diverse, dynamic environment, this role functions across a multi-country, multi-currency and multiple time zonal setting, serving a wide diversity of customers and operating in a complex mix of regulatory environments.

Global Travel operates with c.900 SKU’s, 21 sourcing plants and a mixture of primary (export) and secondary supply chains.

Managing the customer relationship to deliver on target service metrics and optimise route to market for our key India and Middle East customers

Work with Customer, planning, Customer services and commercial sales teams to build a robust relationship to drive agreed customer & Diageo outcomes on service, growth and joint value creation

Ensure CS team and customers execute range changes and innovations flawlessly

Co-ordinate necessary in market re-work requirements

Ensure all order fulfilment issues are reported managed and reviewed weekly to ensure optimal delivery on time for all customer orders including order management rules, transport lead time and adherence to Supply Chain required rules(MOQs, CFR, Lead time.)

Ownership and delivery of Customer projects to drive cost, efficiency and productivity

Implement cost to serve processes with key accounts to reduce end to end costs and simplified replenishment models

Review our existing RTM’s/network by region and identify opportunities to simplify/codify

Partner with Global Brands Supply on future tramlining initiatives, own the proposal, commercial alignment and implementation

Define and implement process for ongoing portfolio management to deliver simplified assortment

Drive improvement in key service metrics for GT Customers within Region

Owns and develops relationship with GT commercial teams

Manage GT Inventory levels ensuring SLOB management in control

Collaborate with the Market planning & operations export team to ensure OTIF supply for GT

Partner with Planning and Logistics teams, & customers to identify and implement cost to serve opportunities including INCOTERMS reviews and impact to payment terms

Work closely with central Planning functions to deliver all customer metrics & manage in month demand fluctuations closely with Commercial, Customer, Planning & Finance

Resolve customer specific Supply Chain issues to minimise service & availability disruption

Customer service: Ensure brilliant partner management with and own GT improvement agenda with CS teams in your region

Provide key account insights to demand planning as input to the monthly cycle – changes to customer sourcing/SC’s, concession changes & customer consolidation

Work with Commercial teams to drive collaboration and communication supporting and driving collaborative Customer forecasting monthly with the customers to drive plan stability for supply.

Work directly with Commercial teams in region to ensure day to day delivery of operational needs and to be supply point of contact for the region for non-collaboration customers

Market Share / NSV growth

Service As Measured By Customer (SAMBC)

Case Fill Rate (CFR)

OTIF (On time in full)

Lead time to delivery

COGS (meet reduction targets)

IBP (Forecast accuracy & Bias) reporting increase visibility

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

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