Junior Manager-Source to Pay - Procurement Operations

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Job Title-

Junior Manager-Source to Pay - Procurement Operations

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:

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

Level: L5C

Reports To: Sourcing Manager_ P-ops

Location : Bangalore

Context/Scope:

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.

Dimensions:

a) Financial

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 b) Market Complexity

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.

Responsibilities

The Sourcing Specialist would be expected to be responsible for:
• The timely management and strategic coordination of sourcing requests (RFI, RFP, RFQ) and eAuctions from the business within the agreed SLA’s and KPI’s
• Looking for and implementing opportunities for continuous system and process improvement
• Providing strong technical support of Marketing category ( POSM, Media, Experiential) eRFX and eAuction with strategy, content and overall event management.
• May provide recommendations on suppliers to participate in sourcing events, based on criteria such as diversity, sustainability, commercial advantage or service delivery.
• Be the champion for their defined area/portfolio of spend, including category and market/country, knowing the right sources of supply, the policies applicable and the compliance requirements as well as the external sources that can be contacted to meet the overall business requirement.
• Build proactive and positively beneficial relationships with key stakeholders, being able to influence upwards

Purpose of Role

The Sourcing Expert will be expected to
• Play a lead role in the tendering process for goods and services, designing the process, launching eSourcing requests (RFI, RFP, RFQ) and eAuction, post-event analysis, selecting the supplier and sign off contract’s requirements (if needed)
• Provide advice and direction to business stakeholders directing them to the correct sourcing channels.
• Deliver their services in a compliant manner against the agreed ways of working, KPI’s and SLA’s, driving an environment of high-quality service delivery and continuous process and system improvements; contributes actively in developing strategic plan to reach target KPIs
• Deliver excellent customer experience and provide accurate and efficient responses within the targeted service level agreement.
• Work and form strong partnerships with the global STP leadership, Procurement, Finance teams and related departments.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities
• Support the delivery of the Procurement strategic plan and seek for incremental opportunities beyond the committed savings target. Recommend new suppliers as needed, sourcing and take feedback on sourcing outcomes to meet Diageo business needs as agreed with key stakeholders.
• Build credible, sustainable relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Maintain governance processes and compliance.
• To develop an in-depth understanding of the key existing contracts across categories. Includes understanding of and application of key commercial and legal concepts
• Managing the complex tendering process for certain spend on goods and services across the countries and market for which they have defined responsibility.
• Create contract as needed within certain defined categories of spend and agreed spend parameters.
• Responsible for driving an environment of continuous improvement, lead sourcing related system/process improvements and projects. Drive a culture of compliance and excellence to ensure the STP process is optimized. Bringing leading tendering practices and templates to procurement and stakeholders.
• Support SE leadership team to ensure milestones and objectives are always met, taking ownership and representing Procurement Operations Team or wider SE scope in projects.

Qualifications and Experience Required
• Degree educated preferably in a business or Procurement related field or relevant commercial experience in a consumer products environment.
• 5+ years of experience in Procurement and Sourcing, including but not limited to processes, ways of working, documentation and compliance requirements.
• Strong understanding of Sourcing
• Advanced business, financial, legal and commercial acumen gained from previous negotiations on sourcing projects and or contract negotiations.
• Strong analytical, inter-personal skills, communication skills, negotiation skills and project management experience
• Proven track record of consistent performance and delivery (what & how of performance)
• Mastery in eSourcing tools, Coupa and CSO will be preferred.
• Able to work proactively and effectively in cross functional and global team at all levels in an organisation.
• Language and cultural skills for the markets supported.
• Advanced communication and influencing skills.
• Proactive approach with tenacity and drive to succeed.
• Solution oriented approach to challenges
• Experience with managing individuals across multiple locations and cultures is a benefit.

Barriers to Success in Role

Potential Barriers for success would be:
• Lack of prior experience in leading negotiations, sourcing and contracting activity with limited supervision
• Lack of project management skills
• Lack of Procurement or market knowledge for their categories and markets
• Lack of experience of using sourcing tools and systems
• Lack of motivation and leadership skills
• Inability and lack of drive to prioritise actions to deliver against tight timelines.
• Inability to communicate clearly and concisely in a timely and professional manner

Flexible Working options / Travel requirements

Hours of working will be determined by markets supported e.g., Europe, Africa, NAM etc.

Rewards & Benefits Statement: (TE)

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 accept 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, approaches, 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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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-09-03