Category Master Data Lead

Job Description :

Job Title: Category Master Data Lead

Closing date: 20th March

 

About the Function

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

 

About the role

This role is part of the European Spirits Category Planning Team and is expected to drive master data governance, influence and action across planning teams to ensure master data accuracy, completeness and compliance in the category. This role requires a thorough understanding of the operational impact and importance of master data to ensure optimal end-to-end planning.

The Master Data Lead is responsible for delivering complete and accurate master data across the European Spirits portfolio. In this role you will work with the planning teams to ensure master data across the category is healthy. You will drive master data governance, ensuring there is a process to review all elements needed for SKUs with the relevant teams. Together with the ERP team, the master data lead will work to understand how our systems communicate to ensure master data is reflected accurately across the multiple systems. You will work with a range of stakeholders whilst being responsive and flexible in your approach.  

Role Responsibilities-

• Data Governance Framework: Adhere to data governance framework, including data standards, policies, and procedures.

• Data Quality: Define and enforce data quality standards, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and completeness.

• Data Management and Maintenance: Support in creation, maintenance, and validation of planning-related master data, such as material master, routings, supplier data, and MRP parameters ensuring accuracy of master data to avoid supply chain disruptions.

• Data Ownership: Identify and resolve data discrepancies by collaborating with key stakeholders.

• Data Reporting: Monitor data quality KPIs and track performance through different reports available in the business. Make sure reports developed are providing relevant insights.

• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with planning teams to ensure master data supports business operations. Act as the key contact for master data-related queries and issue resolution.

Experience, skills & capabilities required

• You are an experienced user of an ERP and/or planning system (SAP ECC6 and/or APO/OMP preferred).

• You have strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

• You have a good understanding of master data principles in planning.

• You remain positive in ambiguous environments and challenging situations.

• You are proactive, resilient and flexible

• You will have great interpersonal skills with comfort in networking and influencing others with different cultures and across all levels of the organisation.

• You hold self and others to account regarding clarity in roles and responsibilities 

• Great teammate - Ability to coach and train peers 

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people 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.
 

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Contributary pension scheme

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Annual bonus

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.

We believe the most diverse and inclusive culture makes for a better business and a better world.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Around the world we have a number of inclusive Business and Employee Resource Groups known as BRGs and ERGs. These influential groups, made up of our people, represent various viewpoints, experiences and communities who generate thought-provoking work to enhance our business and workplace, creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for all. 

Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. 

Join us and you’ll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll build brands consumers love.

We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you’ll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.    

                       

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Edinburgh Park

Additional Locations :

Leven Processing, Onyx, Glasgow

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-03-06