Job Description :

Job Title: Sustainable Packaging Manager

Contract: 6 months

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.

Role Summary

This role is instrumental to accelerating the transition to sustainable, low carbon packaging supply across the business, supporting the delivery of our Spirit of Progress ambition.

You will focus on the development and delivery of packaging sustainability projects. You will also support key packaging suppliers to provide expertise and insights to support them in scoping, developing and delivering programmes to rapidly and efficiently decarbonise our packaging.

You will also work with the category buyers to help assess supplier performance and needs, to support the delivery of their decarbonisation roadmaps.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of key packaging transformation projects with a focus on delivering towards ESG and Spirit of Progress 2030 Grain To Glass goals.

• Manage packaging transformation projects to ensure delivery on time, to specification and within budget.

• Work with internal and external stakeholders at a global level, bringing teams together to integrate new and emerging technologies into our packaging decarbonisation programmes.

• Work with the brand and relevant procurement teams to build clear business proposals for packaging transformation projects, provide key inputs in annual strategy refresh.

• Work with brand teams to identify opportunities to commercially leverage new, low carbon solutions.

• Lead the integration of learnings from pilot packaging decarbonisation programmes into our procurement ways of working.

• Support internal and external data collection to establish baselines and support development of supplier, category, market and brand-specific improvement plans.

• Support the Supplier Excellence team in deploying the external supplier engagement programme for the local procurement community helping team members to understand the relevance of sustainability and their role in the establishment of the critical suppliers’ external roadmaps.

• Work with the Supplier Excellence and Packaging Category teams to develop and lead the roll out of priority projects at a supplier level to deliver scope 3 and ESG reductions. Taking Strategy into Action and Deployment.

Skills, Experience & Capabilities Required

• Significant project management experience within a packaging environment, with a preference towards delivering projects focused on primary packaging such as glass, cans and closures, but not essential

• Strong analytical, verbal, written and presentation skills; strong interpersonal skills

• Experience of packaging manufacturing processes or other similar industry processes

• Proven experience in delivering cross functional and pioneering projects at pace

• Be able to engage with, motivate, and manage multiple stakeholders in order to deliver the end result

• Ability to prioritise multiple projects in tandem and within challenging time lines

• Proven expertise in integrating sustainability into the business with integrity

• Be a self-starter with high levels of motivation to work across a matrix organisation

• Passionate about sustainability and creating value through value chain collaboration

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:

International Supply Technical Centre – Menstrie

Additional Locations :

Edinburgh Park, Onyx, Glasgow

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-18

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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